Roundtable Discussion Friday, November 8, 2013: 1:00 PM-1:50 PM
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Edgewood B)
88 Student Development Workshops: Conference Presentations from Start to Finish
Doug Peterson, University of South Dakota
This workshop will cover how to prepare a conference proposal, prepare for the conference presentation (or poster) and deliver a crowd-pleasing talk (or poster). The workshop will be devoted to individual or small group consulting; come prepared to work on a proposal, presentation or poster.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Estherwood)
154 Honors Dialog on the Many Facets of Sustainability
Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College;
John Korstad, Oral Roberts University;
Tom Pfaff, Ithaca College
Sustainability interfaces various disciplines as it seeks to optimize decisions that influence 'people, planet, and profit'. But is it really that 'simple'?! We seek to have a lively Roundtable discussion that broadens the understanding of sustainability to include viewpoints from biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, math, business, sociology, political science, English, architecture, theology, missions, and other areas.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Gallier A)
155 How to Put the "Joie de Vivre" into your Honors Program
Brendan Clifford, Suffolk University;
Elizabeth Hurley, Suffolk University;
Ajia Zimmermann, Suffolk University
Students will have the chance to partake in an animated discussion that will foster ideas on how to enhance their honors program into a more contemporary and enjoyable community of scholars. Non-traditional ideas, expansion of diversity, and how to have plain old fun will be discussed.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Gallier B)
156 Leveling the Playing Field: Using Verbal Puzzles to Enable Collective Critical Thinking and Diversification of Thought
David Eberius, Salisbury University
Providing honors students with challenges for which they have no prior knowledge forces them to think critically and come up with solutions based upon their own method of thinking. This presentation will be exploring verbal puzzles as a method for creating such an environment.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (Oakley)
157 Our Ultra-Committed Honors Students
Andrew Martino, Southern New Hampshire University
Are honors students too busy? Does honors promote a culture of over-commitement? This session will explore the question of ultra-commitment in the life of the contemporary honors student. This session will be highly interactive, soliciting discussion among those present.
