Thursday, November 5, 2009

University of Washingon Honors Report: Is it worth it? I don't think so.

See the committee report:  http://www.washington.edu/about/accreditation/reviews/honors2.pdf
I nearly signed up to go to the UW honors night before I looked into the program, and figure out what was really going on. Sure, if you're kid is high-performing, why not put in a little extra effort and say you graduated with honors? Well I found the study that said among other things:

* Only about 10% of those who apply even get in. It's even harder to get into than Stanford

* Fewer than half finish all the requirements

* It needs a LOT more funding to increase the number of students, and the support of the students who are already in

* Students find it hard to meet all the normal requirements (as if a UW engineering diploma didn't already tell you you're a

glutton for punishment) plus the honors requirements

* Some departments didn't "do a very good job" of workign in honors requirements with their own.

I smelled a lot like IB which is signing up to go to school "in hell" like the 300 warriors. IB is supposed to be for everybody, just like WASL and OBE, but actually only works as a program for elites, and is treated as an elite programby college admissions, but that's another topic.

So my conclusion is it worth piling on a bunch of extra work and slogging through hell so that your diploma gets a little gold star that says "honors"? No thank you.

This is a symptom of that same "higher standard" mania that ed reform suffers from. The idea of instead of mastering basics to 99.99%, you pile on as much stuff that will make your resume look good and make it look like your kids went through as much stress as possible. This is a very, very bad turn compared to when we went through college in the 70s.

highlights:

NOT FUNDED OR ENOUGH FACULTY INVOLVED TO REALLY WORK

The current sporadic involvement of faculty in the Honors community is symptomatic of a program without a firm identity as an independent unit and without enough budgetary resources to ensure stable and continuing faculty involvement



ONLY ADMITS 8% OF APPLICANTS, HARDER TO GET IN THAN STANFORD

The existing program annually serves 200 new students out of an applicant pool of about 2500. The Honors Program is thus forced to refuse access annually to many hundreds of the best-qualified student applicants to the UW. For many of these students who are considering a range of opportunities, being admitted to the Honors Program is a prerequisite for considering the UW at all. When they are refused admission (note: this year, it was harder to gain admission to UW Honors than to Stanford!), they subsequently decline to enter the UW. This is a serious loss to the University as a whole



NO REGULAR FUNDING FOR HONORS COURSES
the program of courses for the Honors Program students could be significantly improved by establishment of systematic offerings in core areas, presented on a regular basis (see section #3). The present underfunding of the program, and its lack of faculty resources, is a part of the root of this issue


Consider exempting Honors students from all general education requirements. With appropriate faculty guidance, Honors students should be able to design their own path to the degree, once enough Honors options are in place.



NOT ATTRACTIVE TO UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS (MINORITY)



make special efforts to identify courses in the curriculum, suitable for Honors credit that typically attract underrepresented students.



NEEDS MORE MONEY FOR MORE FACULTY AND ADVISORS



The question remains how to fund the Honors Program in a rational way, both it its present configuration, and in growth mode. A rough formula for thinking about resource implications might be as follows: For every additional 100 incoming Honors students, 4 additional faculty positions and 1 additional adviser are required. This is roughly equivalent to a $400,000 allocation.



NEEDS BIG INCREASE IN BUDGET (DREAM ON)



Fund the Honors Program/College appropriately. We know that the necessary funding cannot appear over night and may well be dependent on a major endowment gift. Nevertheless an increase in the permanent budget must happen in the new biennium.





NEEDS ITS OWN COLLEGE



the UW should work towards creating an Honors College. An Honors College gives the Head of the Honors Program

the standing of an independent Dean who is able to work with, negotiate and if need be arm wrestle as an equal with other Deans.



NOT ENOUGH INCENTIVES TO ATTRACT FACULTY - BEGGING BOWL



there are too few tenured or tenure-track faculty involved in the Honors Program at any level – teaching courses, providing governance and oversight, offering innovative directions. Even to remain at the present size, this problem simply must be addressed. There are two fundamental aspects to the problem: regularizing faculty involvement, and paying for it. At present, it is largely an ad hoc system (a begging bowl system, in more colorful terms): the Honors staff asks either for a gift of teaching (faculty teach as an overload) or offers chairs a graduate student stipend in return for a faculty ember’s commitment. Or a home department receives nothing in exchange for faculty teaching in the Honors Program



There are considerable structural impediments to students who wish to graduate with Honors, and they reflect the state of relations between University Honors and Departmental Honors. This relationship is characterized by an absence of communication, a lack of coordinated planning, inadequate resources both at the University and departmental levels, and obstructionist rules governing the designation of honors at graduation. It should be noted that, under the present system, students cannot graduate with honors unless they complete both University and departmental honors requirements.



The Honors Program has a triple mission: (1) to recruit and admit top students into the Honors Program; (2) to provide a very high quality, interdisciplinary general education, especially in the first two years; and (3) to provide encouragement, advising, and pathways for students to graduate from the UW with Honors. As we discovered, certain elements of this mission are adequately served by the present organization and structure, while others are not.



SENIOR THESIS DIFFICULT TO FIND FACULTY MENTOR OR NOT APPROPRIATE



many College Honors students find the Senior Thesis Requirement difficult to achieve as each student must find a willing and qualified faculty mentor, or the Thesis is not an appropriate format for a culminating project. Students who do not complete an Honors thesis graduate with no accolade of College Honors on their transcripts.



THESIS BOTTLENECK MAJOR FACTOR IN 46% 1-IN-2 ATTRITION RATE FOR HONORS



This bottle neck is a major factor contributing to the 46% attrition rate of students from the program...The completion of lower division honors course work and the Senior Thesis is a good path but currently the ONLY path



HONORS SUPPORT GREAT IN MATHEMATICS, BUT POOR IN SCIENCES



there is excellent participation by some departments (notably mathematics) in the Honors Program but not by others. The sciences are particularly poorly represented.



TOUGH TO MEET COMBINED DEPARTMENT AND HONORS REQUIREMENTS IN YEARS 3 AND 4



In their third and fourth years many Honors students experience difficulty in meeting departmental major requirements and continuing to meet the requirements for the Honors Program. Coordination and cooperation between departments and the Honors Program could relieve most of these problems



ELITE PROGRAM LACKING IN UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES



that the Honors Program suffers from the same lack of diversity as the rest of the University, something which should be addressed.





