National Collegiate Honors Council
Honors in Practice Online Archive
2021
Free Minds Book Club: Students Reading and Responding to Incarcerated Writers' Poetry, Bonnie Gasior
Forming Oral History Researchers: Diversifying and Innovating Honors Experiential Learning across Campus, Myrriah Gómez and Anna M. Nogar
Tough Talks: Student-Led Programs to Facilitate Civil Discourse, Leah Horton, Doug Corbitt, and Booker White
Teaching Hamilton: A Team-Taught, Interdisciplinary Honors Course, Rusty Jones and Gregory Shufeldt
Checking-in to Create Instructor-Student Immediacy in Honors, Cadi Kadlecek, Rebecca Bott-Knutson, and Hanna Holmquist
Developing and Encouraging the First-Year Undergraduate Researcher, Stacia Kock and Jennifer F. Nyland
From Program to College: The Vision and Curriculum Evolution of the Virginia Tech Honors College, Stephanie N. Lewis, Anne-Lise K. Velez, Desen S. Ozkan, Raymond C. Thomas, and Kimberly A. Carlson
Creativity in the Age of COVID: Honors Comes “Home”, Ilene D. Lieberman
Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long
A View of Health as a Human Right: A Snapshot from an Honors Program, Peter Longo, Satoshi Machida, and john falconer
Health and Wellness: An Honors First-Year Experience Assignment in Response to the Pandemic, Cathlena Martin
Virtual Improvement: Advising and Onboarding During a Pandemic, Lucy Morrison
“One Singular Sensation”: Integrating Personal Narratives into the Honors Classroom, Marc Napolitano and Mimi Killinger
Founders Award Acceptance Speech (18 December 2020), Jeffrey Portnoy
Close Reading Responses: A Streamlined Approach to Teaching Critical-Thinking Writing in Honors, Katie Quirk
The Role of Admissions Practices in Diversifying Honors Populations: A Case Study, Andrea Radasanu and Gregory Barker
We Found Ourselves in The Twilight Zone, Brigett Scott
Putting Community Voice and Knowledge at the Center, Lynn Sondag
Modeling Vulnerabilities in the Research Process, Rebecca Summer
Virtual Honors Forum, Bruce Thompson
The Video Essay, Nicholas Vick
First-Generation College Student Network, Ashleen Williams and Ainsley Ash
“To Seek A Newer World”: Honors in Virtual Reality, Betsy Greenleaf Yarrison
2020
Honors in Practice, Volume 16 (complete)
Honors in Practice, volume 16, Editorial Matter
2019 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Radical Honors: Pedagogical Troublemaking as a Model for Institutional Change, Richard Badenhausen
Contracts for Honors Credit: Balancing Access, Equity, and Opportunities for Authentic Learning, Patrick Bahls
A Dialogical Exercise for Honors Students, J. Robert Baker
What Works in Honors: Discovering “London as a Detective Story”, Kelsey L. Bennett and Nicole Becwar
Mental Health Matters: College Student Mental Health in the Twenty-First Century, Gary H. Bischof, Alexander J. Hamilton, and Adrian J. Hernandez
Breaking the Rules: Bringing Calculus into the Humanities Classroom, Brent M. Blackwell
Teaching Critical University Studies: A First-Year Seminar to Cultivate Intentional Learners, Elizabeth Bleicher
Beyond Bookkeeping: Developing Intellectual Skills in Honors Accounting Courses, L. Benjamin Boyar
Humanities-Driven STEM— Using History as a Foundation for STEM Education in Honors, John Carrell, Hannah Keaty, and Aliza Wong
Best Practices in Honors Pedagogy: Teaching Innovation and Community Engagement through Design Thinking, Beth H. Chaney, Tim W. Christensen, Alleah Crawford, Katherine Ford, W. Wayne Godwin, Gerald Weckesser, Todd Fraley, and Phoenix Little
A Potential for Improving Honors Retention with Degree Planning, Teddi S. Deka
Undergraduate Research Seminars at Your Humanities Center, Anne Dotter
National Security Council Role-Playing Simulation, Steve Elliott-Gower
The Campus Improvement Project: A High-Impact Practice to Stimulate Honors Community and Empower Student Leadership on Campus, Steve Garrison and Cody Parish
Music in the Holocaust as an Honors Colloquium, Galit Gertsenzon
Emphasizing Co-Curricular Experiences to Address Increasing Honors Enrollment and Diminishing Resources, Jason T. Hilton
The Commonplace Book Project, Kate Krueger
Engaging and Contributing Professionally in a Global Sustainability Honors Course, Jeffrey Lamp and John Korstad
Office Hours: An Honors First-Year Experience Assignment, Cathlena Martin
On Being an Honors Dean, Andrew Martino
A Meaningful and Useful Twofer: Enhancing Honors Students’ Research Experiences While Gathering Assessment Data, Mary Scheuer Senter
