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Informationen zum Autor Robert W. Glover, PhD, is an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine. His research focuses on democratic engagement, public policy, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Katherine M. O'Flaherty, PhD, is an honors faculty fellow in the Honors College at Arizona State University. She is an historian who currently researches student engagement and pedagogy and assessment in higher education. Klappentext Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education documents the decades-long structural transformations that led to the rise of honors education while also providing perspective on the present and future challenges in honors education. The chapters address such issues as ensuring equity in honors, how we ought to think about student success and frame this for external stakeholders, and how the diffusion of honors-inspired pedagogies elsewhere in the university forces us to rethink our mission and our day-to-day practice. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen and perceptive eye to the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordRhonda Phillips, Purdue Honors College Chapter 1: Introduction: The Seat near the Electrical Outlet Robert W. Glover, University of MaineKatherine M. O'Flaherty, Arizona State UniversityChapter 2: Growth and Evolution of Collegiate Honors Education in the United StatesPatricia Smith, University of Central ArkansasRick Scott, University of Central ArkansasChapter 3: Equity in Honors: An Academic Oxymoron?Patrick Bahls, University of North Carolina, AshevilleJessica Pisano, University of North Carolina, AshevilleChapter 4: Educating Honors Students for Today, Tomorrow, and Twenty-Years-OutAmy E. Story, Baldwin Wallace UniversityChapter 5: Seminars, Curricula, Rigor: Paradoxical Constraints on the Future of HonorsThomas J. Pfaff, Ithaca College Robert Sullivan, Ithaca CollegeAbout the Editors and AuthorsIndex...