University of Washington

Report of the Honors Program Review Committee



Date of Site Visit: April 28-29, 2005



Date of Report: June 23, 2005



Contents:



Charge and Procedure p. 1



Overview p. 3



Critical Issue One p. 4



Critical Issue Two p. 5



Critical Issue Three p. 8



Critical Issue Four p. 11



Conclusion p. 17



Appendix A: Summary of Recommendations



Charge and Procedure



The Honors Program Review Committee was appointed in February 2005 by Elizabeth L.



Feetham, Acting Dean of the Graduate School, for the purpose of assessing the quality



and health of the Honors Program. This is the first time in its 45 year history that the



Honors Program has had a formal review. It was requested by Honors Program Director,



Professor Shawn Wong.



The members of the committee are:



Sarah Nash Gates, Executive Director and Professor, School of Drama



Enrique Bonus, Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies



Debra Friedman, Director of Special Projects, Development and Alumni Relations



A.O. Dennis Willows, Professor, Biology



Cheryl Achtenberg, Dean of the Schreyer Honors College, Professor of Nutrition,



Affiliate Professor Information Sciences and Technology and Education Theory



and Policy, Pennsylvania State University.



G. Jennifer Wilson, Assistant Vice Provost and Director of the Honors College,



University of California, Los Angeles



The committee was charged with the task of assessing the academic and administrative



quality of the Honors Program, its role in undergraduate education at the UW and with



providing advice as to how it might be improved. On March 11, 2005 the UW members



of the committee, Bonus, Friedman and Gates, met with Gail L. Dubrow, Associate Dean



of the Graduate School for Academic Programs. UW Committee member A. O. Dennis



Willows was unable to attend. Also in attendance were: Acting Dean of the Graduate



School Elizabeth Feetham, Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education George



Bridges, Divisional Dean for the Arts and Humanities Michael Halleran, Vice Provost



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Susan Jeffords, and David Canfield-Budde Assistant to Dean Dubrow. Dean Dubrow



led a detailed conversation regarding the goals for the review. We also outlined



information and materials needed from the Honors Program as well as processes for



gathering input from the campus community. This meeting was summarized by Dean



Dubrow in her change letter to the committee of March 23.



As was suggested in the charge letter the UW committee members met with the Honors



Director and Staff, members of the administration of the Office of Undergraduate



Education, a former Director of the Honors Program, Divisional Dean Michael Halleran



and the Director and Associate Director of the Robinson Center for Young Scholars. We



also met with some faculty members of the Honors Council and Student Honors Council



members. Not all of the UW members were able to attend every session. However care



was taken to share the information between committee members.



With the able assistance of David Canfield-Budde, Assistant to Dean Dubrow, a survey



was sent to current Honors Students (1040 University Honors, 511 Departmental Honors,



94 Academy, 34 Robinson Ctr.) and the 76 faculty who have taught in the Honors



Program in the past 2 years. 1176 non-Honors students with GPA’s of 3.8 and above



were also surveyed. The committee also indicated its willingness to meet privately with



any interested party or to receive email or other written communication.



The committee received a self study from the Honors Program which included:



1. Overview, mission, history and values



2. Program Organization



3. Students



4. Curriculum and Teaching



5. Evaluation and Assessment



6. Diversity



7. Development



8. Conclusion



Appendix:



A. Core Curriculum and Requirements, Summary of Teaching Evaluations



B. Admission and Graduation Statistics



C. General Information and Annual Report



D. Publicity



E. Peer Institution Comparison



F. National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Information



G. “An Honors Program for the Twenty First Century” “Honors Retreat Notes: 1999”



H. HEC Board Summary



The Self Study clearly communicated many facts and figures as well as the history of the



Program. However, it was noted at the outset that many questions which one might



expect a unit to have addressed were not. A primary example is that the Honors Program



did not appear to have a clear vision of itself. As the review progressed the wisdom of



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Director Wong’s request for a formal review before these questions were fully answered



became more apparent. The Honors Program is not as independent a unit as an academic



department and requires many others to participate in determining its future.



On April 28 and 29 the full committee conducted the formal site visit, which included



meetings with Director Shawn Wong, the staff of the Honors Program, faculty, students,



and the Acting Dean of Undergraduate Education, as well as a tour of the Honors Suite in



Mary Gates Hall and the Honors Dorm, 2 floors in McCarty Hall. The committee had



informal conversations at meals and in formal executive session, followed by the exit



interview with representatives of the Graduate School, College of Arts and Sciences and



the Provost’s Office. Unfortunately the Acting Dean of the College of Undergraduate



Education had a family emergency and was not available. (Schedule attached.)



From all the documentation and direct conversations, we feel that we have been able to



form a fair and representative picture of the Honors Program as it stands today. The



committee is most grateful to the Director, Professor Shawn Wong, and the entire staff of



the Honors Program for their considerable time and effort in gathering information and



helping the committee carry out its task to best effect. We would like to thank the many



administrators, faculty, staff and students who took considerable time and effort to



participate in the review process. In addition, David Canfield-Budde of the Graduate



School provided valuable and conscientious support to the committee.



The Chair would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the members of the



committee. It has been a pleasure and privilege to work with these committed, generous,



and knowledgeable individuals. I need to further express my personal appreciation for



the long hours, hard work, and expert judgment they gave to the review process and the



writing of this report, all with unfailing collegiality, good will and good humor.



Overview



This report needs to begin with the many positive aspects of the University of



Washington Honors Program which has excellent and happy students. The Director is



resourceful and committed; the staff is able and caring. The majority of the teaching is



excellent. The Honors Program has the benefit of many first rate facilities in Mary Gates



Hall, an innovative residence hall program, excellent services and opportunities provided



by the Office of Undergraduate Education, an innovative community scholars program,



and strong student mentors. The Honors Program provides small classes, exceptional



Study Abroad programs and has excellent relationships with certain departments. It also



offers an important service to exceptional high-school-age students who enter the UW



Honors Program following 10th grade through its partnership with the Robinson Center’s



Academy for Young Scholars.



All of these contribute to a quality experience for the students. However, the current



administrative structure and funding have marginalized and shackled the Honors



Program. To be blunt, the Honors Program is under-funded, understaffed and impaired



by its current status.



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In our report we will discuss the many strengths of the Honors Program, our



understanding of the problems and challenges which confront it and offer many



suggestions and recommendations for improvement. We believe that the Honors



Program at the University of Washington has the ability to become one of the premier



programs of its kind in the country. We further believe that an excellent Honors Program



will enhance and stimulate the rest of the University in many positive ways.



