Public universities are continuing the trend of establishing honors colleges and programs in order to attract highly-talented students and provide them with an education that combines the best qualities of elite private colleges with those of public research universities.Are honors programs really a combination of a “liberal arts college in the midst of a prominent research university, with all the advantages of both”? This typical description of public honors programs is sometimes true, sometimes misleading, and fairly often offset by equivalent values that are not mentioned in the hype.W... [Read More]
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How does a parent or prospective student have any idea about the true quality of an honors program, assuming that the students enrolled have met high admission standards? Understanding what makes a program substantive must begin with an analysis of the “ground game,” the graduation requirements, the specific mix of classes by discipline, the total number of honors sections, actual class sizes, honors grad rates—and, yes, the availability of special housing and perks, including priority registration for all courses. These factors and others are rated for the 50 honors colleges and program... [Read More]
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The second edition of the Review offers fifty lengthy narrative profiles of fifty public university honors programs. Each profile also contains ratings of program components, assigning 3 to 5 "mortarboards" (like star ratings for movies or book rating systems), in the following categories: honors graduation requirements; range and type of honors courses; honors class size; honors graduation rates; ratio of honors staff to students; honors residence halls; prestigious awards; and priority registration for classes. The Review has unique data about actual SAT and ACT averages for each program, ac... [Read More]
Note: There is a new edition of this book! The following is a description from the 2012 edition...A Review of Fifty Public University Honors Programs is the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of leading public university honors programs. The fifty honors colleges and programs are (1) within state universities that rank in the top 75 in the 2012 U.S. News rankings; (2) or within state universities that are members of the prestigious Association of American Universities; or (3) have already gained significant recognition as leaders in honors education. The book has 58 charts, including one th... [Read More]
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Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corporations and churches to video games and government, there is nowhere that remains entirely free of their intolerant thought and speech policing.Because the SJW agenda of diversity, tolerance, inclusiveness, and equality flies in the face of both science and observable reality, SJWs relentlessly work to prevent normal people from thinking or speaking in any manner th... [Read More]
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Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education
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