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Digby, Joan – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2020
Patricia J. Smith's argument for professionalism based on Caplow's outdated model is inappropriate for honors administration. The steps outlined are misleading, and the use of the perennially controversial Basic Characteristics as a prescription for professionalizing honors is historically inaccurate and has no place in framing the future of…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Professional Recognition, Occupations, Ethics
Digby, Joan – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Families, especially those considering sending their children to a private four-year university, need all the help they can get in funding college. Annmarie Guzy's essay "AP, Dual Enrollment, and the Survival of Honors Education" in this issue powerfully spells out the financial benefits that accrue from using AP courses to satisfy…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Honors Curriculum, Paying for College, Cost Effectiveness
Digby, Joan – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2014
Rubric means red ochre--red earth--as in Bryce Canyon and Sedona. Red headers were used in medieval manuscripts as section or chapter markers, and you can bet that the Whore of Babylon got herself some fancy rubrics over the years. Through most of its history, the word has been attached to religious texts and liturgy; rubrics were used as…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Student Evaluation, Measurement Objectives, Critical Thinking
Digby, Joan – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2010
The aim of Partners in the Parks (PITP) from its inception has been to introduce, or reintroduce, collegiate honors students to this country: not the transformed environment that we have constructed on its surface but the bedrock world upon which it rests. Like de Toqueville, Jefferson, Thoreau, Emerson, and so many others, these authors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Parks, Experiential Learning, Partnerships in Education