In a time of limited resources, it is unfortunate that many of our recommendations will



require more funding. However, much may be accomplished through restructuring,



cooperation between and among all units, departments, and colleges, revising



requirements and procedures, and so forth. These activities require as much time, effort



and good will as dollars.



It is possible that the overall tone of our report will appear to some as being highly



critical of the current program. The committee wishes to be perfectly clear that the



majority of problems we identify are systemic and are not a reflection on the abilities of



the current administration.



We have framed our report around the four critical issues identified by our review:



Critical Issue #1 Need to Define Vision



Critical Issue #2 Faculty and Students



Critical Issue #3 Curriculum



Critical Issue #4 Organization and Structure within the UW



These issues divide our report into four sections. Within each section we have identified



strengths as well as weaknesses and offer suggestions and recommendations for



improvements.



Critical Issue #1 - The Honors Program Vision



The UW Honors Program has served an increasing number of students who desire an



intensive and high-quality education at a large research university, much like numerous



other Honors Programs around the country. Many of UW's Honors Program students



appear to be satisfied with their experiences, but neither they, nor it seems their faculty or



departments realize what more is possible. The UW Honors Program has the



opportunity, with sound programmatic leadership and solid support from the central



administration, to raise itself to a new level. The existing program, while excellent to the



extent of its reach, has not realized its full potential on the UW campus nor has it



maximized its impact on developing student potential or learning. A new set of



aspirations and a clearly articulated vision is critical to moving the program upward.



The University of Washington has the tools and talent to create a world-class Honors



Program (or college), but it must stretch itself to do so. A vision statement is critical to



inspiring academic leaders, faculty, and students to make that stretch. The vision



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statement should be short, concrete, motivating, and ambitious. It should stress



excellence, both in terms of the students it serves and in the way it serves them. It should



build on UW's current strengths, but also clarify where the Honors Program is headed



academically, how it is situated in the University, and what goals it aspires to. The



statement should name the program's uniqueness and top assets, providing the rationale



for its growth and strength through the coming years. The honors vision should also



resonate with the University's overall vision of the future.



The vision should be used to drive the program's specific emphases, curriculum, and



pedagogy, as well as its service and community programs. It should lay the foundation



for the program's (or college's) future. From this vision statement then, a strategic plan



can be formulated that identifies objectives, indicators or measures of success, as well as



baseline and target values within a defined period of time. The vision will also be critical



to fundraising or development efforts in the future.



Recommendation 1.1: The Honors Program must define and articulate a powerful new



vision for its future that describes, in no uncertain terms, its special role in the University



as the place where academic excellence is highly valued, experienced, and



accomplished. It should position the Honors Program as the University's lead unit in



promoting world-class teaching, learning and research or creative achievement.



Recommendation 1.2: Use the new vision statement to guide all Honors Program



discussions and actions in the future.



Critical Issue #2 Faculty and Students



General Observations



The Committee notes that the Honors Program suffers from the same lack of diversity as



the rest of the University, something which should be addressed. The Review Committee



also found that students in the Honors Program do have some sense of community



fostered by their shared core classes, shared space and counseling facilities in the Honors



Programs Office, and by shared extracurricular experiences. The inclusion of faculty in



this sense of communal enterprise, however, is far more sporadic and tends to be



dependent upon individual personalities rather than upon systemic programmatic and



budgetary structures that formalize faculty-student interaction and build scholarly



community. There are several strategies, programmatic and administrative, that the



Honors Program might employ to enhance faculty-student interaction, faculty



commitment, and a common mission of intellectual excellence.



Diversity



We will devote few words to this problem because a few words serve to state the needs.



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Recommendation 2.1: Make increasing the diversity of the faculty, staff and students in



the Honors Program a high priority and provide resources to accomplish the mission.



Mentorship



A critical feature that distinguishes the university life and future contributions of



outstanding students is the experience gained working closely with attentive mentors. It



is striking that both University of Washington undergraduates who have later won Nobel



Prizes (George Hitchings [Physiology and Medicine, 1988] and Linda Buck [Physiology



and Medicine, 2004]) were closely involved in the research programs of eminent faculty.



The same issue is the focus of Elizabeth Gladfelter’s book, Aggasiz’s Legacy (Oxford



Univ. Press, 2002). Ms. Gladfelter documents the educational and professional lives of



many leading researcher-scholars in the biological and marine sciences, searching for



common features of their early training. An element common to virtually all was an



intense working relationship with a scholarly mentor in their student days, along with



hands-on field work aimed at discovery of new knowledge. These relationships tended to



be one-to-one, focused, intense and somewhat different from the opportunities offered at



present at UW or indeed, elsewhere in Honors Programs nationally. For such



experiences to be effective, it appears that the student should be fully integrated into the



team and exposed to a significant amount of one-on-one ‘face’ time with a mentor. We



urge that UW distinguish its Honors Program from most others nationally, by



establishment of unique opportunities of this kind, and suggest methods to achieve this



goal:



Recommendation 2.2: Each new student in the Honors Program should be matched with



a faculty mentor within the first quarter in the program with clear guidelines (established



by Honors Program and deliberately adopted by the Honors Council to suit a range of



disciplines) defining expectations for scholarly or creative interactions and productivity.



We mean by this, substantial one-on-one, focused, intense interactions that occupy both



participants together at least weekly, aimed at discovery of new knowledge or other



scholarly or creative activity appropriate to the focus of both participants. Wherever



possible and relevant, we encourage the faculty mentor to extend the network of mentors



to include graduate students and other faculty.



Recommendation 2.3: Each full-time faculty member, including research lines, be



honored with the opportunity to serve as a mentor in the Honors Program and be given



the title of Honors Faculty Mentor. The administration should recognize Honors Faculty



Mentors in merit, reappointment and promotion reviews.



Honors Faculty and Course Support.



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The current sporadic involvement of faculty in the Honors community is symptomatic of



a program without a firm identity as an independent unit and without enough budgetary



resources to ensure stable and continuing faculty involvement. The program presently



recruits faculty participants through a combination of voluntary teaching efforts by



faculty, and opportunistic shopping around campus by a very hard working staff. This



has worked remarkably well under the circumstances, largely because of the dedication



of a few individuals for whom Honors Program involvement is a ‘labor of love’. While



such dedication is commendable, it will not institutionalize the Honors Program as a



nationally renowned center of excellence with an independent and distinguished Honor



curriculum with systemic curricular options. Clearly this is unacceptable for the success



and reputation of the Honors Program and the University of Washington.



