Presents a conversation among four leaders of Colby Sawyer College (New Hampshire), who offer a model for leadership and decision making based on collaboration. Discusses such aspects of governance as personal leadership styles, effective work groups, institutional mission, conversation as an institutional style, strategic planning, and change…

A review of the publications of the National Collegiate Honors Council highlights the evolution of themes and issues, such as the relationship between theory and practice, goals of liberal education, the social dimension in learning, honors semesters, models of experiential learning, individual student learning, and the personal and social values…

Examines factors that influence the change process and qualities of learning that contribute to transformation on college campuses. Focuses on how learning communities can create and sustain change, change how participants see the world, and change the understanding of relationships and making of commitments. Sees learning as comprised of…

Discusses how four varieties of scholarship (discovery, integration, application, and teaching) can be integrated in a single undergraduate program. Uses as an example the Honors Seminars, site-specific, experiential opportunities in which students work and live together in an unfamiliar setting with all activities organized around an appropriate…

Discusses the value of travel and study abroad in opening up students to three major areas: the host culture itself, new perspectives on their own culture, and self-learning. Focuses on how the "culture shock" experience can be used for student growth. Provides the example of a short- term honors study abroad program at the University of North…

Discusses connections in undergraduate study between liberal learning and work, including internships, service learning, volunteerism, work-study programs, and students who work for a living. Focuses, however, on students who "work at learning," as a student culture which recognizes that in the final analysis, students themselves must work at…