The Role Of The Honors College

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:

Scholarship, leadership, character and service are all characteristics found in a National Honor Society member. I believe that I possess all of these characteristics and should be given the honor of receiving this NHS scholarship.

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

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.

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

Character is one of the four, main pillars of the National Honors Society. Members of this society not only represent the high standard of academic success, but they are also natural born leaders, serving as a positive role model for the entire school community. Character is defined as the thing that distinguishes one individual from another, which helps us strive to make the right choices day after day. Everybody has a unique character, no two people are alike. But these differences of character are what make people role models.

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

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.

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.

I am a journalism major with a focus in public relations and a minor in marketing therefore I believe the Honors college will enhance my academic experience at Georgia State by allowing me to develop my people skills as well as my personal professional development. The honors college programs do not only provide rigorous academic programs for strong individuals to constantly feel challenged but it also provides guidance to develop individual professionalism ,and I believe both would allow me to grow as a journalism major. In addition, I know the amazing staff that the honors college provides would help me maintain my focus and personal development all four years of my undergraduate studies.

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

Educations role in developing creative and critical thinking places a valuable and beneficial skill for students thought process. Because of educations appreciation to teach on creativity and critical thinking, the three articles give you great examples and insight on critical thinking and creativity. In Laura Pappano’s test “Learning to Think Outside the Box”, she informs her audience that her main argument states that creativity and creative thinking can be very so taught, and colleges from all around the world should apply it to more programs to teach it. Additionally, there are prime examples of such creativity and critical thinking being placed against everyday life. Also, in Samuel Scudder’s text “Look at Your Fish: In the Laboratory with Agassiz”, he tells his audience that the developing critical thinking can be very beneficial to learning, and all students should be taught how to think critical. Similar to both of those texts, Fred M. Hechinger also discusses educations role in developing creativity/critical thinking in “About Education; Thinking Critically” he notifies the students and teachers in the education field that his main argument states the importance of thinking critical and how the teachers are trying to implement critical thoughts in their work as they’re teaching students. While being creative and critical thinking are very important factors skills for your education, something important that is left out of the articles that helps a lot through your

How are you? I have a problem that isn't really a problem, but I do not really have anyone to ask for advice on who can give solid advice. I am in the Honors Program here at HFC but I am running into the problem of they want me to be here much longer than I ever wanted to due to courses they want me to take but do not transfer and they are not offering me a scholarship at a 4.0 GPA so it is coming out of pocket. This limits my ability to take transfer courses at the rate I would like to. Do you think it is worth the wait and cost to take courses that do not transfer and stay in Honors Program or no? I am conflicted on the subject because it looks good if I stay but at the same time puts me in a spot where I am pushing my transfer application

According to Supon, one of the fundamental purposes of teaching critical thinking is to enhance the abilities of students to become critical thinkers. Corporate leaders, educational researchers, employers, and parents have continually pushed teachers to assist their students in the development of critical thinking ability. Critical thinking is a skill that ?involved not only knowledge of content by also concept formation and analysis, reasoning and drawing conclusions, recognizing and avoiding contradiction, and other essential cognitive activities? (Supon, 1998).