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Brenneise, Coral A., Ed. – 1992
This paper describes the organizational structure, managerial responsibilities, and working policy of the 26-year old Andrews University Honors Program, an undergraduate program that was designed to attract talented and motivated students to the school, and operate effectively even during times of declining college enrollment. First, the paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Administrator Responsibility, College Students
Peer reviewedCummings, Richard J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1986
An examination of the different ways in which the honors concept has been adapted from its elitist British university origins and of the assumptions underlying those adaptations reveals both the virtues and the problems inherent in the Americanization of honors. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Education
