HERU 2022
Preliminary Program
Administration and Infrastructure
Session A Wednesday, 9:45-11:00 a.m. 1) Design of an Honors Option Contract Management System (#14)
a. Dr. Michael Blandino Asst. Dean, LSU (Ogden HC)
2) Modeling and Communicating the Value of Honors through a Faculty Fellowship Initiative (#12)
a. Dr. John Emert Dean, Ball State HC
b. Dr. Adam Kuban Assoc. Professor, Ball State
3) Tenure in Honors (#57)
a. Dr. Patricia Smith Dean, Central Arkansas (Schedler HC)
b. Dr. Leah Horton Assoc. Dean, Central Arkansas (Schedler HC)
Session B Wednesday, 11:15a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1) The Next Generation of NCHC’s “Basic Characteristics” (#50)
a. Dr. Richard Badenhausen Dean, Westminster College HC
b. Dr. Jim Buss Dean, Northern Kentucky University HC
Session C Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Honors at Scale: Ideas for Expanding Access to the Honors Experience (#9)
a. Dr. Tara Williams Dean, Alabama HC
2) Peer Mentors: Building Community in a Post-Pandemic World (#29)
a. Dr. Dawn Rendell Asst. Dean, ASU (Barrett HC)
c. Ashley Brand Director of Student Services, ASU (Barrett HC)
Session D Wednesday, 3:45-5 p.m.
1) Elevating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Honors (#10)
a. Ms. Xochitl Delgado Solórzano Asst. Dean, Arkansas HC
b. Dr. Shannon Blanton Dean, UAB HC
c. Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee Dean, Montana State HC
d. Dr. Kay Thomas Asst. Dean, South Carolina HC
e. Dr. Tara M. Tuttle Asst. Dean, D.E.I. Kentucky (Lewis HC)
f. Dr. Lynette Yarger Asst. Dean, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
2) Student and Staff Burnout: Engaging in Effective Equity Audits in Honors (#55)
a. Cherae Boyce Academic Adviser, Rutgers HC
b. Dr. Lisa Sanon-Jules Asst. Dean, Rutgers HC
c. Robert Wilder Academic Adviser, Rutgers HC
Session E Thursday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) The Possibilities in the Pandemic: Lessons Learned and How We Adapted (#24)
a. Dr. Dawn Rendell Asst. Dean, ASU (Barrett HC)
b. Ashley Brand Director of Student Services, ASU (Barrett HC)
Advancement/Development/Advisory Boards
Session A Wednesday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) Honors Advisory Board: Starting, Retooling, or Refreshing
a. Dr. Kevin Gustafson Dean, Northern Arizona HC
b. Dr. Toni Doolen Dean, Oregon State HC
c. Dr. Sarah Cook Dean, Georgia State HC
Session B Wednesday, 3:45-5 p.m.
1) Effectively Using Your Honors Advisory Board
a. Dr. Patrick Mather Dean, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Dr. Jonathan Earle Dean, LSU (Ogden HC)
c. Dr. Loria Brown Gordon Assoc. Dean, Jackson State (W.E.B. DuBois HC)
d. Dr. Rebecca Bott Dean, South Dakota State (Fishback HC)
Session C Thursday, 9:45-11 a.m.
