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…

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…