Nor will personal dedication permit appropriate growth or bring in new faculty. The



existing program annually serves 200 new students out of an applicant pool of about



2500. The Honors Program is thus forced to refuse access annually to many hundreds of



the best-qualified student applicants to the UW. For many of these students who are



considering a range of opportunities, being admitted to the Honors Program is a



prerequisite for considering the UW at all. When they are refused admission (note: this



year, it was harder to gain admission to UW Honors than to Stanford!), they subsequently



decline to enter the UW. This is a serious loss to the University as a whole. Secondly, the



present budget permits neither the development of an adequately distinguished, nor an



independent Honors curriculum. Clearly this is unacceptable for the success and



reputation of the Honors Program and the University of Washington.



Recommendation 2.4: The Honors Program should grow in numbers of students served



and receive both new resources and independence. We suggest a modular approach to



the needed growth. For instance 50 more students might be admitted each year until a



total of 500 are admitted annually. The details of this growth and a funding model are



found on page 16, recommendation 4.11.



Regular, Systematic Teaching Program and Empowerment of Honors Council



In conjunction with formalized faculty budgetary support, the program of courses for the



Honors Program students could be significantly improved by establishment of systematic



offerings in core areas, presented on a regular basis (see section #3). The present underfunding



of the program, and its lack of faculty resources, is a part of the root of this issue.



Addressing the underlying problem depends in part on the funding described in



Recommendation 4.11. Lack of faculty resources (and therefore low involvement of



faculty) also affects the efficacy of the Honors Council and the desire of faculty to



assume leadership and responsibility in the program.



Recommendation 2.5: If funding is forthcoming, the program should consider allocating



at least part of the new support to assure that a basic curriculum is organized, and



sustained on a regular basis over the long term. Some recommendations about the



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Honors curriculum are in section three. Final decisions about the nature of that



curriculum should be made by the Honors Council whose membership should be



enlarged and redefined as suggested below.



Recommendation 2.6: The Honors Council should be restructured to include additional



people who teach regularly and others with prior leadership experience in the Honors



Program. The Council should also be involved actively in establishing curricula,



mentoring, faculty selection, and student/faculty policy issues for the Honors Program,



and thus be in a better position to ‘add value’ based upon the direct, recent experience of



its members.



Honors Faculty Designation



Service on the Honors Faculty should be perceived as a great honor and institutionally



acknowledged as a significant designation for participating faculty and graduate students.



We also seek to reduce some of the barriers between distinguished undergraduate



students and the scholarly pursuits of the faculty and graduate students in this great



research university.



Recommendation 2.7: We urge the University to designate in some formal way, the



participation of faculty and graduate students in the Honors Program of the University.



Recognition with an appropriate designation suitable for inclusion in curriculum vitae



might be helpful in this regard.



Critical Issue #3 Curriculum



General Observations



The Review Committee found that the current Honors curriculum, while offering some



exciting courses which the students obviously enjoy, lacks coherency and a sense of



purpose. Its core curriculum is nicely interdisciplinary but is bogged down in general



education requirements and unimaginatively traditional in its emphasis on Western



Civilization. Some of the electives are striking and enjoyable but clustered in a few



disciplines. The curriculum is focused largely on the lower division and does not



dovetail well with Departmental Honors. Many capable students who complete College



Honors course work cannot get into Departmental Honors Programs which have limited



spaces available. Also many College Honors students find the Senior Thesis



Requirement difficult to achieve as each student must find a willing and qualified faculty



mentor, or the Thesis is not an appropriate format for a culminating project. Students



who do not complete an Honors thesis graduate with no accolade of College Honors on



their transcripts.



This bottle neck is a major factor contributing to the 46% attrition rate of students from



the program. In the course work, there is excellent participation by some departments



(notably mathematics) in the Honors Program but not by others. The sciences are



particularly poorly represented. Some honors course support is provided by the Honors



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Program to buy out faculty from the departments. But the funds are too limited to insure



an ongoing balanced menu of course offerings. Also the Self-Study notes an increasing



decline in Honors courses offered in the departments.



Graduation Accolades



The Honors Program and appropriate administrative bodies should address the graduation



requirements for a degree with College Honors so that successful completion is possible



for all students who enter the program. The completion of lower division honors course



work and the Senior Thesis is a good path but currently the ONLY path. There should be



alternate pathways, which might include lower division Honors course work followed by



a series of upper division Honors courses; or by Honors research experiences in the upper



division; or by Honors special projects (such as completion of a novel, a play, a film;



publication of a sponsored article in a scientific or scholarly journal etc.). Graduate level



courses might also serve as Honors courses and be applied to completion of the degree.



High level, upper division individual tutorials in the major might also be applied. There



are endless possibilities.



Recommendation 3.1: Restructure the requirements for graduation with College Honors



to include several alternate routes, including but not limited to completion of a



Departmental Senior Thesis.



Recommendation 3.2: Consider changing the accolade for completion of the Thesis from



“with distinction” to “With Departmental Honors” and make it possible for students to



graduate with either College Honors or Departmental Honors, or with both these



accolades.



Revitalizing the Curriculum



The creation of alternate routes to graduation with College Honors will, of course,



demand that more Honors courses and Honors experiences be offered at the upper



division level, and possibly even the lower, as the program grows. Departments may be



encouraged to revitalize their Honors offerings in the majors. But there are also ways of



using the existing UW curriculum without necessarily incurring additional expense.



Many smaller, upper division courses in the major might be identified as being suitable



for carrying Honors credit; as would graduate level courses. Special programs and



research opportunities such as the Friday Harbor Lab might be earmarked for Honors



credit. Certainly research experience should be particularly targeted and encouraged. The



effort to examine the UW curriculum in this light will no doubt have beneficial effects in



the Departments and help bring more scientists on board. The effort should also create a



thoughtful assessment of how the current lower division Honors core and specialty



Honors courses fit into the overall Honors degree and stimulate a reexamination of the



content of the core and its somewhat moribund attitude towards general education.



Recommendation 3.3: Establish a committee to examine the Honors Program curriculum



and identify suitable courses and special programs and high level academic enrichment



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experiences which are worthy of carrying Honors credit. Formalize these into the



Honors curriculum as options for students.



