Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (JNCHC) is a refereed periodical publishing scholarly articles stressing research in and on honors education. Articles include analyses of trends in teaching methodology, articles on interdisciplinary efforts, discussions of problems common to honors programs, items on the national higher education agenda, and presentations of emergent issues relevant to honors education. Two issues are published annually.

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2015

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Expanding an Honors Program in the Midst of Institution Consolidation, Bonita C. Jacobs

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Unique Academic Skillsets, Stephen J. Jerome

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The Practical Value of Honors, James R. Johnsen

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Tangible and Intangible Student Success, Marc A. Johnson

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Honors as Validation, Dan R. Jones

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Homo sapiens, All Too Homo sapiens: Wise Man, All Too Human, Amaris Ketcham

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Assessing Social Justice as a Learning Outcome in Honors, Naomi Yavneh Klos, Kendall Eskine, and Michael Pashkevich

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The Culture of Honors, Susan J. Koch

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Imagination and the Humanities in Honors across the Disciplines at a Jesuit University, Joe Kraus

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Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long

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Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long

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Success in a Hurry, Harold L. Martin Sr.

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“The Endless Appetite”: Honors Education and the Spirit of the Humanities, Andrew Martino

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Song of The Disrupted, Frances McCue

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A Personal and Professional Perspective on an Honors Program, Geoffrey S. Mearns

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Cultivating a Community of Excellence, Gail O. Mellow

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Striving for Our Best and Brightest Selves: Making Honors Central to the Campus Community, Steve Morgan

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Increased Awareness, Increased Appreciation, Barbra Nightingale

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Tradition and Change, Joseph E. Nyre

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Opportunities in Honors for Underserved Students, Baker Pattillo

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Honors and Institutional Transformation, Gary A. Ransdell

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Advancing Humanity though Honors, Michael Rao

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The Impact of Honors on the Campus Community, Larry Rice

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Honors and the Humanities: Necessary as Air and Water, Angela Marie Salas

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Transformation from Within, Jake B. Schrum

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Truman Smith’s Reports on Nazi Militarism: Domestic Political Priorities and U.S. Foreign Policy-Making in Franklin Roosevelt’s First and Second Terms, Sam Shearer

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Scholars for Justice, Kevin W.M. Wildes

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Value Added, M. Roy Wilson

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Honors as Whole-Person Education, William M. Wilson

2014

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15.1 About the Authors, NCHC Monographs and Journals

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15.1 Cover, Contents, Dedication, Call for Papers, Guidelines

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15.2 About the Authors, NCHC Monographs and Journals

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15.2 Cover, Contents, Dedication, Call for Papers, Guidelines

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JNCHC Bibliography by Volume

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JNCHC Consolidated Bibliography

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Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2014 (complete issue)

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Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 15, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2014 (complete issue)

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NCHC Bibliography of Journals and Monographs

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Using Iceland as a Model for Interdisciplinary Honors Study, Kim Andersen and Gary Thorgaard

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Public-Private Honors Success at Community Colleges of Spokane, Lisa Avery

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The Profit Motive in Honors Education, Gary Bell

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Who Benefits from Honors: An Empirical Analysis of Honors and Non-Honors Students’ Backgrounds, Academic Attitudes, and Behaviors, Ted M. Brimeyer, April M. Schueths, and William L. Smith

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Generative Intersections: Supporting Honors through College Composition, Heather C. Camp

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My Objections to Outcome [Note the Singular] Assessment, Joan Digby

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Why Honors is a Hard Sell in the Community College, Deborah Engelen-Eigles and Janice Levinsohn Milner

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Misplaced Modifier: Honors Students and Honors Education, Brian Etheridge

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An Effective Honors Composition Class Improves Honors Retention Rates: Outcomes and Statistical Prestiditigation, Annmarie Guzy

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Honors Sells . . . But Who’s Paying?, Annmarie Guzy

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Learning Outcomes Assessment Misunderstood: Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full, Beata M. Jones and Catherine M. Wehlburg

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Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long

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Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long

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Mission-Driven and For-Profit: Not Mutually Exclusive, Benjamin Moritz

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Teaching Honors Online at a Public College, Barbra Nightingale

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Honors Privatization: A Professor’s and Three Students’ Responses, Destenie Nock, Justine Plummer, Ashleigh R. Wilson, and Michael K. Cundall Jr.

