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Academic Task Force - Undergraduate Reform: Honors

Mission

Create a new campus-wide undergraduate honors program to attract to the University students of high caliber who otherwise might not have given the University serious consideration and to allow these students the freedom to pursue their interests in any undergraduate college of the University.

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding the optimal design, structure, and organization of a campus-wide honors program.

• Recommendations as to whether a specific curriculum should be designed for the honors students, such as the Grand Challenges curriculum suggested in the Academic Task Force Report.
• Recommendations regarding whether and how the new honors program should be connected to professional fast track programs.
• Recommendations regarding the role of current college-based honors programs vis-à-vis a campus-wide program.
• Recommendations regarding how to strengthen lower division honors offerings.
• Recommendations regarding strengthening extra-curricular, co-curricular, and international programming and opportunities for honors students.
• Recommendations regarding how to increase the availability of undergraduate research opportunities for students in the honors program.
• Recommendations on how to improve the recruitment, retention, teaching, mentoring, and housing of honor students.
• Recommendations regarding how students admitted into the honors program should be recognized on campus and upon graduation.

Report due: December 10, 2005

Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs G. David Tilman, Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair, EEB, CBS Kathryn Sikkink, Professor, Political Science, CLA Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Eugene Borgida Professor, Psychology, CLA Erika Lee Associate Professor, History, CLA Robert Ruekert Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Professor, Marketing/Logistics Mgmt, CSOM Leslie Schiff Professor, Microbiology, Medical John Archer Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, CLA Megan Williams Undergraduate student, Aerospace, Eng/Mech, IT Robert Tranquillo Professor, Biomedical Engineering, IT Mary Eliasen Undergraduate student, Political Science, CLA

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