Recommendation 3.4: Have the same committee review the core and bring its content



into a more exciting discussion of interdisciplinary issues than its traditional current



base. Broaden the offerings in the honors electives across all departments.



Recommendation 3.5: Consider exempting Honors students from all general education



requirements. With appropriate faculty guidance, Honors students should be able to



design their own path to the degree, once enough Honors options are in place.



Filling Gaps in the Curriculum



Students choose to come to the University of Washington for a variety of reasons, but



certainly many are attracted to those programs and majors and intellectual highpoints that



have the best reputation. The Honors Program should be deeply embedded in these



programs so that it becomes institutionalized as the place to go get the truly excellent



education.



Recommendation 3.6: Identify all the programs, majors and intellectual/artistic



highpoints for which UW is famous and find ways of building Honors options into them



with the goal of building on UW’s academic strengths to strengthen the curriculum and



the reputation of Honors at UW.



In their third and fourth years many Honors students experience difficulty in meeting



departmental major requirements and continuing to meet the requirements for the Honors



Program. Coordination and cooperation between departments and the Honors Program



could relieve most of these problems.



Recommendation 3.7: In the process of developing the Honors curriculum make an effort



to work with individual departments so that Honors Program courses can meet some



departmental requirements and vice versa.



The excellent education available at the UW should also include the honing of skills and



proficiencies in quantitative reasoning, working new technologies, public speaking, and



writing. Yet there seems to be a dearth of English Composition options for Honors



students and few forums for presentation of research and public speaking.



Recommendation 3.8: Develop Honors course options in English Composition and in



technology proficiencies; develop Honors options that allow for the honing of



presentation and academic conference skills.



Seattle is known for high technology and for art. It can be a rich laboratory for joint



pedagogical efforts with the full spectrum of local industry, arts, and research institutions.



Some of this is being done with the Community Scholars program and the Carlson Center



but more could be done.



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Recommendation 3.9: Encourage and expand internships and other communityuniversity



liaison programs that allow Honors students to put theory into practice, and



utilize the rich opportunities available in the city. Work with the Carlson Leadership and



Public Service Center to offer honors credit for these options. Promote these experiences



as exceptional opportunities for ALL UW students.



The Review Committee found that more could be done in the curriculum to speak to the



interests and needs of ethnically and culturally diverse students who are part of the



undergraduate student body at UW.



Recommendation 3.10: In the process of developing the Honors curriculum, make special



efforts to identify courses in the curriculum, suitable for Honors credit that typically



attract underrepresented students. Keep a similar focus in mind during the development



of the revised core curriculum. Consider developing a special bridge course carrying



honors credit in the Academy for Young Scholars. Develop interdisciplinary elective



honors courses addressing a broad range of cultural and artistic experiences that speak



to the life experiences of a diverse cohort of high achieving students.



Recommendation 3.11: Take steps to insure participation of a diverse faculty in the



development and teaching of Honors courses.



Recommendation 3.12: Diversity Scholars should be considered eligible for admission to



the Honors Program. They should be recruited and invited to apply.



Critical Issue #4: Organization and Structure



The Honors Program has a triple mission: (1) to recruit and admit top students into the



Honors Program; (2) to provide a very high quality, interdisciplinary general education,



especially in the first two years; and (3) to provide encouragement, advising, and



pathways for students to graduate from the UW with Honors. As we discovered, certain



elements of this mission are adequately served by the present organization and structure,



while others are not.



The Role of the Honors Director



There was unanimous sentiment – from the director, to the dean, to the review



committee’s external members – that, as presently defined, the position of Honors



Director falls far short of the task. To begin, 50% is hardly adequate: it is a full-time



position. At present, the Honors Director teaches two courses in his home department



(for the other 50% of his position) and therefore has no room in his schedule to teach



Honors courses!



Recommendation 4.1: Immediately increase the Honors Director position to 100%.



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The nature of the work of the director also led to a discussion of the structural position of



the Honors Director. While it may well make sense to have the Honors Program continue



to be a part of the Office of Undergraduate Education (more about this later), much of



what the Director must do to ensure an excellent educational experience requires an



ability to negotiate with deans and chairs. If the Honors Program were some day to



become an Honors College, following national norms, the Honors Director would



become an independent dean. However, until that time, the Honors Director should be



elevated to a structurally more authoritative position, both with respect to the Dean of



Undergraduate Education, and other deans throughout the UW.



Recommendation 4.2: Immediately designate the Honors Director as Associate Dean for



Honors, reporting to the Dean of Undergraduate Education.



Staff Organization



We applaud the Honors Director’s evaluation and restructuring of staff and staff



responsibilities, and utilization of the expertise of the Office of Undergraduate Education.



However – and this is related to the recommendations above – further responsibility for



the curriculum as well as bringing faculty energy to Honors must rest increasingly with



the director, rather than other staff. As we envision the future of the Honors Program an



Associate Director (Assistant Dean, should recommendation 4.2 be followed) will soon



be a necessity. The Associate Director can be active in identifying and recruiting



faculty to teach and mentor, and add balance to the expertise of the leadership of the



Honors Program. For example, the current Director of the Honors Program is a



humanist. The new Associate Director could be a scientist. The responsibilities of an



Associate Director will need to be clearly defined so that there is no confusion or



conflicting assignments between the Director and the Associate Director.



Recommendation 4.3: Immediately identify a faculty member as full time Associate



Director/Assistant Dean.



It should be noted that there was universal praise for the current Honors staff: students



and faculty have had very good experiences with the senior staff, and find them to be



knowledgeable and caring. However, we know that faculty talking with faculty can be



more effective than staff talking with faculty especially when the topics include



curriculum, courses and other direct academic matters.



Relationship between Honors and the Academy



The Academy for Young Scholars is in its third year. The demand for the program



remains strong, and the review committee was very impressed by the Academy students



whom we met. Many of these Academy students expressed a strong desire to be more



accepted by and integrated with the non-Academy Honors students; they understand that



a few bad apples, especially among the first-year class, have created some stigma.



However, they are also optimistic that this is easily overcome.



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There have been growing pains and tensions between the Academy and Honors staff. We



understand that these differences are being worked out, and we strongly encourage



continued progress in this regard. The fundamental idea of the Academy remains sound.



