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Institute Focus

The New Directors Institute (NDI) is designed to help beginning honors directors and deans. The institute will cover key topics of concern, spanning all aspects of honors programming at four-year as well as two-year institutions. The facilitators provide attendees with sets of skills and understanding required of new directors and deans. The participants will leave with a new network of honors colleagues as well as an understanding of key honors resources and organizations at the national and regional levels.   

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 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
• Create an action plan for their continued work
• Assess their programs’/colleges’ existing curricular and co-curricular models, and formulate plans for strengthening their offerings

Audience:

New directors and deans of honors programs and honors colleges

Click here to view the 2022 NDI Itinerary

Venue & Accommodations

The New Directors Institute will be hosted in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Graduate Hotel.

The negotiated rate for institute attendees is $109/night. Rooms at this rate must be reserved by July 6, 2022. A link to book is provided in your registration confirmation email.

• Free Shuttle available from LNK Airport
• Breakfast Provided
• In the heart of the Lincoln Haymarket - easy access to dining and shopping.

Facilitators:

David Coleman, Eastern Kentucky University

David Coleman is Professor of History and, for the past nine years, Executive Director of the Honors Program at Eastern Kentucky University. He has served 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.

Laurie Smith Law, Iowa State University

Laurie Smith Law serves as the Administrative Director for the University Honors Program at Iowa State University, working in conjunction with the honors staff and Honors Student Board to provide members of the Honors Program with an enriched academic experience. Reporting units include the First-Year and University Honors Programs, Undergraduate Research, and Prestigious Fellowships and Awards.   

Laurie has a master degree in U.S. history, but started her career in student affairs as a hall director in an honors learning community, before moving into academic affairs as the assistant director of university Honors College.  She has served on the Board of Directors for the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), and as the NCHC Secretary, and co-chaired the NCHC Professional Development Committee.  Laurie is the co-founder of the NCHC International Summer Institute for New Honors Director/Deans.  The institute is designed to support new directors navigate administration responsibilities on their campus.

Elaine Torda, SUNY Orange (County Community College) 

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.