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Download full textRichard Badenhausen; James Buss – Honors in Practice, 2024
For more than half a century, the honors community has debated the role of standards. This comprehensive overview of those discussions--the first ever--traces the evolution of how honors education has defined itself from its early years right up until the 2022 adoption of the National Collegiate Honors Council's new "NCHC Shared Principles…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Standards, Educational Practices, Educational History
Carrell, John; Keaty, Hannah; Wong, Aliza – Honors in Practice, 2020
Humanities have traditionally played a limited role in STEM education, yet their natural connections may be used to enrich academic understanding and student experience. Authors explore their mutuality by presenting an interdisciplinary curriculum, Humanities-Driven STEM (HDSTEM). Unlike other iterations of blended disciplines, HDSTEM provides…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Honors Curriculum, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Engel, Steven; Keeley, Howard – Honors in Practice, 2015
As universities have made experiential learning opportunities available to more and more of their students, a question arises about what makes honors experiential learning distinctive (Donahue). In the university-wide honors program at Georgia Southern University, authors Steven Engel, and Howard Keeley asked this question about honors study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Research, Study Abroad, Honors Curriculum
Rhea, David M.; Goodwin, Kristy – Honors in Practice, 2014
In 2013-2014, the Governors State University (GSU) Honors Program was faced with a need to evolve from a two-year honors program serving juniors and seniors only to a four-year honors program. This need was born out of the university's transition to a four-year university in 2014-2015. This mandate led to some concerns that the author, the newly…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Students, State Universities, Student Recruitment
Walters, Giovanna; Kanak, Ashley – Honors in Practice, 2016
Orienting and welcoming first-year students to campus and to honors programs are often key components of program development. At an institutional level, successful orientation programs can positively affect retention rates from the first to second year. The greater a student's involvement and integration into the life of the university, the less…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Peer Groups, Mentors, College Students
Goodstein, Lynne – Honors in Practice, 2013
New England University (NEU) provides a case study of the risk that change might undermine an existing university asset in the context of growth in honors; it is a story about the efforts of faculty, students, and staff committed to evoking and sustaining excellence in one honors program to respond to the vision of a new president who placed…
Descriptors: Program Development, Excellence in Education, Honors Curriculum, Case Studies
