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Important Dates
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July 30
Plane ticket drawing
deadline
August 6-10
Twin Cities Institute
August 9 - 15
Acadia Experience
September 29
Student of the Year |
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Acadia Experience
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Acadia National Park
Partners
in the Park presents The Acadia Experience. This experiential learning
opportunity begins August 9 in the Acadia National Park, located on Mount
Desert Island along the beautiful coast of Maine. Visit Partners in the Park |
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Student Service
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Students at Hillsborough Community College, Spring 2008
The
National Collegiate Honors Council announces Student Service Day, Friday, October
17, 2008 Don't miss out! Get your Honors program involved this fall.
Mark your calendar for the Spring Student Service Day, too -- April 17,
2009
Service Ideas Include:
-Yard
clean-up for elderly or disabled
-Volunteer
at local libraries, thrift stores, or soup kitchens
-Host a
Halloween party for at-risk youth
-Elementary
or middle school outreach
We want to know what you've done for your community. Email your
service plans, reports, and photos to the national office and we'll feature
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Dear Honors Friends,
An exciting announcement: Julie Maasen, President of M&A Meeting and
Event Planning, is providing two Southwest Airlines tickets for a drawing among
the colleges/universities that have registered a minimum of 10 people to attend
the San Antonio Conference by July 29, 2008. The drawing will be held on
Wednesday, July 30.
The Pre-Conference Program is available on the Conference website.
We are also pleased to announce that registrations for the two pre-conference
activities, Partners in the Park and NACADA, have reached their capacity.
If anyone wants to be placed on a waiting list for either of these two
pre-conference activities, please register for them; those registrations will
automatically be placed on waiting lists.
Yours truly,
Lydia Lyons
2008 Conference Chair
National Collegiate Honors Council
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Featured Conference Session
Developing in Honors
DIH is the annual "nuts
and bolts" NCHC workshop for experienced honors administrators, faculty,
and professional staff who will have completed at least one year in their
current Honors position by the time of the 2008 NCHC Conference in San Antonio.
A general opening session, two rounds of morning breakout sessions, and
afternoon extended discussion sessions will be facilitated by approximately
80 NCHC members who have volunteered to share their expertise and to foster
conversations among colleagues on key topics in honors education. For
more information, visit the 2008 NCHC Conference web page. Advance
registration for DIH is required when you register for the conference.
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NCHC Student of the Year
Now Taking Nominations
Nominations for the NCHC
Student of the Year Award are now being accepted by the Student Concerns
Committee. The NCHC Student of the Year Award is presented to one honors
student who has had an impact on his or her honors program and who has
participated in honors at the regional and/or national level (attending
and/or presenting at conferences, etc.).
The NCHC Student of the Year Award is presented to one honors student who has
had an impact on his or her honors program and who has participated in honors
at the regional and/or national level (attending and/or presenting at
conferences, etc.).
The winner will be recognized during the 2008 NCHC Conference in San Antonio
and will receive a cash award.
This is the only NCHC award designed, judged, and presented by honors
students. Because the award will be judged by members of the NCHC Student
Concerns Committee, committee members are ineligible.
If there is an honors student currently in your program you would like to
nominate for this award, please have your student complete this form and submit a resume or
list of accomplishments, if available. You must also provide a letter in
support of your student's nomination that elaborates on why this student
should be chosen NCHC Student of the Year. Please nominate only one student
for this award.
Please email (in PDF format, if possible) the completed nomination form and
resume/list of accomplishments, together with your letter of recommendation
to Kathleen King.
The application deadline is Monday, September 29, 2008. We will be unable to
accept nominations after the deadline.
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4th Annual Student Auction
Call for Auction Items
 Your auction items are
needed to make the 4th annual NCHC Student Charity Auction a success. The
beneficiary of this year's auction is Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, a
non-profit, multidisciplinary organization devoted to preserving, promoting,
and developing the arts and cultures of the Chicano, Latino, and Native
American peoples through public and educational programming in six
disciplines: Dance, Literature, Media Arts, Theater Arts, Visual Arts and
Xicano Music. (more)
The Guadalupe Culture Arts Center was founded in 1980 and is the largest
community-based, multi-disciplinary organization in the United States.
The Center's Arts Education Program strives to expose the
Chicano/Latino/Indigenous culture and heritage to the community of San Antonio
and surrounding areas by offering classes that serve as a positive outlet of
expression and bring together generations through the artistic outlets.
Funds raised by NCHC students will be used to help low-income children in San
Antonio participate in the performing arts. If you have any questions or wish
to donate an item, please email Richard Badenhausen or call him at 801-832-2460. The deadline to notify Dr.
Badenhausen of auction items you plan to donate is September 29, 2008.
Auction Item Suggestions:
· A package trip to Disney World
· An NCHC site visit
· Certificates to local Washington DC restaurants for the 2009 conference
· A week long stay at a vacation residence
· A tour of the National Air and Space Museum or Smithsonian
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President's Column
Hallie Savage
Summer offers an
opportunity to assess and to plan more effective honors education.
Technology is purported to make educational planning more effective and
efficient but sometimes it doesn't work out quite the way you
anticipate. Liz Beck and I recently traveled from Lincoln to Omaha
but weren't quite sure how to get to the airport. No problem! Liz
has a new GPS unit which she programmed with "Joe the Cab Driver"
giving us directions. We confidently traveled out of Lincoln and drove
another 30 miles onto increasingly more rural roads. "Joe the Cab
Driver" continued to tell us where to turn even though the presence of
cornfields told us we had left metropolitan Omaha. Finally, Joe said
"you have arrived!" Before our startled eyes, we saw a small
airport in the middle of a field - Omaha has two airports! The GPS unit
quickly reloaded and five minutes later, we arrived at our goal - Eppley
field.
