National Collegiate Honors Council

 

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Accessibility Remediation

If you are unable to use this item in its current form due to accessibility barriers, you may request remediation through our remediation request form.

    Date of this Version

    2009

    Document Type

    Article

    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.

    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

    Download

    Share

    COinS