Brave New Worlds: Transcending the Humanities/STEM Divide through Creative Writing, Adam Watkins and Zahra Tehrani
Intellectual Risk, Ashleen Williams
Statistics: A Cautionary Tale, Len Zane
Using the Online Forum for Honors Learning, John Zubizarreta
2019
Honors in Practice, Volume 15, 2019
Advice from Reviewers of HIP and JNCHC, Heather Camp
Founders Award Remarks, Joan Digby
Forever Home: A Multilevel Approach to Fostering Productive Transgression in Honors, Richard Holt
Honors Work: Seeing Gaps, Combining Gifts, Focusing on Wider Human Needs, Mimi Killinger, Maddy Jackson, and Samantha Saucier
Presidential Speech, Naomi Yavneh Klos
Editor’s introduction, Ada Long
Crossing Campus Boundaries: Using Classical Mythology and Digital Storytelling to Connect Honors Colleges, Joan Navarre, Maddie Kayser, Dylan Pass, Marilyn Bisch, Catherine Smith, and Andrew Williamson
“Connecting Honors for All”: Reimagining the Two-Year Honors Program in the Age of Guided Pathways, Charlotte Pressler
An Evolving Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar on Science and Religion, Joseph W. Shane
Opening Doors to Engage a More Diverse Population in Honors: A Conversation, Giovanna E. Walters, Angela Jill Cooley, and Quentina Dunbar
Ron Brandolini Award Remarks, Eddie Weller
Sam Schuman Award: A Letter to Sam with Many Thanks, John Zubizarreta
2018
Frontmatter & endmatter, Honors in Practice volume 14
Student Preferences for Faculty-Led Honors Study Abroad Experiences, Nicholas R. Arens, Hanna Holmquist, and Rebecca C. Bott-Knutson
Majoring in the Minor: A Closer Look at Experiential Learning, Bernice Braid
Honoring the National Parks: A Local Adaptation of a Partners in the Parks Adventure, Joan Digby and Kathleen Nolan
“In Landlessness Alone Resides the Highest Truth”; or, At Sea with Honors, Don Dingledine
Becoming Part of a Story, Ted L. Estess
The Fessenden Honors in Engineering Program, Michael Giazzoni
Including Families in the Honors Experience, Melissa L. Johnson
Designing a Collaborative Blog about Student Success, Melissa L. Johnson, Alexander S. Plattner, and Lauren Hundley
Editor’s Introduction: Hip Now, Hip Then, Ada Long
Honors in Practice, Volume 14 (2018) [complete], Ada Long , editor
Tenure and Promotion in Honors, Rosalie Otero
A Structured Course for Personal and Professional Development, Deirdre D. Ragan
Ending in Honors, Samuel Schuman
Honors in Chile: New Engagements in the Higher Education System, Juan Carlos Skewes, Carlos Alberto Cioce Sampaio, and Frederick J. Conway
Ask Me about ISON: The Risks and Rewards of Teaching an Interdisciplinary Honors Course on a Scientific Event Unfolding in Real Time, William L. Vanderburgh and Martin Ratcliffe
Hearing the Marginalized Voice in the Great Books Curriculum, Jennie Woodard
2017
Honors in Practice, Volume 13, 2017 (Complete issue)
Honors in Practice, volume 13 (2017), Editorial Matter
Got Privilege? An Honors Capstone Activity on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Patrick Bahls and Reid Chapman
Academic Socialization: Mentoring New Honors Students in Metadiscourse, Gabriella Bedetti
Critical Experiential Education in the Honors Classroom: Animals, Society, and Education, Nadine Dolby
Best Practices in Two-Year to Four-Year Honors Transfers, Philip L. Frana and Stacy Rice
What Do We Belong to If We Belong to NCHC?, Jerry Herron
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
Leveraging a Modest Success for Curriculum Development, Kathy A. Lyon
Honors Students’ Perceptions of Language Requirement as Part of a Global Literacy Competency, Katelynn Malecha and Anne Dahlman
Interdisciplinary Teaching of Theatre and Human Rights in Honors, Maria Szasz
Encouraging Self-Reflection by Business Honors Students: Reflective Writing, Films, and Self-Assessments, Stephen A. Yoder
2016
Founder’s Award Speech, NCHC 50th Anniversary Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 2015, Bernice Braid
Honoring Controversy: Using Real-World Problems to Teach Critical Thinking in Honors Courses, Sarita Cargas
A Global Endeavor: Honors Undergraduate Research, Mimi Killinger, Kate Spies, and Daniella Runyambo
Honors in Practice, volume 12 (2016), Editorial Material, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, and Karen Lyons
Why Not Honors? Understanding Students’ Decisions Not to Enroll and Persist in Honors Programs, Timothy J. Nichols, Jacob Ailts, and Kuo-Liang Chang