1) Community, Corporate, and Alumni Engagement: Creating and Developing Strategic Alliances
a. Dr. Toni Doolen Dean, Oregon State HC
b. Mrs. Chappell Wilson Asst. Dean, South Carolina HC
c. Dr. Juan Carlos Espinosa Dean, Florida International HC
d. Dr. Rebecca Bott Dean, South Dakota State (Fishback HC)
Session D Thursday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) The Donor Appreciation Process
a. Mrs. Melanie Frantz Finocchio Stewardship Coordinator, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Mr. Tom Harrington Web Designer, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
2) How to Successfully Incorporate Virtual Donor and Alumni Visits Post-Pandemic (#44)
a. Mr. Sean Miller Sr. Development Director, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Mr. Jason Godinez Asst. Development Director, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
Assessment
Session A Wednesday, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1) Development of a Comprehensive Assessment Program and New Curricular Activities for the Penn
State Schreyer Honors College
a. Dr. Karen Paulson Teaching Professor, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Dr. Keefe B. Manning Associate Dean, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
2) Writing Assessment in a Freshman Great Books Course (#61)
a. Dr. Jesse Rainbow Instructional Assoc. Professor, Houston HC
Session B Thursday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation
a. Dr. Todd Pugatch Assoc. Professor, Oregon State HC
b. Dr. Paul Thompson Assoc. Professor, Oregon State HC
c. Presenter: Dr. Toni Doolen Dean, Oregon State HC
2) Assessing Honors Student Engagement with NSSE Data
a. Dr. Jonathan Williamson Assoc. Dean, Houston HC
Community and Civic Engagement
Session A Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Enhances the Honors Experience
a. Dr. Lisa M. Troy Assoc. Professor, UMass Amherst (Commonwealth HC)
b. Ms. Jennifer Marino Alumna, UMass Amherst (Commonwealth HC)
c. Ms. Tamar Stollman Student, UMass Amherst (Commonwealth HC)
d. Melissa Woglom Academic Dir., Continuing Ed., UMass Amherst
2) Creating a Fourth Space for Honors Student Community Engagement (#38)
a. Dr. Heidi Appel Dean, Toledo (Jesup Scott HC)
b. Dr. Robert Schultz Assoc. Dean, Toledo (Jesup Scott HC)
Session B Wednesday, 3:45-5 p.m.
1) The Jane Project: Exploring Chicago through an Experiential Collaboration between Roosevelt University and the University of Illinois Chicago’s Honors Program
a. Lauren DeJulio Bell Academic Advisor, Illinois-Chicago HC
b. Michele McCrillis Asst. Dean, Illinois-Chicago HC
c. Sarah Rutter Assoc. Director, Roosevelt University HP
d. Two students to be named later
Session C Thursday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Community Engaged Learning in Honors: A Toolkit for Teaching and Learning
a. Dr. Megan Bailey Asst. Professor, Alabama
b. Dr. W. Ross Bryan Asst. Dean, Alabama HC
2) The Honors in Community Health (HICH) Co-Curricular Program Model
a. Ms. Olivia Tran Student, Houston HC
b. Ms. Sara Syed Student, Houston HC
Curriculum Development
Session A Wednesday, 9:45-11 a.m.
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The Honors Year One Experience: A Transdisciplinary Curriculum for a New Generation of Honors Students
a. Dr. Anne Franklin Lamar Dir. of Honors Year One, Alabama HC
b. Dr. Megan Bailey Asst. Professor, Alabama -
Reimagining an Honors Curriculum for a Post-Pandemic World
a. Dr. Jonathan Earle Dean, LSU (Ogden HC)
b. Dr. Drew Lamonica Arms Assoc. Dean, LSU (Ogden HC)
c. Dr. Granger Babcock Assoc. Dean, LSU (Ogden HC)
Session B Wednesday, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1) Honors Experiences: Bringing Intentionality to Experiential Learning through Honors Curricular Requirements
a. Mr. Jacob Schlange Asst. Dir. of Experiential Learning, Nebraska HP
2) Cultivating a Culture of Purposeful Experiential Learning and Student Reflection
a. Dr. Rita Sirrieh Assoc. Dir., Energy & Sustainability, Houston HC
Session C Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Honors Colleges, Transdisciplinary Education, and Global Challenges
a. Dr. Paul Knox Founding Dean, Virginia Tech HC
b. Dr. Paul Heilker Assoc. Dean, Virginia Tech HC
2) Comprehensive Internationalization and Honors Education in the Research University
a. Dr. Eric Welch Dir. of Undergraduate Studies, Kentucky (Lewis HC)
Session D Wednesday, 3:45-5 p.m.
