NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION

Honors Program

Eric Dubitsky, Katelyn Eisenhooth, Jessica Hakes, Kari Wetzel

WHAT IS HONORS?

Honors programs assist students with exceptional promise who hope to make meaningful contributions to society

Honors programs promotes academic excellence, engages students in the development of ethical global perspectives, promotes civic involvement and encourages leadership development

The central goal of Honors education is academic enrichment; honors programs are based on how student profit from close contact with faculty, smaller courses, seminars, etc.

Perry’s Dualism Multiplicity RelativismBaxter Magolda- Self-AuthorshipChickering’s Establishing Identity Vector & Developing mature relationships

ICE BREAKER

‘Gesture Your Name’

Erikson’s creating intimacy instead of isolation, overcoming barriers of familiarity.

PRESIDENT AND DEANS OF THE COLLEGE

Question and answer session.

You are more than a number.

Schlossberg’s Marginalizing and Mattering – students are important and we care about your development from the top down.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING Team-building

Directions Cup Pyramid Activity Preventing, managing and

surviving conflict Role-play with different

situations Group activity with a Conflict

Case Study

•Teambuilding for success using Kolb’s Learning Style Model to help students to develop strategies and tools to work effectively on a team of many different people.•Chickering’s Seven Vector Theory: Competence-interpersonal•Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument – help students understand conflict and how to resolve it in the best way possible•Chickering’s Seven Vector Theory: Competence-interpersonal•Kolb’s Learning Style Model

DIVERSITY TRAINING What is diversity?

Group exercise: Diversity Chain Meet representatives from different

diversity groups on campus. Discussion Panel about campus

diversity and about how to get involved in these diversity groups

•Sanford’s Differentiation and Integration Theory •Schlossberg’s Marginalization and Mattering  Theory•Chickering’s Fourth Vector – Developing Mature Relationships•Feldman and Newcomb’s Peer Learning Theory•Astin’s Theory of Involvement

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? (REFLECTIVE ACTIVITY)

Turban-wearing applicant rejected

Harmless joke or cyber-bullying

Interracial couple harassed Group discussion to follow

this exercise•King and Kitchener’s reflective judgment model,• Kohlberg’s theory of moral development,• Perry’s Intellectual Development Theory

ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT

Discovering academic options and majors available on campus. Kolb’s Learning Assessment.

To learn your own learning styles. Peer Mentors

Sanford – create a challenging and supportive environment Perry- moving from "dualism to relativism" Feldman/Newcomb – Student needs (peers and faculty)

CAREER SERVICES Take Myers/Briggs Personality Test Understand careers available within your chosen major

Chickering – Developing purpose. Myers/Briggs – how individuals orient themselves to the world and how they relate to the

environment Holland- vocational personality type Magolda- Self authorship

ACADEMIC ADVISING Meet with Director of Academic Advising.

Learning how to register for classes.

Chickering – Developing Autonomy & Developing Purpose Magolda- Self authorship. Sanford- Challenge & Support. Schlossberg- margilization and mattering

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Required service projects as part of honors program.

Opportunities for service. Think of one service

opportunity to complete as a class this semester.

Think of one service opportunity to complete as an individual.

Schlossberg – marginality/mattering. Erikson (stage 7) – generativity vs. stagnation (engaging self and providing other opportunity through service).

CREATIVE THINKING Innovative solutions- providing tools for the students to creatively solve issues.

Think of a current problem that effects you or your world and create solution

Sanford – Creating a challenging and supportive environment. Perry – Moving students from a dualism to relativism. King & Kitchener- Reflective Judgment Model

PEER DINNER Dinner in the dinning hall Guest Speaker – Dr. Ndamukong Suh

– Director Stress Management Cleveland Clinic

Chickering – creating meaningful relationships.

Erikson (stage 6) – intimacy vs. isolation (establishing relationships with others)