Recommendations 4.4:



A. Academy students should continue to be admitted directly into Honors. Once



admitted, they are subject to all of the academic requirements of Honors.



B. Academy students should comprise a set percentage of the incoming Honors



class, perhaps 10%. As the Honors Program grows, so too should the



Academy. If the incoming Honors class is set at 300, the target number of



Academy admissions would be 30; if it is 500, the target number of Academy



students would be 50.



C. Academy students have agreed to become University students by virtue of



accepting admission. Their standards of behavior must reflect their



University student status rather than their age. Failure to comply with



behavioral expectations should constitute grounds for dismissal from Honors,



and should lie within the purview of the Honors Director’s discretion, in



consultation with Academy staff.



D. We recommend that the Dean of Undergraduate Education review the



budgetary arrangements between the Academy and Honors and make any



necessary adjustments.



Relationship between University Honors and Departmental Honors



There are considerable structural impediments to students who wish to graduate with



Honors, and they reflect the state of relations between University Honors and



Departmental Honors. This relationship is characterized by an absence of



communication, a lack of coordinated planning, inadequate resources both at the



University and departmental levels, and obstructionist rules governing the designation of



honors at graduation. It should be noted that, under the present system, students cannot



graduate with honors unless they complete both University and departmental honors



requirements. (See also section 3).



Inadequate communication. On their website, the Honors Program lists departments that



offer departmental honors, and the requirements of each of the programs. We have no



way of knowing whether this is a complete list, and, at the time of the review, some of



the links were dead. Furthermore, we met with departmental representatives from two of



the departments that have well-developed and long-standing departmental Honors options



– Political Science and Mathematics – and discovered that there has been no



communication at all between the Honors Program and the department, not even at the



adviser level. Several students whom we interviewed confirmed that the relationship is



poor: often it was left to them to figure out how to handle competing requirements when



there were established programs, and how to exercise a departmental honors option when



none was offered formally. The observation that a mere 46 % of students graduate with



honors is no surprise, therefore.



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Recommendation 4.5: The Honors Director and advising staff should immediately



convene protocols for regular and on-going bi-directional communication between the



Honors Program and formal departmental Honors Programs.



Planning and Resources. The Honors Director noted that one of his priorities is to assist



departments with their departmental Honors Programs, mindful that there can be no



single template. At the same time, both University and departmental Honors face a



considerable structural challenge: there are simply too few spaces at the departmental



level for Honors students to pursue an Honors option. For instance, we discovered that



there are only 12-15 spaces per year in the Honors option in Political Science, a



department that graduates more than 300 students per year. A similar story holds in



Psychology, and had we interviewed other departments, we are likely to have heard the



same thing.



For this reason – and primarily because it does not serve students well at all – the Honors



Program should take a leadership role in enrollment planning for Honors options across



the University. In order to do so, the first step is to conduct an audit of every department



that offers an undergraduate degree, and then to discover not only if there is an Honors



option, but what it consists of, and how many places there are for students at present. (It



should also be noted the departmental Honors options are not now limited to students



who are University Honors Program students.)



Recommendation 4.6: Conduct an audit of Honors options in all departments that offer



an undergraduate degree, noting the requirements for the option and the number of



spaces available to students.



Additionally, in order to create a set of opportunities for students which are inviting



academically, and seamless structurally, the Honors director should consider the



possibility of academic strategic planning with key departments. No doubt this strategic



planning exercise will reveal an inadequate number of opportunities in majors for



University Honors students, and that a plan to ameliorate this situation – including



bringing new resources to departments – will emerge.



Recommendation 4.7: Commence academic strategic planning for Honors across the



university, including representatives from key departments.



During this process the University may wish to consider a model of a true four-year,



University-wide Honors Program with a concomitant demise of independent



departmental Honors. That is, there would be only one kind of Honors – University. The



idea of uniform standards and expectations, centrally trained Honors advisors and the



like may not fit within the culture of the UW. However, it is worth considering.



Finally, fix the transcript problems. The committee may not have grasped every detail of



this topic; however it is clear that many rules or policies concerning transcripts are



arbitrary and antiquated. We do not recommend a committee consider these



recommendations. We recommend that the UW Administration just fix them.



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Recommendation 4.8: Students should have Honors designations on their transcripts for



both University and departmental Honors courses in any quarter where they are so



enrolled.



Recommendation 4.9: A diploma should indicate that the student has graduated with



honors in a specific discipline from the UW Honors Program.



Recommendation 4.10: All Honors courses should be identified with an “H” in course



schedules, transcripts and so forth. The current designation for some honors courses as



“H A&S” dates back to a different organizational configuration, and should be replaced



by the simple and straightforward “H”.



Bringing Resources to University Honors through Development



The development arm of Undergraduate Education is still in its early stages, having been



established three years ago. In our interview with Eric Godfrey, Assistant Vice President



for Development for Student Support, he noted that in order to make significant progress



in raising money for University Honors, it will be necessary for University officials at the



highest level to articulate Honors as a UW priority, and to clarify its place in the overall



academic organization of the University. At the same time, he noted that the most



effective approach to donors will be as a partnership with the University: donors are



asked to support student scholarship and innovative academic programming, while the



University will provide for the core academic curriculum.



Supporting the Instructional Mission: Financial Resource Implications



The Honors Program has been living off a mix of permanent and temporary resources,



the latter having been provided by the President, through the Provost’s Office.



Regularizing the resource base is a priority, of course, but the larger question is about the



size of the Honors Program and the resources necessary to support it. As the committee



has suggested in another part of this report, given the needs of the State of Washington



and the priorities of the UW, the program is presently too small. If we assume, for the



purposes of this discussion, that the proper incoming size of the Honors Program is 500



per year at its build-out, then the question becomes how to bring the necessary faculty



and staff to the program.



Faculty



As mentioned earlier in the report, in its present configuration, there are too few tenured



or tenure-track faculty involved in the Honors Program at any level – teaching courses,



providing governance and oversight, offering innovative directions. Even to remain at



the present size, this problem simply must be addressed. There are two fundamental



aspects to the problem: regularizing faculty involvement, and paying for it. At present, it



is largely an ad hoc system (a begging bowl system, in more colorful terms): the Honors



staff asks either for a gift of teaching (faculty teach as an overload) or offers chairs a



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graduate student stipend in return for a faculty member’s commitment. Or a home



department receives nothing in exchange for faculty teaching in the Honors Program.



