HAC honors summary 2012

Honors Advisory Council Meeting

May 11-12, 2012
Tim Mckay
Director, LSA Honors Program
5/11/2012 Honors Advisory Council Meeting 1

Schedule for this meeting
Friday Afternoon • 6:30: Dinner at the
• 1-2:30: Honors Kelsey
overview Saturday Morning
• 2:30-3:00: Break • 9-10: Breakfast at
• 3-4: Learning Analytics Honors
Initiatives • 10-11:30: Discussion of
• 4-5: Break priorities, ideas, and
• 5-6:30: Tours of the plans for development
Kelsey Museum and alumni connections


Intro to the Honors Program
• Connecting • Two principal facets:
academically minded – Interdisciplinary,
students with UM’s best classroom oriented,
opportunities living/learning
community for freshman
• Some we encourage and sophomores
and create, most – More specialized,
already exist research oriented
• Helping students make program of honors
the most of their four concentrations for
juniors and seniors
years on campus


Honors People

John Cantu
Housing and Events

Donna Wessel-Walker
Associate Director Daniel Kim
Communications Asst.
Elleanor Crown
Acad. Advisor/Scholarships

Vicki Davinich
Office Manager

Mary Mageski
Program Assistant
Gayle Green
Assistant Director
?
Jacqueline Turkovich
Academic Auditor
Tim McKay: Director

Aspects of 1st & 2nd year HP
• Admission • Great Books
• Orientation and Kickoff – Long-standing shared
classroom experience
• Housing:
– Contemplating gradual
– Special Honors RAs and change in this
enhanced dorm life
• General courses
• Advising
– Department offerings
– HP staff
– Special opportunities
– Graduate student created by Honors
preceptors from various
fields


Honors for freshmen and soph.
• Students selected from • Selecting well prepared,
UM accepted pool motivated students
• 1381 HP essays received – 72% are at 3.5+ after first
from admitted students year (35% in LSA)
– 34% are at 3.8+ after first
• 979 accepted, 517 year (11% in LSA)
enrolled
• We don’t identify all the
– Limited by housing space
highest performers:
– Great Books lecture hall
among the 3.8+, 161 are
• Roughly 12% of the full in 1st year Honors, but
LSA class of 4175 449 are not


Admissions this year?
• UM shifted to the • Essay prompts
“Common App” in 2010 1. You arrive at one of your classes to find the
room/lecture hall unexpectedly empty. In the
room you find a potato, a book, and a tube of
• Overall UM applications paint. Why are those things there, what is the
connection, and where did everyone go?
rose again this year, to 2. Write a letter to the Nobel Prize committee in
Sweden nominating your choice for the next
more than 42,000 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Your
nominee may be from contemporary life or
• About 42% admitted from history, but may not be a Nobel laureate
in any field already.
(about 11,000 in LSA) 3. Explain unicorns.
4. The national election of 2008 was widely
• 1402 submitted Honors regarded as a landmark election. Do you
expect the national election of 2012 to be a
application essays landmark? Why or why not?
5. What is good science?


Admissions 2012 1800
Review of applications
1600
1400

• All 1381 applications 1200
1000 Essays Received

reviewed closely 800
600
Invited
Incoming class
400

• Admission offered to 200
0

979 students (71%) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Yield
• Honors accepted by 517 0.60 0.54 0.53
0.48
(Yield of 53%, 12% of 0.50
0.40 0.32
0.45

incoming LSA students) 0.30
0.20
Yield

• Only 6 chose UM, but
0.10
0.00
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
declined Honors
Overall LSA yield 38% in 2012


Student demographics stable
2008 2012

Male Male
46% 46%
Female Female
54% 54%
2008 2012
URM
URM None 5% None
3% 15% 10%

Asian Asian
18% 24% White
White
64% 61%


Residency shift for Honors students
Residency 2008 Residency 2009 Residency 2010 Residency 2011

Out of Out of
state Out of
state
35% state
38% Out of
42% In
In In state
state
In state state 47%
53%
state 62% 58%
65%

Residency 2012
This significant shift mirrors
University-wide enrollment trends:
from 64% in state in 2008 to 55% in Out of
state
47%
In state
53%

state in 2011

• Housing:
enhanced dorm life
• General courses
• Advising
– HP staff
fields


Orientation and Kickoff
Fall 2012
• New students come by Fall 2011

the dozen for
orientation all summer
– Setting the tone
– Selecting courses
• Honors kickoff
– All day activities at the
start of fall term
– Constructed around a
collective reading 2011 National Book Award Nomination:
“Redniss’ achievement is a celebration of
the essential power of books to
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Orientation Discussions….

