2010 Undergraduate Research Conference: Celebrating Academic Diversity Program

Event Program for the 2010 Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) at SFASU

Promotional Poster 1

Promotional Poster for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) at SFASU that sought student submissions

Schedule Poster

A poster of the Schedule for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) at SFASU

The Game as an Instrument of Honors Students’ Personal Development in the SibFU Honors College

Honors colleges often serve as laboratories for pedagogical innovation, where new learning strategies and technologies are created both in the sphere of honors education and in the broader context of universities. This study describes a method of “organizational activity games” (OAG) introduced in the honors college of Siberian Federal University (SibFU) in Russia. The author explores the advantages of the game method for reaching the goal of honors students’ personal development. The theory and history of the game, invented in the Russian school of methodology by G. P. Shchedrovitskii, is explored in its relation to the theoretical principles of honors education. This research shows that the philosophy of games designed to create an intellectual elite of independently thinking citizens can be effectively employed in honors education. The study reveals how the objectives of the game—to develop and study new methods of teaching and learning in universities—contribute to the inventive pedagogies of honors colleges. The author provides insight into the various stages of the inaugural organizational activity game conducted at the SibFU Honors College. Results prove that the game may be regarded as a new method of honors teaching and learning applicable to honors programs in institutions worldwide

For Those of You Who Are Creative

Opportunity for publication in the Honors journal Sanctuary, published by the Southern Regional Honors Council

Diving into Diversity: Opportunities and Obligations in Honors Education: CFP

LU Honors will be taking a group of students to the Southern Regional Honors Council, to be held in Asheville, NC from Thursday, March 30 to Saturday, April 1. The theme of this year’s conference is “Diving into Diversity: Opportunities and Obligations in Honors Education.” Proposals are due February 1, 2017

2019 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Radical Honors: Pedagogical Troublemaking as a Model for Institutional Change

This presidential speech to attendees of the 2019 NCHC annual conference in New Orleans resituates honors education as a site of deeply radical practices and provides a call to action to honors educators both to own the transgressiveness of our pedagogical approaches and to extend that troublemaking project to processes beyond the classroom, processes like honors recruitment and admissions, faculty appointments, co-curricular programming, and assessment, among others. Given the academy’s traditional resistance to change, an opportunity exists for those in the honors community to step forward and radically alter the structures and practices of higher education, all in the service of students and their learning

Dear Honors Freshmen

A junior Honors student offers the Honors Program class of 2017 some pieces of informal advice covering school, time management, relationships, and priorities

Kelly Kramer Nominated for Honors Scholar of the Year

The Honors Scholar of the Year is awarded to a student from a member institution that successfully embodies the scholarship, character, and ambition associated historically with honors students and the Virginias Collegiate Honors Council. The winner will be announced and awarded at the VCHC conference to be held in Norfolk at Old Dominion April 7-8, 2017

editor’s introduction

The last issue of JNCHC (spring/summer 2019) included a Forum on “Current Challenges to Honors Education.” The essays focused on challenges to honors while this issue’s Forum addresses challenges within honors, especially the challenges we present to our students in courses that are designed to complicate, interrogate, and often defy accepted practices and beliefs. The introduction of risk-taking takes this topic beyond the unthreatening and inviting terrain of challenge into a different territory. Virtually all honors programs and colleges advertise themselves as presenting challenges to their students, but few if any boast that they are risky. Jumping hurdles is a challenge: jumping when you don’t know what is on the other side is risky. Risk involves some possibility of danger, and to varying degrees the essays in this issue’s Forum address not just the challenge but the risk for students, educators, and programs in honors