National Collegiate Honors Council
Date of this Version
2015
Document Type
Article
Citation
From: Housing Honors, edited by Linda Frost, Lisa W. Kay, and Rachael Poe. National Collegiate Honors Council Monograph Series (Lincoln, NE: 2015).
Abstract
I direct a small honors program from my faculty office in the English Department at Mount Mercy University, which is an institution that is outgrowing its tiny campus. It is an exciting time, with new graduate programs and athletic facilities being added. But there is not enough space. At the end of May 2013, a memo from Academic Affairs made this request: “please contact your students to pack up any personal items they have left in the Honors Lounge, as we need to repurpose that room over the summer.” I have received a memo like this about every year or two since I began directing the program in 2005. The university values the honors program, but multiple constituencies are vying for the same limited and precious spaces even as strategic priorities keep shifting over the years.
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