Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
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Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges.
The contributors document 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.
ISBN
9781475818270
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
City
Lanham, MD
Keywords
Honors courses
Disciplines
Higher Education | Higher Education Administration
Recommended Citation
Glover, Robert W. Editor and O'Flaherty, Katherine M. Editor, "Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education" (2016). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 278.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/278