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• W596763352 abstract "In an anonymous response to an honors senior survey on the question How are you different now than when you first came to college? one student reflected: One of the biggest things is that I am much more confident in myself and in how I want to spend my life.... Also, the idea of Graduate school and the work involved no longer worries me. Instead, I am confident that I can succeed and am very excited to do so. This is largely due to writing for [Honors] classes, and most of all, my thesis experience. ... Overall, I have become a better person. Another student wrote: Before coming to Elon, I did not have a grasp on my academic passions. While here I discovered I have a great interest in issues of income inequality, especially in the case of Latin America, and I discovered graduate school would be the best path for me to continue pursuing my interests in solving problems in this area. The outcomes described in these two student voices represent the best of what we hope for in an undergraduate education in an honors program: the pleasure in discovering one's academic passions; the self-assurance that comes with identifying personal strengths and developing a sense of purpose; and the curiosity and confidence to seek out future opportunities to extend one's learning whether in graduate school or elsewhere. These students are representative of the first class of honors students to graduate in Elon University's newly designed Honors Program, which was revamped to create a smaller, more structured program beginning in 2003-2004. After reviewing NCHC materials and the characteristics of other honors programs nationwide, a committee of Elon faculty, administrators, and students set out to design a new structure that would, as our new mission statement says, prepare [students] to excel in graduate or professional pursuits as independent, hard-working, open-minded, lifelong learners and honorable community members. To achieve these goals, we work to expand students' minds by introducing them to new ideas; improve their critical thinking, research, and communication skills; provide an intellectual community inside and, to a lesser extent, outside the classroom; and challenge and support them in the highest possible academic achievements. The most important and most obvious change to the Elon Honors Program entailed decreasing the size of the program. The new program accepts half as many students each year, striving for an incoming class each fall of forty versus eighty students. This reduction, in turn, has allowed our program to evolve in the following important, interrelated ways, all of which we see as strengthening the program considerably: * the program offers a more structured, yet innovative curriculum; * the program's curriculum now includes an extensive thesis requirement; * the program offers enhanced opportunities for students to extend learning beyond the classroom and become part of a strong intellectual community. In forging these changes, we elected to measure growth not by the size of the program but by the degree to which the new program meets the goals of our mission statement. We believe the program's new courses have created a more consistent challenge, that the thesis has resulted in significant individual learning and impressive academic achievement, and that greater attention to matters beyond the classroom has dramatically improved the development of a true intellectual community. Reducing the size of the Elon Honors Program made it possible to enhance the coherence and academic rigor of its curriculum. In the old program, students were required to take any four honors courses at any time over the course of four years. These courses were basically honorized versions of existing courses, and, though many were excellent and they offered the advantage of flexibility, students nonetheless had divergent experiences of the program depending on the particular set of courses they took. …" @default.
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