In many cases this process breeds ill will towards the Honors Program in the units.



None of these are sustainable or appropriate for the UW.



How might the Honors Program regularize faculty commitment? We heard a number of



ideas that are worthy of further development:



• Arrange for all tenure-track and tenured new faculty to teach one Honors



course some time in their first five years with appropriate compensation to



the home unit.



• Provide for a certain number of faculty positions to reside in Honors, to be



filled on a rotating basis.



• Ask the Provost to allocate resources to deans of colleges (Arts and



Sciences, Engineering, Ocean and Fishery Sciences, and Business chief



among them) on a contractual basis, and give authority to the Honors



Director to negotiate these contracts. (The approach used to populate the



introductory biology series with excellent faculty from a number of



departments and colleges might serve as a useful model.)



• Ask the Provost and deans to designate surplus teaching energy from



undersubscribed departments for Honors.



• Arrange for all Distinguished Teaching Award winners to teach a course



in Honors some time in the three years following their award, again with



appropriate compensation to the home unit.



While the idea of bringing public intellectuals and others from the community in to teach



Honors students brings an added dimension to the students’ educational experience, it is



no substitute for the kind of regular faculty commitment that must serve as the core of the



Honors Program. It is, in fact, key to addressing Critical Issue #2, preceding.



Recommendation 4.11: Pursue all ideas for bringing regular teaching faculty to the



Honors Program



In one form or another, all of the ideas listed above are in place at peer universities with



strong Honors Programs, and should be developed.



The question remains how to fund the Honors Program in a rational way, both it its



present configuration, and in growth mode. A rough formula for thinking about resource



implications might be as follows: For every additional 100 incoming Honors students, 4



additional faculty positions and 1 additional adviser are required. This is roughly



equivalent to a $400,000 allocation. Note that the present instructional budget of Honors



is approximately 2/3 of this amount. The assumptions are as follows: 100 students will



take 15 credits each per quarter resulting in 4500 total credits. Approximately 1/3 of



these credits – 1500 – will be taken in the Honors core curriculum. Assume an annual



teaching load of 4 courses per faculty, 20 students per course, and 3-5 credits per course



resulting in a per faculty load of 240-400 SCH per year. At the upper boundary of 400



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SCH/faculty/year, four additional faculty will be required to provide 1500 SCH to those



100 students.



Recommendation 4.12: Establish a reliable annual budget expectation for Honors.



Recommendation 4.13: Decide on the proper size for the Honors Program, and budget



for it accordingly. Utilize a modular approach: for example, for every additional 100



students, plan to allocate an additional $400,000.



Conclusion



The Honors Program at the University of Washington is a crossroads. We believe that it



is possible for the University of Washington to have one of the premier Honors Programs



in the country and that a strong Honors Program will strengthen all of the units of the



University. We have detailed our recommendations in the preceding pages. As you



consider this report we believe there are five underlying principles to bear in mind. In



order for the Honors Program to improve, grow and thrive it must have a dynamic vision,



it must work to become an independent college, it must be funded at a reasonable level,



it must be respected highly, both internally and extramurally, and it must be flexible.



Principle 1. Vision The UW needs to envision its Honors Program as a dynamic leader



of academic excellence across the campus. It needs to envision an Honors Program



which serves a larger number of the state’s best and brightest students and engages the



best of the faculty as well. The new vision must not be fettered by current budgets or



policies. It needs to envision a program which will require new policies and procedures.



Principle 2. Structure As part of realizing the new vision, the UW should work towards



creating an Honors College. An Honors College gives the Head of the Honors Program



the standing of an independent Dean who is able to work with, negotiate and if need be



arm wrestle as an equal with other Deans. A Dean of an Honors College would sit on the



Board of Deans and have regular interaction with the Provost and the President.



Principle 3. Funding Fund the Honors Program/College appropriately. We know that



the necessary funding cannot appear over night and may well be dependent on a major



endowment gift. Nevertheless an increase in the permanent budget must happen in the



new biennium. Plans should be made to increase the biennial budget incrementally until



such time as an endowment is secured.



Principle 4. Culture Change the culture at the UW to embrace and support the Honors



Program. The entire administration, the President, the Provost, and all the Deans, need to



make it clear that working with the Honors Program to make it the best possible is what



is done at the UW. Units who cooperate in instituting some of the recommendations in



this report should be rewarded or should benefit in a tangible way. If the culture becomes



one of expected and demanded support and cooperation, it will not take long for many of



the long term problems to be eliminated.



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Principle 5 Flexibility Make change possible. Eliminate arbitrary or antiquated rules



which block student progress. Re-examine the cap on AP credits. Re-examine the



admissions process. Eliminate one of the essays and look for other ways to reduce the



burden/workload the current admissions process places on the staff. Grant Honors



students early admission to majors which require admission. These are a few of the



systemic barriers to creativity that discourage imagination and change.



Many of the ingredients for an exemplary Honors Program already exist at the University



of Washington. Create a recipe for excellence.



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Appendix A



Recommendations from the Report of the



Honors Program Review Committee



Recommendation 1.1: The Honors Program must define and articulate a powerful new



vision for its future that describes, in no uncertain terms, its special role in the University



as the place where academic excellence is highly valued, experienced, and



accomplished. It should position the Honors Program as the University's lead unit in



promoting world-class teaching, learning and research or creative achievement.



Recommendation 1.2: Use the new vision statement to guide all Honors Program



discussions and actions in the future.



Recommendation 2.1: Make increasing the diversity of the faculty, staff and students in



the Honors Program a high priority and provide resources to accomplish the mission.



Recommendation 2.2: Each new student in the Honors Program should be matched with a



faculty mentor within the first quarter in the program with clear guidelines (established



by Honors Program and deliberately adopted by the Honors Council to suit a range of



disciplines) defining expectations for scholarly or creative interactions and productivity.



We mean by this, substantial one-on-one, focused, intense interactions that occupy both



participants together at least weekly, aimed at discovery of new knowledge or other



scholarly or creative activity appropriate to the focus of both participants. Wherever



possible and relevant, we encourage the faculty mentor to extend the network of mentors



to include graduate students and other faculty.



Recommendation 2.3: Each full-time faculty member, including research lines, be



honored with the opportunity to serve as a mentor in the Honors Program and be given



the title of Honors Faculty Mentor. The administration should recognize Honors Faculty



Mentors in merit, reappointment and promotion reviews.



