What is an Honors Student?

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dc.contributor.authorFreyman, Jay
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-12T19:12:29Z
dc.date.available2018-09-12T19:12:29Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionJournal of the National Collegiate Honors Councilen_US
dc.description.abstractIt is first necessary to recognize the distinction between the questions “What is an honors student?” or better “What are the characteristics of an honors student?” and “How do you recognize a student with those characteristics?” The first of these two questions is easier to approach since it is more a matter of prescription than of description, a presentation of an ideal rather than a recognition of an actual state. We can all list characteristics which we would like or expect those special students to have who are worthy in our estimation of the designation “honors.” These expectations, I submit, are often informed by our own experiences as honors students ourselves or in association with others, when we were in college, who were considered to be honors students by official or by general agreement. It is quite another matter, however, to be able to detect, directly or indirectly, the presence of those qualities which constitute the character of an honors student; they may or may not be readily evident and, it seems, very often are not so. In my admittedly anecdotal experience, so-called objective criteria for judging the quality of students fail quite miserably when it comes to predicting success in honors curricula.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/154/en_US
dc.format.extent9 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articleen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M22R3P12P
dc.identifier.citationJay Freyman, What is an Honors Student?, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 6:2, Fall/Winter 2005. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/154/en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/11281
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDigital Commonsen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAthe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Ancient Studies Department Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Honors College
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dc.subjectPersonality of Honors Studenten_US
dc.subjectdisqualifications from honors worken_US
dc.subjectcharacteristics of Honors Studenten_US
dc.subjectattitude of honors student
dc.titleWhat is an Honors Student?en_US
dc.title.alternativeWhat is an Honors Studenten_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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