2010 Developing in Honors (DIH)

Developing in Honors (DIH) is NCHC’s annual nuts-and-bolts workshop for experienced honors administrators, faculty, and professional staff. (“Experienced” means that you will have completed at least one year in your current honors position by the time of NCHC’s 2010 conference in Kansas City.) The format for DIH is that each panelist will make a brief (no more than 5-minute) presentation before the session is opened for questions and discussion. These panels are meant to be interactive, so please come
with plenty of questions!.

Opening Session: Developing Experiential Opportunities in Honors

Breakout Sessions:

  1. Enriching the Honors Experience: Service-learning Programs
  2. Honors Housing: Living-learning Communities and Creative Programming
  3. Uncharted Territory: Innovative Study Abroad Programs
  4. Energizing Faculty: Recruitment, Development, and Support
  5. Testing the Currents: Assessment of Honors Courses
  6. Online Courses: Strengthening or Undermining the Honors Mission?
  7. Honors Director as Civil Engineer: Building Bridges on Campus
  8. Honors Programs on Shoestring Budgets
  9. Seeing it Through: Retention Strategies
  10. Tapping Your Resources: Cultivating Honors Alumni Engagement and Support
  11. Innovations in Honors Theses: Overcoming Obstacles
  12. Internal Benefits of External Reviews
  13. Channeling the Energy: Orientation to Honors
  14. Spreading the Message: Marketing and Recruitment
  15. Understanding Variation: Gender Issues in Honors
  16. The Balancing Act: Teaching and Honors Administration
  17. Beyond Honors: Examining the Director’s Role in Local, State, and National Politics
  18. Certification of Honors Programs: Models and Challenges

Potential Topics for Afternoon Extended Discussion Sessions:
Small College Honors Programs
Two-Year College Honors Programs
Large University Honors Programs and Colleges
Research on Honors
Technology in Honors
Assessment
*Opportunities for involvement in NCHC