Recommendation 2.4: The Honors Program should grow in numbers of students served



and receive both new resources and independence. We suggest a modular approach to



the needed growth. For instance 50 more students might be admitted each year until a



total of 500 are admitted annually. The details of this growth and a funding model are



found on page 16, recommendation 4.11.



Recommendation 2.5: If funding is forthcoming, the program should consider allocating



at least part of the new support to assure that a basic curriculum is organized, and



sustained on a regular basis over the long term. Some recommendations about the



Honors curriculum are in section three. Final decisions about the nature of that



curriculum should be made by the Honors Council whose membership should be



enlarged and redefined as suggested below.



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Recommendation 2.6: The Honors Council should be restructured to include additional



people who teach regularly and others with prior leadership experience in the Honors



Program. The Council should also be involved actively in establishing curricula,



mentoring, faculty selection, and student/faculty policy issues for the Honors Program,



and thus be in a better position to ‘add value’ based upon the direct, recent experience of



its members.



Recommendation 2.7: We urge the University to designate in some formal way, the



participation of faculty and graduate students in the Honors Program of the University.



Recognition with an appropriate designation suitable for inclusion in curriculum vitae



might be helpful in this regard.



Recommendation 3.1: Restructure the requirements for graduation with College Honors



to include several alternate routes, including but not limited to completion of a



Departmental Senior Thesis.



Recommendation 3.2: Consider changing the accolade for completion of the Thesis from



“with distinction” to “With Departmental Honors” and make it possible for students to



graduate with either College Honors or Departmental Honors, or with both these



accolades.



Recommendation 3.3: Establish a committee to examine the Honors Program curriculum



and identify suitable courses and special programs and high level academic enrichment



experiences which are worthy of carrying Honors credit. Formalize these into the Honors



curriculum as options for students.



Recommendation 3.4: Have the same committee review the core and bring its content



into a more exciting discussion of interdisciplinary issues than its traditional current base.



Broaden the offerings in the honors electives across all departments.



Recommendation 3.5: Consider exempting Honors students from all general education



requirements. With appropriate faculty guidance, Honors students should be able to



design their own path to the degree, once enough Honors options are in place.



Recommendation 3.6: Identify all the programs, majors and intellectual/artistic



highpoints for which UW is famous and find ways of building Honors options into them



with the goal of building on UW’s academic strengths to strengthen the curriculum and



the reputation of Honors at UW.



Recommendation 3.7: In the process of developing the Honors curriculum make an effort



to work with individual departments so that Honors Program courses can meet some



departmental requirements and vice versa.



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Recommendation 3.8: Develop Honors course options in English Composition and in



technology proficiencies; develop Honors options that allow for the honing of



presentation and academic conference skills.



Recommendation 3.9: Encourage and expand internships and other community-university



liaison programs that allow Honors students to put theory into practice, and utilize the



rich opportunities available in the city. Work with the Carlson Leadership and Public



Service Center to offer honors credit for these options. Promote these experiences as



exceptional opportunities for ALL UW students.



Recommendation 3.10: In the process of developing the Honors curriculum, make special



efforts to identify courses in the curriculum, suitable for Honors credit that typically



attract underrepresented students. Keep a similar focus in mind during the development



of the revised core curriculum. Consider developing a special bridge course carrying



honors credit in the Academy for Young Scholars. Develop interdisciplinary elective



honors courses addressing a broad range of cultural and artistic experiences that speak to



the life experiences of a diverse cohort of high achieving students.



Recommendation 3.11: Take steps to insure participation of a diverse faculty in the



development and teaching of Honors courses.



Recommendation 3.12: Diversity Scholars should be considered eligible for admission to



the Honors Program. They should be recruited and invited to apply.



Recommendation 4.1: Immediately increase the Honors Director position to 100%.



Recommendation 4.2: Immediately designate the Honors Director as Associate Dean for



Honors, reporting to the Dean of Undergraduate Education.



Recommendation 4.3: Immediately identify a faculty member as full time Associate



Director/Assistant Dean.



Recommendations 4.4:



E. Academy students should continue to be admitted directly into Honors. Once



admitted, they are subject to all of the academic requirements of Honors.



F. Academy students should comprise a set percentage of the incoming Honors



class, perhaps 10%. As the Honors Program grows, so too should the



Academy. If the incoming Honors class is set at 300, the target number of



Academy admissions would be 30; if it is 500, the target number of Academy



students would be 50.



G. Academy students have agreed to become University students by virtue of



accepting admission. Their standards of behavior must reflect their University



student status rather than their age. Failure to comply with behavioral



expectations should constitute grounds for dismissal from Honors, and should



lie within the purview of the Honors Director’s discretion, in consultation with



Academy staff.



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H. We recommend that the Dean of Undergraduate Education review the



budgetary arrangements between the Academy and Honors and make any



necessary adjustments.



Recommendation 4.5: The Honors Director and advising staff should immediately



convene protocols for regular and on-going bi-directional communication between the



Honors Program and formal departmental Honors Programs.



Recommendation 4.6: Conduct an audit of Honors options in all departments that offer



an undergraduate degree, noting the requirements for the option and the number of spaces



available to students.



Recommendation 4.7: Commence academic strategic planning for Honors across the



university, including representatives from key departments.



During this process the University may wish to consider a model of a true four-year,



University-wide Honors Program with a concomitant demise of independent



departmental Honors. That is, there would be only one kind of Honors – University. The



idea of uniform standards and expectations, centrally trained Honors advisors and the like



may not fit within the culture of the UW. However, it is worth considering.



Recommendation 4.8: Students should have Honors designations on their transcripts for



both University and departmental Honors courses in any quarter where they are so



enrolled.



Recommendation 4.9: A diploma should indicate that the student has graduated with



honors in a specific discipline from the UW Honors Program.



Recommendation 4.10: All Honors courses should be identified with an “H” in course



schedules, transcripts and so forth. The current designation for some honors courses as



“H A&S” dates back to a different organizational configuration, and should be replaced



by the simple and straightforward “H”.



Recommendation 4.11: Pursue all ideas for bringing regular teaching faculty to the



Honors Program



Recommendation 4.12: Establish a reliable annual budget expectation for Honors.



Recommendation 4.13: Decide on the proper size for the Honors Program, and budget



for it accordingly. Utilize a modular approach: for example, for every additional 100



students, plan to allocate an additional $400,000.

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