What holds true for our short trip holds true for the accomplishment of any
goal. In higher education we are led to believe that technology will
accomplish our goals more effectively and efficiently. Without the
guidance of a clear mission statement, our technology may reroute us.
Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, recommends
that you begin planning with the end in mind. If the goal is composed of
many levels, a strategic prioritization is required.
Over the past six months, The National Collegiate Honors Council has
established a strong National Office and hired an Executive Director. The
organization now enters a critical time in planning. Our mission
statement is our guide:
The National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) is the professional association
of undergraduate Honors programs and colleges; Honors directors and deans; and
Honors faculty, staff, and students. NCHC provides support for institutions and
individuals developing, implementing, and expanding Honors education through
curriculum development, program assessment, teaching innovation, national and
international study opportunities, internships, service and leadership
development, and mentored research. More generally, NCHC carries out this
mission by serving Honors professionals and by advocating support for and
excellence in higher education for all students.
The next stage in our growth will be based on a process of carefully
prioritizing strategic goals. Our GPS unit is the Board of Directors and
Finance Committee. They will route us in strategic planning and shaping
our success. Although we may experience a few missed turns, we are
traveling to successful accomplishment of our mission.
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Featured Committee
Student Concerns
The primary focus of the
Student Concerns Committee is defining the role of students in NCHC. This
committee gives students a voice on the Board of Directors to advocate for
student programs both at national conferences and throughout the year.
The role of students in honors and NCHC is an important one. The students on
this committee offer a perspective that is integral to the support and
promotion of students in honors nationwide.
In recent years, the Student Concerns Committee has been involved in:
· Initiating, promoting, and establishing an auction as an annual event at the
national conference. The auction generates funds for a charity in the
host city of the conference.
· Sponsoring the annual NCHC Student of the Year contest at the national conference.
The winning student is selected by the members of the student concerns
committee.
· Pioneering the establishment of Student Service Day. By promoting this event
twice each year, honors programs nationwide are recognizing service as an
important part of an honors education.
This year, the Committee is engaged in exploring ways to make NCHC membership
more beneficial to students.
Students are encouraged to become involved in NCHC through conferences, serving
on NCHC committees, or serving on the Board of Directors. Involvement
with NCHC is a great opportunity for leadership development and is crucial to
the valuable dynamics of this organization.
Membership to the student concerns committee is open to any student who is a
member of NCHC. Committee assignments are confirmed in August of each year.
Requests for membership to any committee can be made by contacting Lydia Lyons,
President-Elect.
For information about this or any other
committee, please visit the committees page.
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Call for Papers
JNCHC
The National Collegiate Honors Council
Publications Board would like to encourage members to submit research essays on
any topic of interest to the honors community for the next issue of JNCHC
(deadline: September 1, 2008).
This issue will also include a Forum focused on the theme "Honors and
Academic Integrity." We invite essays of roughly a thousand words
that consider this theme in the context of your campus and/or a national
context. Should honors be honorable? Do honors programs and colleges have
a special mandate to ensure honesty and integrity? Do honors programs
experience unique problems related to academic integrity? Do honors
students labor under exceptional pressures that threaten academic
integrity? Should honors programs have honors codes that are distinct
from those of the institution? Is plagiarism more widespread now than it
was before the Internet? Is the concept of plagiarism becoming archaic in
the Internet Age? What are the implications of services like
Turnitin.com, which convey an inherent assumption that students are
cheaters? What impacts have plagiarism and attempts to detect it had on
teaching and learning in honors?
The JNCHC editorial policy, publication guidelines, and list of editorial
policy, publication guidelines and list of editorial board members are
available on the NCHC website.
Submissions should be emailed to Ada Long.
Monograph Series Submission Guidelines
The Publications Board is also interested in receiving manuscripts on diverse topics
in honors education and urges people with expertise interested in writing such
a monograph to submit a prospectus.
Prospective authors should submit a proposal discussing the purpose or scope of
the manuscript, a prospectus that includes a chapter by chapter summary, and a
curriculum vitae.
Direct all inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts to the General Editor of the
Monograph Series:
Dr. Jeff Portnoy
General Editor, Monograph Series
Honors Program
Georgia Perimeter College
555 N. Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021
(678) 891-3620
All monograph proposals will be reviewed by the NCHC Publications Board. A
committee of the Publications Board will review all completed manuscripts and
forward recommendations concerning the publication to the Publications
Board.
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2008 Board of Directors
President
Hallie Savage, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
President Elect
Lydia Lyons, Hillsborough Community College
Past President
Kate Bruce, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Vice President
John Zubizarreta, Columbia College
Secretary
Bonnie Irwin, Eastern Illinois University
Treasurer
Rolland W. Pack, Freed-Hardeman
Annmarie Guzy, University of South Alabama
Greg Lanier, University of West Florida
*Will Lee, Texas A&M University
Kathy A. Lyon, Winthrop University
Jay Mandt, Wichita State University
*Shane Miller, West Virginia University
Deborah Craig, Kent State University
*Roxanne Moralez, Texas State University-San Marcos
Patrice Berger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Rosalie Otero, University of New Mexico
*Sara Brady, Hillsborough Community College
Ruth Randall, Johnson County Community College
John Britt, Lee College-Texas
James Ruebel, Ball State University
*Hesham Elnagar, Northern Arizona University
Richard I. Scott, University of Central Arkansas
*Sarah Fann, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Bob Spurrier, Oklahoma State University
*Student Member
 Committee Chair Retreat, June 2008
NCHC Staff
Cindy Hill, Executive Director (402) 472-9155
Carolee Martin-Brink (402) 472-9150
Judy Smith (402) 472-9150
Trish Souliere (402) 472-9172
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