Remembering Sam Schuman

Authors

Ada Long, University of Alabama at BirminghamFollow
Anne Ponder, Colby-Sawyer College
Ted L. Estess, University of Houston Honors CollegeFollow
Bernice Braid, Long Island University Brooklyn
John Knox, University of Georgia
Rae Rosenthal, Community College of Baltimore County
Jeffrey A. Portnoy, Georgia Perimeter College
John Zubizarreta, Columbia College
John Korstad, Oral Roberts University
Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College
Aron Reppmann, Trinity Christian College

Date of this Version

2015

Document Type

Article

Citation

Published in Honors in Practice: A Publication of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 11 (2015)

Comments

Copyright © 2015 by the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Abstract

At the start of his career in 1970 at Cornell College in Iowa, Sam Schuman taught and directed Shakespeare plays, and he also began his long and distinguished career in honors, attending his first NCHC conference in 1974. In 1977, he became Director of the University of Maine Honors Program and, during his four years there, hosted an Honors Semester on the Maine coast. In 1981, he became Academic Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Anne Ponder was Director of the Honors Program. He and Anne co-founded NCHC’s annual conference session called “Beginning in Honors” in 1986.