Kickoff


• Housing:
enhanced dorm life
• General courses
• Advising
– HP staff
fields


Honors Housing
• HP is the largest
living/learning program
on campus
• All students currently in
South Quad
• Move to West Quad for
one year (2013/14)
while renovations are
underway


• Housing:
enhanced dorm life
• General courses
• Advising
– HP staff
fields


Honors advising
• Extensive, personal
advising plays a key role
• Experienced staff connect
students to the best
campus opportunities
• This is costly: we are
seeking an additional
advisor position and
continuing with graduate
student preceptors


• Housing:
enhanced dorm life
• General courses
• Advising
– HP staff
fields


Courses: Great Books 191 and 192
• Core experience for HP
freshmen for decades
• Life explored through
ancient Greek literature
• Extensive reading and
writing: FYW course Mira Seo
Associate Professor of Classical
• Taught by Mira Seo for Studies and Comparative Literature
the last two years and B.A. Swarthmore '95
again next B.A. Christ Church, Oxford '98
M.A., Ph.D. Princeton '04

Considering an expansion of the core
• Exploring an expanded • Extensive discussions
core: enriching the with faculty led by
Honors experience for DWW
freshmen while • Planning in process for
retaining flexibility development and
• Meet a part of each delivery of these new
distribution courses
requirement with a • Making the first two
keystone Honors course years more distinctive…


Honors Courses
• Many courses created • Honors enables many
by concentrations for unique new courses
Honors students – Honors Initiative Courses
– Freshman seminars – Honors 250’s
– Small intro courses – Honors 135 Courses:
– Honors sections of large taught by Honors seniors
lecture classes to incoming Freshmen
• Students also convert • Developing these is a
many classes to Honors service we provide to
the college…


Course examples
Faculty led Courses Honors 135 Courses
– Creativity in the Sciences and • You call THAT art? - Modern
the Arts Steve Ragsdale problems in pop culture Alex
– The Symphonic Brown
Century: Music and • “Text HAITI to 90999”:
Revolution in the 19th Century Contemporary Debates in Aid and
Naomi Andre Development Kevin Carney
– Cyberscience: Computational • The National Parks--America's
Science and the Rise of the Best Idea? Robin Czerwinski
Fourth Paradigm Gus Evrard • Abstain, Be Faithful, and Use a
– History of American Condom: the Ugandan HIV/AIDS
Magazines June Howard Campaign Sherry Shen
This really should grow!

Lunch with 9/14/2011
9/23/2011
Global Climate Change
Cunning
Perry Samson
Don Herzog

Honors 10/20/2011
Author of book about Elly
Peterson, moderate Republican
Sara Fitzgerald

10/24/2011 His new book on addiction Howard Markel
• We bring many 10/27/2011 Crime, Women & Wrong Sara Paretsky
11/3/2011 Work of OECD, int'l development Kathleen DeBoer
interesting people 11/7/2011 Life on Mars Nilton Renno
to Honors for visits 11/30/2011 His life & work Albert Ammerman

• These lunches 1/11/2012 Revolution in the Library Paul Courant

provide first hand 2/13/2012
Are Unions crucial to Social Justice
and Democracy?
Bob King

contact for 2/21/2012 Is Big Brother Watching You? David McKeague

students 3/13/2012 Behind the Scenes at RSC Jeremy Adams
3/14/2012 Becoming a Writer James Fenton
• Typical cost: ~$500 3/15/2012 A Small Chance of Extinction John Broome
3/27/2012 Can Obama avoid war in Iran? Juan Cole


UM Professor
Arlene Saxonhouse UAW President Bob King

Judge David
McKeague


Power Center for the
Performing Arts: March 29

TEDxUofM encourages and empowers students to pursue their own crazy ideas.

TEDxUofM is that “Ah-Ha” moment, the connection of the isolated neuron, the point
of discovery.


Upper Division Honors
• Graduating with • Among the students
Honors: requirements who will accomplish
defined by this
concentrations – About one third entered
– Strong classroom honors as freshmen
performance – About two thirds join us
– Extra coursework for later in their career
breadth or depth – Concentrations largely
– Original scholarship: mirror college
expressed in a thesis enrollments


Senior theses
• Producing new • Entry into this process
scholarship: very varies widely
different from – Some programs
coursework (English, History, Political
Science) have formal
• Students work in processes
labs, research
– Others (esp. the
history, analyze sciences) don’t
texts, write poetry
• In every case, this is
• Thesis work requires extracurricular, different
personal interaction with from the classroom
faculty

Some senior thesis examples…
• Dissent and Division in Climate • Hot Cognition: Effects of Emotion
Change Policy Seth Buchsbaum on Interference Resolution in
• How Much Is Enough?: Measuring Working Memory Nina Massad
Agency and Criminal Responsibility
• Ecosystem Recovery Analysis of
Among African-Americans Elizabeth
Carter
Amos Palmer Drain, in
Milan, Michigan Laura Fields-
• The Effects of Health and Marital
Support on Subjective Well-being in
Sommers
Midlife and Old Age Rachel Throop • An Analysis of the Term Structure
• The Schädellehre, Phrenology, and of Interest Rates Daniel Hermes
Popular Science Benjamin Throesch • Cross-Correlation Between Halo
• Oil Companies and Sustainability: Mass and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
More than Just an Image? Dana Effect in the Millennium Gas
Schweitzer Simulation Seth Siegel


