Please read the following before registering:

Affiliating yourself with your institution

If you are not the director of your program, or you do not hold a current NCHC Institutional or Professional Membership, and/or have not attended an NCHC program in the past year, you may not be in our new software system yet!

You must sign up as a "Contact" prior to registering for any NCHC program. 

Sign up as a Contact!

Be sure to select “Contact” when creating a username for our website. If your institution has an Institutional Membership, signing up as a "Contact" will affiliate you with your institution, and you'll be able to register for the online event, and make use of the NCHC community forums. If you sign up for any membership aside from "Contact," you will be asked to pay for that membership fee.

You'll receive an email notification, and THEN you may start registration for the intended online event.

(If your institution is not a member of NCHC, please proceed as a "Guest.")

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

Does honors ever truly have an ‘off’ season?  We like to think every day is for honors, but the summer seems to fly by each year. Join us for a virtual roundtable discussion on making the most of the space between semesters. This event will be hosted by NCHC in partnership with two members of the NCHC Professional Development Committee, Chair-elect Becky Bott-Knutson and Secretary Scott Brueninger.

The round table discussion will focus on strategies for maximizing the summer so that you get the most of yourself, your team, and your program. Our holistic approach to summer planning will get you SET for your greatest year in honors!

Key Takeaways:

• Strategic visioning for a brighter future for honors
• Engaging stakeholders to build relationships
• Tinkering and fine tuning your plans for the honors academic calendar

Facilitators

Becky Bott-Knutson | South Dakota State University

Becky Bott-Knutson is Dean of the Fishback Honors College at South Dakota State University and an expert in animal science and the intersection of honors with agriculture. Dean Bott-Knutson is certified in project management and has substantial experience in agricultural education, research, and outreach as well as in Honors administration. Bott-Knutson served on the 2019-2020 NCHC Visioning, Implementation and Planning Committee for the 2020 NCHC conference and has led professional development programming for multiple federally funded projects. Dean Bott-Knutson serves the Honors discipline as Chair-elect of the NCHC Professional Development Committee and Co-chair of the APLU affiliate group, Council of Honors Education’s Student Engagement Committee.

Scott Breuninger | Virginia Commonwealth University

Scott Breuninger began serving as the Dean of the Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University in the summer of 2020, following nearly a decade as the Director of the Honors Program at the University of South Dakota. His academic research focuses on the social, moral, and economic dimensions of the Enlightenment, particularly how this movement was expressed in Ireland. As an Honors administrator, Dean Breuninger has extensive experience running faculty workshops over a variety of topics and currently serves on the NCHC Professional Development and Teaching and Learning Committees.