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Lamar University Reaud Honors College; Sam Houston State University Elliott T. Bowers Honors College; Sul Ross State University Honors Program; Texas State University Honors College; Non-system affiliated (4 universities) Stephen F. Austin State University School of Honors; Texas Southern University Thomas F. Freeman Honors College
Sammy Bearkat. Website. www .shsu .edu. Sam Houston State University ( Sam Houston, SHSU or Sam) is a public research university in Huntsville, Texas. Founded in 1879, it is the third-oldest public college or university in Texas. It is one of the first normal schools west of the Mississippi River and the first in Texas.
The decision to structure an honors program as a college may relate to how an institution itself is structured. A collegiate university, one that is composed of several constituent colleges might, administratively, favor an honors college over an honors program. Alternatively, university departments, constituent institutes, and constituent ...
Almost six in ten honors heads teach honors courses as part of the duties of their position, an assignment that occurs in fewer honors col-leges (44%) than programs (70%) among NCHC members. For honors heads in full-time positions in honors, the 2016 Census added to the 2013 survey a question about salary.
then tracking honors students—who are defined as academically talented undergraduate students participating in an honors program or college—has happened rarely . As Achterberg states in her 2005 article on the characteris-tics of honors students, no definition exists for honors students such as there is for honors programs .
the honors thesis; it is a required or recommended text in scores of honors programs and colleges across the United States. In addition, almost every honors program and college generates a great deal of information and advice about the thesis. Typically they publish an institutionally specific set of guidelines for the
The Association of College Honor Societies was formed in 1925 to create a network of affiliated societies and promote standards for scholarship and leadership on campus. The founding societies intended to establish and maintain desirable standards for groups wishing to call themselves honor societies. These standards included criteria for ...
of honors-sensitive institutions have sprung up in many states (the Honors Transfer Council of California now numbers over forty col-leges), and honors transfer agreements and alliances with four-year institutions are increasingly common. The current institutional roster of NCHC reveals a two-year college