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Trevor Zink; Andrew Dilts – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
Creative levers for change often emerge in times of institutional uncertainty. As higher education continues to confront institutional racism, honors programs can exercise their power to increase diversity and educational outcomes for excluded and marginalized students, as well as influence related university-level policy. This case study…
Descriptors: Equal Education, College Admission, Student Diversity, Racism
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Joy L. Hart; Andrea Radasanu; Timothy Nichols; Rebecca C. Bott-Knutson; Jonathan Kotinek – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
Drawing inspiration from Dr. Ada Long's (1995) presidential address, the authors describe an experience that facilitates neighborhood-building among honors educators and students across the nation as well as a neighborhood approach to understanding social problems. Focusing on food justice in the first year of the Justice Challenge, honors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Community Development, Neighborhoods
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Mimi Killinger; Abigail Arnold; Abby Bouchard; Katharine Poulin; Gabriella Shetreet; Kailee Soucia – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
A cohort of five students and one faculty member share ways in which their Bulgarian study abroad experience (2024) built upon an existing international partnership and, in so doing, aligned with the tenets of, and goals for, "neighborhoods" as described by Dr. Ada Long (1945-2024). The authors describe lessons learned through the unique…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Students, College Faculty, Study Abroad
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Trina Sotirakopulos – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
Many of the variables that determine college admission are beyond a student's control, including the academic track they were assigned as early as primary school, a practice often referred to as "ability grouping" or constructing "skills-homogeneous" classes. Even in higher education, students feel the effects of unequal…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Honors Curriculum, Labeling (of Persons), Community College Students
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Victoria M. Bryan; Owen Cantrell – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
Dr. Ada Long (1945-2024) advocated for equal access to quality education. Authors suggest that her reflections on neighborhoods, community, and intentional inclusion were not one-off musings but rather indicative of how she saw her responsibility as an educator. Drawing on Long's establishment of a lecture series that brought faculty into a local…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Neighborhoods, College Students, Higher Education
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K. Patrick Fazioli – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
While honors programs have made notable advancements in diversity and inclusion, the issue of educational equity remains unresolved. Tensions between providing special opportunities for high-achieving students and adhering to principles of social justice continue to shape the "neighborhood of honors." This essay seeks to address…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Equal Education, Inclusion, Higher Education
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Joyce Olewski Inman – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
As part of NCHC's tribute to Dr. Ada Long (1945-2024), this response to "Honors as Neighborhood" (1995) encourages scholars and practitioners to (re)consider the problems with conceptualizing honors programs as neighborhoods given the systemic inequalities associated with both. Drawing from experience at an R1 regional institution in the…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Honors Curriculum, Racism, Social Problems
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Katie Carlson-Eastvold; Marc Klingshirn; Elise LoBue – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
The authors describe the shift from an upper-division university to a four-year school and the establishment of an honors program as a result. This essay chronicles the inaugural honors class, characterizing the pioneering aspect of its undergraduates. Reflecting on institutional history and the neighborliness of honors, authors consider the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Communities of Practice, Living Learning Centers
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Sara A. Rich – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2024
It has become increasingly apparent that anti-colonial and antiracist pedagogies are necessary in higher education classrooms, and honors education as an experimental zone is an ideal place to test ideas that can be taken into the wider university community. Honors professors epitomize the teacher-scholar model, and this paper presents a six-year…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Social Justice
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Sapkota, Kayla N. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
This essay presents the creation process for an online honors course in the field of business. Highlighting engagement, critical thinking, and inclusivity as central themes, the author describes the course's inception, structure, outcomes, and post-teaching reflection. The pedagogical framework includes integrative current event assignments and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Program Development, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes
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Snider Bailey, Megan – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
American higher education relies on a taxonomy of knowledge stemming from Puritan ways of thinking and knowing--a disciplinary classification system that sorts "questions asked" and "answers possible" into epistemic categories. This paper interrogates the notion of disciplinarity to better understand the arbitrariness of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
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Singla, Aman; Melendrez, Minerva; Thai, Mable T.; Mann, Sukhdev S.; Zhong, Denise; Hoang, Kim T.; Lee, Isabella H.; Aponte, Andrea V. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
Centered on superiority over a certain group or individual, discrimination becomes predominant in prestigious institutions that pride themselves on exclusivity. Collegiate honors programs tend to deepen this practice by creating highly elite spaces accessible only to a select few. This rigidity can lead to an underrepresentation of historically…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Equal Education, Inclusion
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Chelsea Redger-Marquardt; Jean A. Patterson – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
Atypical in Alternative Break (AB) practice, an intentionally connected course was examined to understand students' perceptions of their semester-long experience. Using qualitative narrative analysis, authors analyze data from 20 AB participants to evaluate student perceptions and experiential outcomes before, during, and after their service trips…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Place Based Education, Citizenship Education
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Kristine A. Miller – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
The National Collegiate Honors Council's "Shared Principles and Practices of Honors Education" (2022) outlines the level of commitment, pedagogical innovation and inclusivity, mentoring, and intellectual leadership that honors programs and colleges expect from their faculty. These high expectations require institutional support…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Faculty, Professional Recognition, Mentors
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Conner W. Suddick; Lindi Dice – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
Despite advancements in global communication and interpersonal networks, in-person discussions and scholarly discourses often falter in the classroom--stifling innovation and preventing opportunities to foster deeper human connection. This study explores the remedy of facilitation: the art and science of enabling a group to unleash its creativity,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, College Students
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