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7/23/2025 to 7/25/2025
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July 23-25, 2025
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Aloft Chicago Mag Mile
243 East Ontario Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
United States
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Contact:
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NCHC Office
hello@nchchonors.org
(402) 472-9150
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Online registration is closed.
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Institute Focus
Honors programs and colleges are increasingly being asked to assess and evaluate their outcomes and effectiveness, and to implement processes of continuous improvement. In response to this need, the NCHC Assessment and Evaluation Committee offers
the Institute for Strategic Planning, Assessment, and Program Review Knowledge (iSPARK) for directors, deans, and other honors personnel that play a role in defining and measuring the goals and outcomes for their honors programs or colleges.
This workshop will provide participants with an overview of strategic planning; discuss the benefits and limitations of academic assessment; lead participants through the process of identifying, measuring, and mapping learning outcomes
for their program; introduce participants to NCHC resources that can be used for benchmarking their program; and prepare participants for undertaking a self-study and external review. This institute is required for any NCHC member wishing
to become an official NCHC Program Reviewer. In preparing for a program reviewer role, you'll get training with working with the components of the Shared Principles and Practices Document. You'll also get practice with writing evidence statements,
analyze sample self-studies and work with mock situations to get you used to working with different stakeholders from students to Presidents.
Learning Outcomes
- To help attendees understand the program review process.
- To understand how the Shared Principles and Practices document applies to institutions' honors units.
- To develop elements of a strategic plan
- To develop assessment techniques for honors units
- To prepare NCHC members to become program reviewers.
Audience
This institute is ideal for directors with established assessment routines and anyone wanting to revitalize their approach. It is required for those seeking to become an NCHC‐approved Program Reviewer.
Registration Information
Institute Size: 20 participants
NCHC Member Price: $625; Non-Member Price: $1,250
Deadline to Register: June 20, 2025
Double Up and Save $100!
Register first for NDI, and save $100 on iSpark registration! Registrants for the New Directors Institute (July 21-23) will receive a code to save $100 on their registration for iSpark (Institute for Strategic Planning, Assessment, and Reviewer
Knowledge), July 24-26.
Venue and Accommodations
The Institute for Strategic Planning, Assessment, and Program Review Knowledge will be hosted in Chicago, Illinois at the Aloft Chicago Mag Mile
243 East Ontario Street | Chicago, IL 60611.
Guest Room Rate: $177 per room per night (exclusive of applicable state and local taxes - currently 17.4%).
To make your reservation, call Marriott reservations at (312) 429-6600 and indicate that you are with the NCHC Summer Institutes or use the button below.
Reserve a Room
Facilitators
Dr. James Williams serves as the founding Dean of the Ron & Laura Strain Honors College at the University of Indianapolis where he has been leading the program since 2015. He is also a tenured associate professor of history and received the UIndy
Teacher of the Year Award in 2016. His educational background is in medieval history with a doctorate from Purdue University and a master's from Oxford University. Dr. Williams has a good deal of experience with assessment,
strategic planning, and evaluation. He has successfully designed and executed mission statements, learning goals, and two strategic plans for his current institution and has presented on these matters at the NCHC annual meetings numerous times.
He is the current Chair of NCHC's Assessment and Evaluation Committee and has served in leadership for the committee since 2023. With some outstanding colleagues, he worked to design the current iteration of iSPARK and has facilitated the
institute the past two summers. He also led the Mid-East Honors Association for five years as its past President and past Secretary. Dr. Williams believes that proper planning, communication, and implementation can transform education
for honors students for the better. This has been evident at his home campus of UIndy where graduation rates of honors students have increased by more than 450% over the last 8 years.
Dr. Amy E. Lebo directs the Woodruff Scholars Program at Emory University in Atlanta, a full-ride merit scholarship and student development program. Previously, she spent ten years as the Honors Program Director and then Associate Dean of Honors
and Scholars at Baldwin Wallace University (BW) in Ohio. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Oregon and held faculty status through full professor while at BW. Dr. Lebo’s career in higher education has focused
on serving the needs of high achieving students through honors and scholars programs as well as undergraduate research programs and advising for national fellowships. Her strengths are in the unification and assessment of program identity,
learning outcomes, and student experiences. She believes that the greatest value of assessment is in deepening the intentionality and focus of our work with students, whether inside or outside the classroom. As a program reviewer
since 2017 and the current chair-elect of the NCHC Assessment and Evaluation Committee, Dr. Lebo has been instrumental in the creation of the new instruments and rubrics that align program review with the Shared Principles and Practices. She
has been on the receiving end of NCHC program reviews twice and has been a reviewer at six institutions.
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