1) Mindfulness-Based Emotional and Social Intelligence (MESI) in the Honors College: Washington State University’s New Certificate Program during and after the Pandemic
a. Dr. Lydia Gerber Assoc. Professor, Washington State HC
2) Designing a Curriculum to Educate Leaders for a New World (#53)
a. Dr. Talia Robbins Asst. Teaching Professor, Rutgers HC
Session E Thursday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) Pivoting During the Pandemic: Reconceptualizing Academic and Career Programming for a New
Path Forward
a. Ms. Lisa Kerchinski Dir. of Career Development, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Ms. Debra Rodgers Coord. of Academic Advising, Penn State (Schreyer)
2) The Design and Development of “Engineering Positive and Intentional Change” (EPIC): An
Innovative Honors Minor Program Focused on the Broader Role of an Engineer in Society
a. Dr. Kathryn O’Harra Asst. Professor, Alabama
High-Impact Practices/Pedagogies
Session A Wednesday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) The Politics of Mapping: Student-Faculty Collaborative Utilizing ArcGIS Story Mapping
a. Dr. Terumi Rafferty-Osaki Dir., Office of Competitive Fellowships, Florida GC
b. Ms. Katherine Ryan Student, Florida Gulf Coast
2) “This Felt Like College. It Was Good to Find My People”: Developing Communitas through Student-
Led Oral History during COVID-19
a. Dr. Zada Komara Lecturer, Kentucky (Lewis HC)
Session B Wednesday, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1) The Justice Challenge: An Honorable Model
a. Dr. Rebecca Bott-Knutson Dean, South Dakota State (Fishback HC)
b. Dr. Heidi Appel Dean, Toledo (Jesup Scott HC)
c. Dr. Joy Hart Exec. Dir., Louisville Honors Program
d. Dr. Jon Kotinek Assoc. Dir. for LAUNCH: Honors, Texas A&M
e. Mr. William Ziegler Presidential Fellow, Binghamton SUNY
f. Dr. Keith Garbutt Dean, Oklahoma State HC
g. Dr. Andrea Radasanu Dir., Northern Illinois Honors Program
h. Dr. Paul Knox Founding Dean, Virginia Tech HC
i. Dr. Daniel Roberts Founding Dean, Virginia State HC
j. Dr. Ralph Keen Dean, Illinois Chicago HC
k. Dr. Mark Anderson Dean, UT-Rio Grande Valley HC
l. Dr. Kathy Cooke Dean, Southern Alabama HC
m. Dr. Jyostna Kapur Dir., Southern Illinois Honors Program
n. Dr. Timothy Nichols Dean, Montana (Davidson HC)
Session C Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Preparing Honors Students to Deal with Complexity and Uncertainty: A Transdisciplinary Course to Investigate the Eco-Social Emergency
a. Dr. Najla Miranda Mouchrek Virginia Tech
Session D Wednesday, 3:45-5 p.m.
1) The Role of Innovative Pedagogies in Increasing FSU Honors Students’ Resilience: How They
Thrived amid the Pandemic and Published Their Research
a. Dr. Azat Zana Gundogan Faculty, FSU Honors Program
2) Learning from Wrong Decisions: Student Reflection on Needs for Improvement after a Mock Trial (#8)
a. Dr. Robin Blom Assoc. Professor, Ball State
3) Integrating HIPs Across the Curriculum and Student Retention
a. Dr. Scott Breuninger Dean, VCU HC
Session E Thursday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) Us, Them, and the Power of WE: Honors Experiences and the Good of the University
a. Dr. Ross Moret Professor, FSU Honors Program
b. Delaney Williams Director, Power of WE
c. Gabriel Pfeuffer-Ferguson Branding Chair, Power of WE
2) The Justice and Equity Honors Network: Educational Foundations for Social Change
a. Dr. Joseph Ugoretz Sr. Assoc. Dean, CUNY (Macaulay HC)
b. Dr. Olga Idriss Davis Assoc. Dean, ASU (Barrett)
3) Considering Antiracism: Moving from Ideas to Action in Curriculum Development
a. Ms. Lauren DeJulio Bell Academic Advisor, Illinois-Chicago HC
b. Mr. Alex Sainvilier Academic Advisor, Illinois-Chicago HC
c. Two Illinois-Chicago students to be named later
Mental Health
Session A Thursday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Integrating Positive Mental Health Practices within the Honors Experience
a. Sally Foster Dir. of Center for Personal Development, Kentucky
b. Tamika Tompoulidis Personal Development Counselor, Kentucky (Lewis HC)
2) Addressing Fear of Failure and Related Mental Health Issues of Honors Students
a. Ms. Denise Lynch Coord. Of Programming, UNC Charlotte HC
