As a National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Recommended Site Visitor, the author has had the privilege and pleasure to serve as an external program reviewer or consultant for a wide variety of NCHC member institutions--large research universities, small and midsize colleges, and two-year institutions--since 1998. His visits to nearly fifty campuses have revealed predictable similarities in honors education at all institutions as well as sometimes troubling variations, as a result of which he has come to believe even more strongly that the NCHC has an important role to play in improving the quality of honors education nationally. In furtherance of that role, the author wants to encourage NCHC members to take advantage of the site-visitor program and so he has distilled his experiences into a general overview in this article, that he hopes will encourage more NCHC colleagues to become involved with this rewarding process. The author has composed a set of practical advice for those who choose to do so.