Program: General Sessions (2014 Annual Conference) Saturday, November 8, 2014: 1:00 PM-1:50 PM

Sheraton (DIrector’s Row J)

Honors Student Engagement and Leadership: Honors Ambassadors

Kevin Baxter, Adrian Modzik and Shayna Mooney

Sheraton (Director’s Row E)

"On Belay" -- "Belay on" - Support and Practice - the Value of Applying for Scholarships Early

Melinda Adams, Christina McIntyre and Adam White

Sheraton (Director’s Row I)

Piloting a Peer-Mentoring Program: Lessons Learned

Teresa King and Dawn Sarno

Sheraton (Governor’s Square 10)

Academic Support and Diversity Awareness in the Academy

Becky Spritz, Peter Deekle, Ross Wheeler, Lorna Ronald and Lindsey Dedow

Sheraton (Governor’s Square 11)

Leading from within: A Team-Based Leadership Challenge for 110 First-Year Students

Kindal Shores and Todd Fraley

Sheraton (Governor’s Square 12)

Translational Research in Motion: From the Trailhead to the Foothills to the Summit and Back

Kevin Stoy, Kendall Bielak, Kennedy Patterson and Alexander Kayser

Sheraton (Governor’s Square 14)

From Guttenberg to Zuckerberg and Beyond: Technologies to Empower Twenty-First Century Honors Students

Beata Jones

Sheraton (Governor’s Square 16)

Why Not Honors? Enhancing Retention through an Improved Understanding of Reasons Why Students Do Not Make the Climb

Timothy Nichols, Kuo-Liang Chang and Jacob Ailts

Sheraton (Governor’s Square 17)

Classic Academic Rigor in the Freshman Seminar: Cultivating "Memoria"

Susan Bachman

Sheraton (Plaza 3)

Undergraduate Research: Beyond STEM Majors

Shawn Alfrey, Amy Eckert and Andrew Wingfield

Sheraton (Plaza 4)

Climbing the Honors College Marketing Mountain: Effectively Using Online and Cost-Effective Strategies to Spread the Message

Nicole Greason

Sheraton (Plaza 6)

Beyond the Research Paper: Creating a Culture of Undergraduate Research at the Two-Year College

Kay Ferguson Ryals, Alannah Rosenberg, Susan O'Neal, Douglas Price and Helen Feng

Sheraton (Plaza 7)

Honors Contracts: How Our Small Program Nearly Doubled in Size While Significantly Improving the Quality of Student Work.

Dave Harper and Amber McGinnis

2014 Annual Conference

November 04 - 09, 2014

General Sessions Saturday, November 8, 2014: 1:00 PM-1:50 PM