3) Rediscovering Our Humanity by Starting with the Self: Mindfulness Meditation
a. Dr. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk Assoc. Dean, UAB HC
Recruitment and Admissions
Session A Thursday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Brave New World in Admissions: Virtual Recruitment Before and After COVID Lockdowns
a. Dr. Lynda Coon Dean, Arkansas HC
b. Dr. Noah Pittman Assoc. Dean, Arkansas HC
2) Strategic Enrollment Management: Using Data to Lead the Way (#37)
a. Dr. Carrie Connolly Assoc. Dean, VCU HC
Session B Wednesday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) The Experience of Alumni Interviews for First-Year Admissions
a. Mr. Benjamin Carr Admissions Counselor, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
2) Recruitment and UH’s Tier One Invitational
a. Dr. Brenda Rhoden Asst. Dean, Houston HC
b. Ms. Jennifer Hennessy Dir. of Admissions, Houston HC
Session C Wednesday, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1) Land Your Helicopter, Park Your Lawnmower: Dealing with Parents in Recruitment, Admissions, and
Undergraduate Family Relations
a. Ms. Mindy Hart Dir. of Recruitment and Admissions, Purdue HC
b. Mr. Brady Alumbaugh Recruitment Specialist, Purdue HC
c. Ms. Alyssa Wagner Honors Adviser, Purdue HC
2) Orienting Parents to Honors Education
a. Dr. Brenda Rhoden Asst. Dean, Houston HC
Session D Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 p.m.
1) Challenges and Efforts to Recruit a Diverse Class into Honors Colleges: A Roundtable Discussion
a. Dr. Deyo Olorunnisola Assoc. Dean, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Dr. Bess German Asst. Dean, Michigan State HC
2) Raising Capitals to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Honors Education
a. Dr. Lynette Yarger Asst. Dean, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
b. Mr. Sean Miller Sr. Dir. of Development, Penn State (Schreyer HC)
Undergraduate Research
Session A Wednesday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) Educating Leaders for a Humane World: Team Community-Based Research Projects
a. Ms. Chelsea Hodge Dir. of Grants and Research Innovation, Arkansas HC
b. Ms. Louise Hancox Dir. of Career Innovation, Arkansas HC
2) Strengthening Inclusivity and Collaboration through Undergraduate Research: The REACH Program
at the University of Houston
a. Dr. Ben Rayder Dir. of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards, UH
b. Dr. Rikki Bettinger Assoc. Dir., Undergraduate Research and Major Awards
Session B Wednesday, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1) Thinking Big in the Meantime: Co-Curricular Research and Writing Programs in the
Interdisciplinary Humanities
a. Dr. Rikki Bettinger Assoc. Dir., Undergraduate Research and Major Awards
b. Dr. Max Rayneard Assoc. Dir., Center for Creative Work, Houston HC
c. One unnamed Mellon Fellow and one unnamed FrameWorks Fellow
2) Creating Clarity and Direction: The Honors Thesis Pathway Model
a. Dr. Mary Ingram-Waters Asst. Dean, ASU (Barrett HC)
Session C Thursday, 9:45-11a.m.
1) Undergraduate Research Opportunities in a Classroom Context
a. Dr. Kenton Sena Lecturer, Kentucky (Lewis HC)
b. 2 students to be named later
2) Applying Multi-Mentor Models to Interdisciplinary Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
a. Dr. Andrew Kapral Dir. of Engaged Science Data, Houston HC
b. Dr. Dan Price Dir., Data and Society, Houston HC
c. Dr. Ioannis Konstantinidis Faculty, Houston HC
"Challenges Faced & Lessons Learned" Roundtables
1) Preventing crises in students’ mental health
2) Securing resources to expand Honors experiential learning programming
3) Framing the Honors value proposition to colleagues across campus
4) Keeping touch with Honors alumni (made more difficult because we share them)
5) Creating space for excellence in undergraduate education at a research university
6) Weighing faculty roles in student advising
7) Helping Honors students to become better writers
8) The costs and benefits of Honors in social media
9) Serving Honors students in their 2nd and 3rd year
10) Recruiting to Honors at the demographic cliff
11) Honors admissions in a test optional world