Share your SRHC Conference Papers and Handouts

[Phil]

This is the "official thread" for sharing your conference papers and/or handouts. Please feel free to share a copy of your abstract as well for contextual purposes. If you are sharing a paper, we'd really prefer you copy-and-paste it into the Article Forum right here (http://srhconline.org/hcol/forumdisplay.php?f=6). (Click the New Article button to post.) We'll come along behind you and format the text, so no worries.

Great meeting so far ... thanks Mike & Company!

[Phil]

Honors Living-and-Learning Communities and the Residential College Movement. Rick Scott, Phil Frana, University of Central Arkansas.

Over the past year the Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas has learned that there is strength in a diversity of approaches to combining academics and student life. For one year we followed our university's residential college model with its focus on first-year programs. We quickly realized that this approach did not fully account for the needs of our Honors living/learning program. We no longer plan to implement an Honors residential college. Instead we are going to continue developing our living-and-learning community, and establish our own independent Honors Mentor program. In this presentation we will explain our renewed focus on excellence as the standard for "living" and quality supplemental instruction as the ideal for "learning."

Our handout is attached ... left hand column is a list of residential college characteristics and values. Right hand column lists differences we perceive between our aims and ambitions -- as well as the shortcomings -- in UCA's Honors living-and-learning community when compared with the residential college ideal.

[homerhanumat]

Dear Colleagues,

The PowerPoint of my contributed paper "Four Models of Interdisciplinarity" cannot be uploaded to the SRHC site, but may be accessed on my personal webpage:

http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/mpc/white

Scroll down to "Presentations (Contributed)". The last item has the link to the file.

I have also attached the syllabi for two of the Seminars mentioned in the talk: "Evolution and Religion", and "Genius and Madness."

By the way: it was a great conference, inspiring and informative. I hope to be back next year with a pack of students and some other faculty.

Regards,
Homer

[jrowland11]

Attached are the handouts from the Why Honors Presentation that I was part of on Thursday @ 2 PM and a copy of my Poster and Handout from the Poster Session on Friday.