General Sessions Friday, November 8, 2013: 9:00 AM-9:50 AM
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Borgne)
80-1 Looking at Mentoring from Both Sides
Deionta Sutton, North Carolina A&T
This presentation covers peer to peer mentoring programs. As a former mentee and now a mentor, I can describe what it's like to be involved in a program such as this and describe how important it can be.
80-2 Breaking the Ice, "Little" Problems, "Bigger" Solutions and Lasting Benefits: Revamping Freshman Orientation
Jayne Catlos, Youngstown State University
This presentation will focus on techniques, and subsequent benefits, used in Freshman Orientation with attention to the mentoring system of "Big and Little Scholars." The evaluation of the orientation takes place at YSU, with results applicable to any institution. Any working system can always use a little fine-tuning
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Grand Chenier)
82-1 A Practical Guide to Setting up and Maintaining Departmental Honors
Judy Elsley, Weber State University
Why should honors programs offer departmental honors across campus, and how do we set it up? This step-by-step presentation takes participants through the process of establishing, maintaining, and assessing a departmental honors program.
82-2 Honors and . . . History: Building a Departmental Honors Program in a Historically Diverse Public University
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University;
Jonathan Mercantini, Kean University
Drawing on experiences at a state institution with a mission of access and one of the most diverse student bodies in the country, the presenters will initiate a discussion of the challenges of creating a departmental honors program reflecting the central place of diversity in pedagogy and campus culture.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Maurepas)
78 First You Make the "Roux": Blending Pedgogical Ingredients to Transform Students and Community
Stephen Black, Pearl River Community College;
Ben Scaggs, Environmental Protection Agency;
Robert Kroger, Mississippi State University
Civic engagement and community involvement are basic components at our honors institute. Our recently established partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency's "Gulf of Mexico Program" allows our students the opportunity for firsthand experiential learning. This session examines the ingredients necessary to make a program like this work.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon A2)
85 Meet the NCHC Editorial Team
Joan Digby, Long Island University/LIU Post;
Ada Long, University of Alabama at Birmingham (retired);
Jeffrey Portnoy, Georgia Perimeter College
NCHC editors, editorial board members, and Publications Board members address issues that will help shape the future of our journals and monographs, provide information about the publication process, and discuss what constitutes research in honors. Past and future writers are encouraged to attend. All welcome.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon A3)
81-1 Integrating Career and Technical Education (CTE) in a Two-Year College Honors Program
Cori Buggeln, Aims Community College;
Chuck Fisher, Aims Community College
Honors courses traditionally focus on liberal arts curriculum; however, the potential for expanding the intellectual life of students exists in the career and technical education (CTE) curricula of two-year institutions. Such a partnership between CTE and liberal arts faculty can invigorate a two-year college honors program.
81-2 Navigating the Relationship Between Phi Theta Kappa and an Honors Program
John Garcia, Harper College;
Alicia Tomasian, Harper College;
Andrew Wilson, Harper College
Many two-year schools have both an honors program and a chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honors society, on their campuses. There are many areas of overlap between these two programs, but there are many important differences as well. This session will look at the evolving relationship between these two programs at one school. It will also pose the question of exactly what sort of relationship between the two programs is ideal.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon B2)
83-1 Transforming New Orleans through Civic Engagement
Mara Steven, Loyola University New Orleans
In efforts to combat the social conflict in New Orleans, students engage in their communities to affect positive transformation. This session presents not only how the Loyola Honors Program transforms New Orleans but also how action plans for change can be applied to other cities as well.
83-2 Transformations through Civic Engagement in New Orleans and Greater Cincinnati
Ali Godel, Northern Kentucky University;
Caitlin Neely, Northern Kentucky University
Faculty and students from two honors courses will discuss the transformative nature of civic engagement projects. We will highlight how learning through community-based research, service and engagement enables students to build social capital and envision their civic participation into the future.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon C2)
79-2 A Major Breakdown in Honors
Antonina (Nina) Bambina, University of Southern Indiana;
Alexander Hoffmann, University of Southern Indiana
Our honors program has great inequality in the distribution of students throughout majors. The authors propose this may be due to the differential value various majors place on the experiences, prestige, community, and elite identity an honors program offers. Findings from interviews and surveys testing this hypothesis will be presented.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon D2)
84-1 The Role of Organizational Culture in Assessment, Conflict and Transformation of an Honors Program and College
Doug Peterson, University of South Dakota
Organizational culture is the shared belief structure among members of an organization. A 45-item survey was developed to measure overall culture, perceived organizational support, organizational identity, organizational citizenship, elitism and four factors of organizational commitment. This session presents how organizational culture can aid in assessment, recruitment and program review.
84-2 Crafting Mission and Vision Statements: How to Write Them and Why They Matter
Lisa Kay, Eastern Kentucky University;
Paula Kopacz, Eastern Kentucky University;
Stacey Street, Eastern Kentucky University
Representatives from honors faculty, administration, and Institutional Effectiveness offer different perspectives on how to create functional mission and vision statements, and perhaps more important, why they matter. Panelists also distinguish between goals and objectives and offer guidance in creating measurable assessments in line with mission and vision statements.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Napoleon D3)
77 Building Honors STEM in Two-Year Colleges
Melinda Frederick, Prince George's Community College;
Bruce Thompson, Frederick Community College;
Rick Vaughn, Rio Salado College;
Carole Wolin, Montgomery College
Building honors STEM in two-year colleges will address course offerings, curriculum development, and scholarship support in two-year honors programs.