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For Whom the Business Bell Tolls: Honors in America, Jeffrey A. Portnoy

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Collaborative Design: Building Task-Specific Rubrics in the Honors Classroom, Ce Rosenow

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An Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting Honors Program Completion Rates, Hallie Savage, Rod D. Raehsler, and Joseph Fiedor

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Profit, Productivity, and Honors, Sam Schuman

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Civic Tolerance among Honors Students, Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd

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Honors and the Completion Agenda: Identifying and Duplicating Student Success, Jay Trucker

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On Assessment, Imagination, and Agency: Using Rubrics to Inform and Negotiate the Honors Experience, Giovanna Walters

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The Intrinsic Value of the Liberal Arts: Cicero’s Example, Kate Wintrol

2013

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About the Authors

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About the Authors 2

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Admissions and Retention in Honors

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CONTENTS

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Contents 2

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DEDICATION

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DEDICATION

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Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 14, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2013 (complete issue)

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Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 14, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2013 (complete issue)

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NCHC Monographs & Journals

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NCHC PUBLICATION ORDER FORM

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NONTRADITIONAL HONORS STUDENTS

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Undocumented in Honors, Kimberly Aramburo and Suketu Bhavsar

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Predicting Student Success, Ameliorating Risk, and Guarding against Homogeneity in Honors, Scott Carnicom

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John Boswell: Posting Historical Landmarks at the Leading Edge of the Culture Wars, Jeffery Cisneros

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Admissions, Retention, and Reframing the Question “Isn’t It Just More Work?”, Michael K. Cundall Jr.

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They Come But Do They Finish? Program Completion for Honors Students at a Major Public University, 1998–2010, Lynne Goodstein and Patricia Szarek

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The Confidence Game in Honors Admissions and Retention, Annmarie Guzy

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Notes toward an Excellent Marxist-Elitist Honors Admissions Policy, Jerry Herron

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Meeting the Aims of Honors in the Online Environment, Melissa L. Johson

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Propensity Score Analysis of an Honors Program’s Contribution to Students’ Retention and Graduation Outcomes, Robert R. Keller and Michael G. Lacy

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Assessing Success in Honors: Getting beyond Graduation Rates, Sean K. Kelly

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Mothers in Honors, Mimi Killinger, Rachel Binder-Hathaway, Paige Mitchell, and Emily Patrick

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Nontraditional Honors, Janice Rye Kinghorn and Whitney Womack Smith

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Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long

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Editor’s Introduction 2, Ada Long

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Assessing Rigor in Experiential Education: A Working Model from Partners in the Parks, John S. MacLean and Brian J. White

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Factors Influencing Honors College Recruitment, Persistence, and Satisfaction at an Upper-Midwest Land Grant University, Timothy J. Nichols and Kuo-Liang Matt Chang

The Cultural Encounters Model: Incorporating Campus Events into the Honors Curriculum, JAMES PFREHM and ROBERT SULLIVAN

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An Honors Koan: Selling Water by the River, Jeffrey A. Portnoy

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Signifying Difference: The Nontraditional Student and the Honors Program, Nancy Reichert

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Nontraditional Honors and the Hopefulness of Summer Reading, Angela M. Salas

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Improving Retention and Fit by Honing an Honors Admissions Model, Patricia Joanne Smith and John Thomas Vitus Zagurski

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Real-Life Solutions to Real-Life Problems: Collaborating with a Non-Profit Foundation to Engage Honors Students in Applied Research, Emily Stark

2012

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About the Authors

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About the Authors- JNCHC Spring/Summer 2012

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DEDICATION- HERBERT LASKY

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Editor's Introduction