National Collegiate Honors Council
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Date of this Version
2009
Document Type
Article
Abstract
CONTENTS
Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Submission Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dedication to Mitch Pruitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Editor’s Introduction (Ada Long) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
FORUM ON “SOCIAL CLASS AND HONORS”
Honors is Elitist, and What’s Wrong with That? (Norm Weiner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
A Blue-Collar Honors Story (Annmarie Guzy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Class, Honors, and Eastern Kentucky: Why We Still Need to Try to Change the World (Linda Frost) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Two-Year College Honors Program and the Forbidden Topics of Class and Cultural Capital (Charlotte Pressler) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
On Class and Class (Joan Digby) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
To the Charge of “Honors is Elitist,” on Advice of Counsel We Plead “Guilty as Charged” (Robert Spurrier) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Elitism Misunderstood: In Defense of Equal Opportunity (Anne N. Rinn, Craig T. Cobane) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Dealing with Subjective and Objective Issues in Honors Education (Michael Giazzoni, Nathan Hilberg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Does Broad-Based Merit Aid Affect Socioeconomic Diversity in Honors? (Lisa DeFrank-Cole, Rose Cole, Keith Garbutt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Honors Needs Diversity More than the Diverse Need Honors (William A. Ashton) . . . 65
Honors and Class (Bernice Braid) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
RESEARCH ESSAY
Predicting Retention in Honors Programs (Kyle McKay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
NCHC Publication Order Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Comments
Published in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Vol. 10, No.1 (Spring/Summer 2009). ISSN 1559-0151 Copyright © 2009 by the National Collegiate Honors Council.