The Role Of The Honors College

The skills learned in Middle School Critical Thinking classes would have a lasting impression in a student's life forever. With the added skills, advanced teachers, and motivation that a student gains while taking

When becoming successful in life, I feel as if education is a factor that plays a huge role. It opens doors, which leads to a variety of available resources. I strongly believe that joining the honors college will lead me to the direction of becoming the Accountant I am destined to be. Having the ability to transform myself into a superior individual inside the classrooms has given me the confidence to challenge myself as I further my education. Advancing to the next level has always been a goal for me, and I am willing to put in the time and effort to earn my stripes.

The Honors College at ECU should admit an exceptional students such as myself because I consider my education to be the paramount element for my success in the near future. Although I am a student athlete I never forsake my education for my sport, track, because I know that my sport will only take me as far as a scholarship to ECU but won't be of much help after that. As I consider my education above my sport, I tutor my team mates in math because that's what they have a hard time understanding. Not only do I tutor but my teammates and I also volunteer around the community by raking leaves and shoveling snow during the fall and winter which helps us out if they would like to support the team with a donation. I like to hold myself to a higher

National Honors Society has guided me to become a better citizen, to help others, and to excel and pursue in my dreams. Leadership is the pillar that has changed me the most. It taught to not just tell others what to do, but to help them know how to do their tasks. It taught me to help others and to guide. Service has taught me to help those in need, no matter how demanding or compact the task. I learned that everybody is needing help in one way or another, and most don't even ask for assistance. However, any aid provided can make an impact. Scholarship has taught me that school is what guides us to our full potential. I would not have fully grasped this pillar without the help of my teachers, parents, and peers to support me and cheer me on.

For applicants to the Honors College, I would ensure the most qualified candidates admission to the college.We are not just seeking students with a high academic standard, but someone who can utilize and build upon the reputation of this program. To do this, I would ask a simple, logical question. However, it can elicit a multi-level response from students to see how they respond to the question posed. I would ask the question, “What do you intend on achieving while a member of the Honors Program?”

This Colloquium was important for us, the students of The Honors College, to attend because it granted us advice and knowledge in regards to an issue which is incredibly relevant to us, consent and campus safety. We as college students are a vulnerable population since, according to the information provided to us by the speaker, 11.2% of college students, graduate, and undergraduate, in America will experience some form of sexual assault. This means that sadly we must be prepared to deal with situations like those and to do so we must be informed about what to do if such a situation presents itself. The speaker also made sure to give us advice on what to do when we are not in such a situation ourselves but are witnessing it. Her suggestions

As I pursue my second bachelor’s degree in mathematics, I remind myself that a well-rounded education is made by coupling different subjects like science and mathematics with the arts and humanities. Having a good grasp on different academics is a good balancing tool to create a whole bodied education as well as good preparation for higher learning and career progression. I find that a great way to maintain a high standard of education is to partake in an honors program because it demands much more than its regular counterparts which in turn offers a greater reward of understanding. I want to use IUE Honors Program to help me develop better critical thinking skills necessary for making important decisions when the time arises. Rather it be the additional course load or supplemental instructions offered by honors courses, I plan to use this program to help me map out different insights into problem solving.

From my perspective, I am involved with Crestwood High School, the community, and socially active as well. I participate in athletics such as Just for Kix and color guard. I will also be seen supporting the Cadets at every game possible! Not only athletics, but my high school experience has also revolved around the arts. I have participated in choir since junior high, and joined speech my freshman year. As a freshman, I earned a division one, which sent me to state for both individual and group speech. A rare occurrence for a newcomer. These varied activities allow me to know many different people, peers and staff. I believe that I deserve National Honors Society because of the way I balance grades, athletics, Silver Cord, and my job at Teluwut.

At the College of Charleston, you are exposed to a plethora of different people from different states, countries and walks of life. Unlike high school, everyone hasn’t grown up in the same neighborhoods or exposed to the same ways of thinking. When I came into college, I ended up not following my dream of doing track and field and decided to just focus on my academics. In doing so, I became involved with different clubs and organizations that were heavily based on academics. One club in particular was a honors organization that included a lot of students from CofC’s honors college. During finals week, we would all meet up in the library or go to Kudo for a study session. I remember asking one student how he was able to stay up for such long

The Honors Program student embodies the virtues of independence, academic talent, intellectual curiosity, and persistence. In a brief essay, of approximately 500 words, please tell us how your reasons for admission to the Honors Program as well as your long and short terms academic goals speak to these four virtues. In doing so, you might consider the following questions:

The college representatives are elected, rather than appointed because of the nature of their role in the Honors Program. They are intended to represent their constituents based on the fact that they are in the same academic field and will share similar interests. The college representatives will best represent the citizens of their respected colleges because they share common interests according to their shared field of interest. For instance, a citizen who majors in Mathematics would not have their interests properly represented by a citizen who majors in social work. Instead, the citizen who majors in Mathematics would match better with a fellow STEM major such as a citizen who majors in chemistry, who can relate more to the math major citizen

My experiences and accomplishments throughout high school may qualify me to be accepted into NJIT Honors College. I have learned so much about civil engineering and computer graphic design through my internship at InfoTran engineers. I created models of intersections that would later be used by real surveyors in New York City. If accepted into Honors College, I would be able to use my skills that I learned here to design and create different things to be used in the real world. I have also had experience with web page design through a class in high school. I learned HTML code, css as well as photoshop. I have hands on experience on how to create the bones of a website using HTML. I can use this experience in the honors college because it gives

Colleges strive to implement a curriculum that encourages students to think critically as developing this skill is crucial for them to be able to evaluate information from various perspectives through questioning to arrive at a conclusion. Since applying the familiar to the unfamiliar, analyzing situations from different points of views and digging under the surface level are skills that require practice to be learned, critical thinking should be tightly weaved into the reading and writing aspects of each course in college. According to The Perry Model of Intellectual and Ethical Development, students begin with dualistic thinking and “generally believe knowledge is certain and unambiguous” (Thoma). This explains how some people are afraid to think critically, because they are stuck with the mindset that there is only a right or wrong answer. As the students advance each stage in the Perry Model, they begin to accept multiple contexts and eventually come to accept the lack of certainty in the world. The need for answers from teachers or authority diminishes, and students realize the need to use complex reasoning to understand the uncertainties of the world instead. Hence, critical thinking skills develop over time, in which teachers act as catalysts for students to step out of their comfort zones. If

Teaching higher order thinking skills is not a recent need. It is apparent that students, at all levels of education, are lagging in problem-solving and thinking skills. Fragmentation of thinking skills, however, may be the result of critical thinking courses and texts. Every course, especially in content subjects, students should be taught to think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate.

Dr. Facione points out a great point that correlates intelligence with critical thinking, as we need critical thinking to be an intellectual being. Facione shows his credibility through the use of an experiment that had taken place previously, and in this experiment college students GPA are compared to their level of critical thinking, proving that the advanced use of critical thinking directly correlates with a higher GPA; showing Facione was right about his idea of why we should teach critical teaching before collage, as it will improve performance (What And Why 10). Critical thinking should not stop being taught after high school, but should continue to be taught in college, as professors should encourage and promote the use of critical thinking through activity in the classroom, either through discussion, projects that require deep thought, or activities throughout campus that may seem abstract and require an great amount of thought in order to discover the meaning (Facione 11). Facione goes on to discuss a liberal education,