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Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Article
Citation
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (2024) 25(1): 73–80
Abstract
Dr. Ada Long (1945–2024) launched the honors program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the fall of 1983 and directed it until her retirement in 2004. This essay examines how the defining characteristics of neighborhoods she discusses in her 1995 NCHC Presidential Address were embedded in her honors program. As a close colleague and teacher in Long’s interdisciplinary arts and sciences program, the author considers how the characteristics of diversity, sense of personal affiliation and belonging, and culture of caring were woven into the fabric of the program she founded and developed. As Ada’s successor, the author examines the extent to which the original honors program and its neighborhood characteristics have endured or changed because of institutional changes in the intervening twenty years (2004–2024).
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