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*Members receive a 50% discount on NCHC Summer Institute Registration pricing! Register before May 1 and Save an Extra $50 on your registration fee!

*Register before May 1 and Save an Extra $50 on your registration fee!*

Institute Focus:

The NCHC New Directors Institute provides new honors directors and deans with best practices in curricular management and research, based on shared experiences from NCHC colleagues. Participants will take part in virtual nuts-and-bolts sessions including:

• Developing your honors program
• Creating budgets and curricula
• Addressing staffing /administration issues in honors
• Identifying key resources and allies on campus
• Form lasting connections with a network of peers who will serve as a continuing resource in their work

This immersive honors experience will prepare you to be successful in your new position as an honors administrator. Sessions include individual consultation as time permits.

Learning objectives/outcomes for the New Directors’ Institute

Participants will:

• Articulate points of alignment between their own honors program’s/college’s mission and their broader institutional contexts
• Identify challenges and develop strategies regarding administrative responsibilities, including budgeting, program management, and student and faculty recruitment
• Assess their programs’/colleges’ existing curricular and co-curricular models, and formulate plans for strengthening their offerings
• Create an action plan for their continued work

Need to justify how you could benefit from attending this institute? Try downloading this letter to submit to your administration:

New Directors Institute Justification of Attendance 

Facilitators

François Amar, University of Maine

 François G. Amar is professor of chemistry and a member of the Honors faculty at the University of Maine. From 2013-2020 he served as dean of UMaine's Honors College. He has worked on issues of active learning in STEM and peer learning across the curriculum as well as collaborative frameworks for interdisciplinary research. In his spare time, he bakes and brews, cycles and hikes, and writes poetry.

David Coleman, Eastern Kentucky University

David Coleman is Professor of History and, for the past eight years, Executive Director of the Honors Program at Eastern Kentucky University. He has served for the past four years as Treasurer of the Southern Regional Honors Council, and has also served on the NCHC’s Awards and Grants Committee as well as the Finance Committee.  He is an approved NCHC External Reviewer, and has published articles in the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council as well as the NCHC monograph series. For the past five years, he has served as a group leader in the “Beginning in Honors” track at the annual NCHC conference. As a faculty member who taught regularly in honors for fourteen years before becoming EKU’s lead honors administrator in 2013, he is a passionate advocate for honors students and honors education on his own campus as well as regionally and nationally.

Lynn Preston, Tarrant County College District

Lynn Preston is a professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Tarrant County College in the great state of Texas! She has 

been the director of the Cornerstone Honors Program on the NW campus since 2009. She is also the liaison for the multi-campus honors program having five campuses to the college. In 2012 the honors program was only on two of the five campuses and Lynn was instrumental in establishing the program on the other three campuses in the district. In 2010 she was on the committee to turn the honors program into an actual honors A.A. degree. Lynn has served on NCHC Board of Directors, co-chaired the NCHC Professional Development Committee, and is very active in GPHC. She has given a few seminars on starting an honors program/pedagogy for honors over the years and has facilitated New Directors Institute for several summers focusing on the two-year honors program.

Aron Reppmann, Trinity Christian College

Aron Reppmann is professor of philosophy at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois. He was the founding director of TCC’s Honors Program. After directing that program for 13 years, from its initial launch through growth and change to its first thorough review, he stepped aside from directing honors to work on faculty development college-wide, in particular the formation of new faculty, a shift that coincided with his becoming co-director of NCHC’s signature program “Beginning in Honors.” He continues to teach in the Honors Program at Trinity, and his ongoing scholarly work in honors education is particularly oriented to the relationship between spirituality and vocation in honors students from a wide variety of social and religious backgrounds.

Refunds

All requests for refunds MUST be submitted in writing to the national office and RECEIVED no later than seven days in advance of the NCHC Summer Institute.

• Received prior to 7 days before Institute:          Full refund, less a $50 per person administrative fee
• Received within 7 days before Institute:            No refunds granted

Questions? Contact the NCHC office at (402) 472-9150 or nchc@unl.edu.