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Research in Honors
Saturday, October 23
11:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Marriott Tower 3rd Floor, Bennie Moten A
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Real-Time Outcomes Assessment in Honors Education
Philip L. Frana, University of Central Arkansas
Utilizing data collected in a four-year study of the transformation of student backgrounds,
experiences, opinions, attitudes, and values at the University of Central Arkansas, a pattern of
selected outcomes will be investigated: (1) critical thinking, (2) interest in and attitudes about
diversity, (3) leadership, (4) moral reasoning, and (5) well-being.
Saturday, October 23
11:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Marriott Tower 3rd Floor, Bennie Moten B
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Seeing is Advising: Using Skype and Adobe Connect to Facilitate Distance Honors and
Scholarship Advising
Stephen H. Wright, Syracuse University
The next best thing to in-person, this interactive workshop explores the benefits of using current
videoconferencing technology to advise honors students in locations all over the world. A live
demonstration of a cost-effective, Internet-facilitated videoconference is planned with audience
members having the opportunity to interact remotely with a student.
Saturday, October 23
11:00 AM – 12:10 PM
Marriott Tower 3rd Floor, Jay McShann A
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What If Students Were People Holistic Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century
Samuel Schuman, University of North Carolina Asheville
How can twenty-first century colleges and universities, and their honors programs/colleges move
toward a new understanding of higher education as the cultivation of college students as whole
persons. Can we imagine new and appropriate ways to integrate and teach intellectual, spiritual
and physical understandings
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