Presents a study to determine what trends were common and what differences could be identified in percentage of degrees granted with honors. Concludes that institutions must either move into a pass-fail approach with no honors, or return to a more dedicated approach to student evaluation. (Author/PG)

Drawing from a literature review and survey of community colleges with honors programs, this paper presents a series of recommended strategies and tactics for the establishment and continuation of community college honors programs. The recommendations are structured around the five developmental stages of academic innovation identified by S. V.…

The SunCoast Area Teacher Training Program (SCATT) is an honors program for teacher education undergraduates in the College of Education, University of South Florida. Originally funded by the state, but now fully supported by the university, the SCATT Program has three goals: (1) to attract and retain bright, talented students in the teaching…

Community colleges are beginning to recognize that honors programs have a place in a comprehensive curriculum. Community colleges often experience problems attracting status-conscious, middle-class students, unless the institutions can convince the students and their parents that community colleges offer first-rate and academically challenging…

Honors education is not immune from the current controversy concerning the role of the literary canon. Indeed, the problem seems especially crucial for honors programs, for their curriculums are often multi-disciplinary in their approaches to culture and history. The solution may lie in what Linda Hutcheon calls the "poetics of the…

Since 1975, an honors course in freshman composition has been offered at Emanuel County Junior College (ECJC), a unit of the University System of Georgia, for academically superior students whose needs may not be met by the standard curriculum. The process of identifying honors students involves screening entering students to identify those who…

A study was conducted to determine whether the strategies and tactics employed in the implementation and continuation of well-established honors programs at selected community colleges followed the five stages that Martorana and Kuhns identified as phases in the life cycle of academic innovation (i.e., exploration, formulation, trial, refinement,…

This article deals with teaching accountancy but has wide applications. It describes the graduating teaching seminar, functions of the graduate assistant, computer accounting, honors sections, remedial sessions, report writing, and evaluation procedures. (Editor)

In order to examine current institutional programming for the high achievement student, questionnaires were sent to 225 community colleges accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The survey considered the basic concerns of honors programming--organization, operations, staffing, student selection, financial…

The monograph is designed to assist secondary school teachers in grades ten through twelve who teach social sciences to gifted students. The introduction encompasses such topics as the role of leadership, the variability of instruction, and problems in social science instruction. The identification of the gifted student in social sciences and the…

Descriptions of undergraduate physics programs are given: physics with geophysics physics with solid state electronics, physics with medical physics, and honors physics. (MDR)

Based on questionnaire survey responses from 45 Pennsylvania and New England institutions, a significant increase in honors awards is discussed and related to the overall national grade inflation previously documented. (LBH)

A study examining the relationships of student and institutional characteristics to the rates of students achieving standard and honors degrees indicated substantial variations, with some institutions consistently producing more graduates. Students are advised to look carefully at institutional achievement rates, and a review of the degree award…

Examines the recent reemergence of honors programs in community colleges. Highlights the advantages of such programs, offers caveats concerning their establishment, and considers various structural models and special programmatic features. (DMM)

Describes recognization of student achievement as a function of technical colleges, and suggests three feasible methods: publishing the dean's list,'' citing those who graduate with honor,'' and identifying outstanding students through membership in an honor society, such as Tau Alpha Pi in engineering. (CC)