2010 Site Visitors - Jennifer Lane
| Email: | Jennifer.Lane@gcmail.maricopa.edu |
| Institution: | Glendale Community College |
| Address: | 6000 W. Olive Ave. Glendale, AZ 85302 |
| Phone: | (623) 845-3436 |
| Fax: | (623) 845-3222 |
| Institution Type: | Community College, enrollment 19,800 |
| Program Type: | Institution-wide, 2950 per semester total honors enrollment at 10 colleges (Maricopa Community College District) |
| Program Enrollment: | 652 |
| Present Position: | GCC Honors Director 2004-present, Maricopa Community College District Honors Coordinator 2008-present |
| Previous Honors Positions: | Honors Faculty, English 2002-present |
| NCHC Member Since: | 2000 |
NCHC Activities Related to Honors Program Assessment:
- •Co-chair for Criterion Five of college reaccreditation, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
•Author of peer-reviewed study -- A Phenomenological Understanding of Honors Among Community College Faculty: How Faculty Define and Practice Honors Education
•Current member of NCHC Finance Committee and the NCHC Research Committee
•MCCCD Honors Assessment Committee, lead
•GCC Honors Assessment and Evaluation Committee, chair
Activities in other areas or organizations related to assessment or site visits, workshops, etc.:
•2009 Recipient of NISOD Excellence Award for Teaching in Honors (recognized in the August 24 issue of Community College Week)
•NCHC Presentation: “Identification and Education of Honors Students from Underrepresented Groups”
•NCHC Publication: “The Impact of K-12 Gifted Programs on Postsecondary Honors Programming”
•AAGT Gifted Conference: gifted/honors programming and how K-12 students might better prepare for honors programs and honors colleges at the post-secondary level
•Member of the ad hoc Education of the Gifted Committee
•2-year to 4-year Articulation Committee
•NCHC recommended site visitor, 2006-present
Self-Identified Areas of Special Interest and Experience:
- •Honors Administration
•Assessment of Honors Outcomes
•Diversity and Recruitment in Honors
•Priority Enrollment
•Student Matters
•Student Honors Organizations, including Honors Ambassadors
•Curricular Designs
•Honors contracts, concurrent classes, and Honors only courses
•Learning Communities in Honors
•Honors Faculty Issues
•Diversity and underrepresented populations in Honors
•Research about Honors
On the Role of the Site Visitor as Consultants & Program Reviewers
Jennifer Lane, Honors Director, Glendale Community College
I believe that site visitors are advocates for Honors Programs and Colleges, working to strengthen and enhance what programs are doing well as well as offering constructive suggestions based on shared expertise. Thus, in my opinion, site visitors have a responsibility to be well-versed in the current literature that surrounds honors programming as well as a responsibility to become aware of the specifics of the honors program on the campus at which the visit will occur. All honors programs cannot and will not be identical; thus, it is a site visitor?s challenge to help individual programs determine their own strengths and challenges and offer suggestions that will move these programs toward becoming the best program possible for that specific institution and student population. Though honors programs may have common elements, such as those presented in NCHC?s Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program, site visitors must take care to structure a review such that it supports honors programming within the context of a specific institution as well as advocating for honors students, faculty, staff, and programmatic elements more generally. One of the greatest benefits of the site visitor program is that collective insights may be drawn from various perspectives and differing points of view.