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- Title: Jump-Starting Honors Community with Introductory Biographies (Student Recruitment and Retention)
- Author : Honors in Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 184 KB
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Last June, as they descended from the peak experience of high school graduation, the forty newly selected members of the Humanities and Sciences (H&S) Honors Program at Ithaca College received a summer-reading book from me, the Honors Director, with a request for information in exchange: enclosed in the packet was a brief questionnaire about their experiences, their likes and dislikes, their hopes for the future. The questionnaires took only a few minutes to complete, but once the replies were translated into a set of introductory biographical sketches and sent back to the students in August, the information provided a great boost, even before the new students arrived on campus for the fall term, to the effort to foster a sense of honors-program community both in and out of the classroom. Most of the questions had been devised by the Student Advisory Board members as they considered what students typically want to know about each other upon early acquaintance:
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