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Schlange, Jacob R.; Burnett, Tamy – Honors in Practice, 2023
Precipitated by a surge in enrollment, authors describe the three-phase revision (2017-2021) of a first-year peer mentoring program in honors. Grounded in student input and leadership, large-scale programmatic changes involve curriculum expansion, student leadership development, and co-curricular experiential support. Program objectives,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Peer Teaching, Mentors, Leadership Training
Horton, Leah; Conrad, Aaron; Smith, Patricia J. – Honors in Practice, 2023
While the conversation in honors about the mental health of students has persisted for over two decades, authors identify a marked increase in the need for student mental health support since the first Generation Z students entered college in 2015. A review of literature in honors indicates upticks in discourse relating to mental health (tn = 66)…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Well Being, Honors Curriculum, Coaching (Performance)
Riley, Holly; Spurling, Brenna – Honors in Practice, 2023
Peer review exercises are an essential part of many educational pedagogy models and have been shown to successfully provide undergraduate students with requisite active learning and critical reflection skills. Teaching the peer review process in an interdisciplinary honors research methods course, however, presents its own set of challenges. As…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Honors Curriculum, Peer Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
García, María Luz; Shafi, Sarah; Smith, Camryn; Stadnik, Valentyna – Honors in Practice, 2023
During the period of remote learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, honors programs were forced to innovate new digital possibilities for fulfilling the objectives of an honors education. Learning experiences offered during study abroad programs were among the most difficult to provide in a virtual format. The honors program at Eastern Michigan…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Carrell, John D.; Weiner, Robert G. – Honors in Practice, 2023
Engineering and pop-culturist instructors team-teach a first-year experience course exploring science through the lenses of history, literature, film, television, and sequential art. Authors present science fiction discourses as unique for synthesizing fields in the humanities and STEM, and they present curricular and co-curricular design…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approach, First Year Seminars
Gross, Rachel S.; Benes, Kylla; Collins, Lauren; Riley, Holly – Honors in Practice, 2023
Authors examine the impact of honors education on four early career scholars who each spent two years in a postdoctoral position (2017-2023), highlighting how initial in-depth exposure to honors curricula and culture positively influences professional identity and teaching practice. Fellowships in a Teaching, Research, and Mentoring (TRM) Program…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Outcomes of Education, Postdoctoral Education, Professional Identity
Garrison, Steve – Honors in Practice, 2022
Amid social distancing restrictions, community gardening becomes a focal point of one honors program. While providing fresh produce to the campus food pantry, this student-run initiative generates a new setting for experiential and service learning.
Descriptors: Gardening, Honors Curriculum, Experiential Learning, Service Learning
Hardy, Richard J.; Schlag, Paul A.; Boeckelman, Keith – Honors in Practice, 2022
The United States Constitution is the bedrock upon which government and society rest, yet its precepts remain generally unfamiliar to contemporary college students. Considering the extent of its impact and the misinformation regarding its purpose, content, efficacy, and limits, the authors provide suggestions for civic learning based on this…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Civics, United States History, Constitutional Law
Gutiérrez, Michael Carlos – Honors in Practice, 2022
This study explores the experience of high-achieving students of color in an honors program at a large research university. Qualitative methods involve surveying students (n = 39) and interviewing a select group (n = 5) in attempts to measure both the frequency and severity of racial microaggression as well as subjective experience relating to…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Students, Minority Group Students, Student Attitudes
Cepek, Rebecca – Honors in Practice, 2022
A literary dictionary assignment provides honors students with an understanding of the ways knowledge shifts and changes over time as well as an opportunity to create knowledge rather than just recall correct answers.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Assignments, Dictionaries, Definitions
Swanson, Nathan W. – Honors in Practice, 2022
A series of courses on the Evolution of Ideas introduces interdisciplinary study, develops collaborative discourse, and promotes a sense of community among first-year honors students. The curriculum encourages faculty to use a range of strategies to help students understand an idea and its history while also fostering awareness as to its social,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning, Cartography
Rager, Lexi; Hartup, Mollie – Honors in Practice, 2022
Authors describe how a summer respite introduces alternative ways and spaces in which to work, positing how collaborative discourse and dismantled hierarchies can affect positive change and productive outcomes for honors programs.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Summer Programs, Nontraditional Education, Curriculum Development
Decker, Teagan; Hicks, Scott – Honors in Practice, 2022
Authors describe course-embedded research experiences at a diverse, rural, regional university. Emphasizing the capacity for conventional teaching and learning in first-year honors composition, these experiences provide relationship-rich education through faculty and peer mentorships. Positing that first-year honors composition is undervalued as a…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Freshman Composition, Mentors, Disproportionate Representation
Bhavsar, Suketu P.; Granger, Jill; Marsh, Marlee; Means, Matthew; Zubizarreta, John – Honors in Practice, 2022
Authors reflect on ways that honors practitioners have experienced various professional transitions and provide insights to help others successfully manage such changes.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Educational Change, Program Administration, College Faculty
Centofanti, Julie; Hartup, Mollie – Honors in Practice, 2022
Community is a foundational element in honors education. During the global pandemic, students reimagined ways to connect in order to build community and serve one another. Authors describe a virtual collaboration in transcription, where honors students gathered to participate in digital transcribe-a-thons. These informal groupings evolved into a…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Sense of Community, Clubs, Transcripts (Written Records)