The importance of thesis research
• Thesis projects require • For those who complete
participation in a field it, the experience is
of study transformative…
• Even excellent students • We would like to fully
are remarkably ill- recognize the
prepared to do this importance of this
• It requires work: electronic
entrepreneurial courage archiving of all honors
and action theses in Deep Blue


Why so few? 450
Honors graduates

• 500 enter Honors each
400

year and many more are 350

~40% increase
capable of joining 300

• We should have 500+ 250

• Expand graduates from 200

both through 150
– Information: orientation on
100
– Recruiting: outside our
entering class 50

– Support: Honors Summer 0
Fellows (More to come…) 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Honors graduates


The Third Century Initiative
• President Coleman has • The senior thesis
committed $50M to process is a banner
two goals example of learning-by-
– development of creative doing
approaches to the • Independent real-world
world’s greatest
work will become
challenges and
opportunities embedded in the
– action-based immersive curriculum during the
learning experiences coming decade


Graduation Awards
Patricia Kennedy Award:
Honors also helps to prepare
Belle Devlin Cheves, History
many students for national
Virginia Voss Writing Awards and international scholarship
Academic writing:
Katherine Jean Bies, Communications Studies and Political Science
competitions like
Emma Claire Lawton, History Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, C
Erika Lynn Mayer, Political Science hurchill, and Goldwater
Victoria Carley Moses, Anthropological Archaeology scholarships
Addie Cherice Shrodes, English
Creative Nonfiction: Beth Louise Jakubowski, Anthropology
Poetry: Sarah Shoshanna Kunjummen, English/Creative Writing and Classical Languages & Literatures

Goldstein Prizes:
The Robert Hayden Humanities Award – Douglas Alan Rottmann, Classical Languages & Literatures
The Jerome and Isabella Karle Award in Physical Sciences– Sean Michael Collins, Chemistry & Piano Performance
The Stephen Smale Award in Mathematical Sciences -- Alexander James Carney
The Marshall Nirenberg Award in Life Sciences - Eileen Rose Brandes, Biology
The Marshall Sahlins Social Science Award – Mary Mari Birkett, Anthropology and Seth Soderborg, Political Science
The Gerald Ford Public Policy and Service Award – Robin Czerwinski, Program in the Environment
The Arthur Miller Arts Award – Perry Janes, Screen Arts and Cultures
The Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award – Julie Bateman, ICP, International Natural Resource Studies
The Sidney Fine Teaching Award – Anniejae Erwine Fischburg, Mathematics


Graduation
changes
• The upper division
program has expanded • Next year we will move
substantially to a new space: either
• We have outgrown our the Rackham
traditional graduation Auditorium or the
space: the Michigan Power Center
Union Ballroom
• This year we had to
issue tickets…

Rankings of Public Honors Programs
• Public University Press • First ever rankings
rankings of fifty Honors released on 4/18/2012 “A
Programs Review of Fifty Public
– The perception of the University Honors
university as a Programs”
whole, using U.S.
News data.
1. University of Michigan
– Honors curriculum
2. University of Virginia
3. Univ. of Texas at Austin
– Prestigious scholarships
4. UNC Chapel Hill
– Honors residence halls
5. Arizona State Univ.


New alumni connection: the bookshelf
• Recent grad Anna • We will be creating an
Mickols has begun a list online listing, with a
of books written by UM form allowing people to
Honors Alums add books they have
• Identified 1090 so far written to our list
• Purchased a few
hundred for physical
display in the Honors
Office


Development: what are our needs?
• We exist to enable • What can we improve?
students to make the – Maximize participation of
most of UM students in original
research and scholarship
• We do this primarily using
– Free up students to pursue
the resources UM already the best extra-curricular
has (faculty, research opportunities
facilities, etc.) – Make the best possible use
• We are a catalyst for the of Michigan’s great faculty
adoption of what is new – Maintain the freedom to
and better for the college run student programming


Development: How are we doing?
• Much of what is best • In Fiscal 2007 and 2008
about what we do is we averaged
supported by donors $214K/year
– Housing enhancements • In Fiscal 2009 and 2010
– Thesis and International we averaged
support $282K/year
– Special Events: LWH etc.
• In 2011, $384K total
– Grants for 135 courses
• So far in 2012 $368K so
– New programs of all
kinds far (9 months, we might
expect ~$480K)

Development Progress
$500,000

$450,000

$400,000

$350,000

$300,000

$250,000

$200,000

$150,000

$100,000

$50,000

$-
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 (9 months) 2012 (Projected)


The Honors Summer Fellows Program
• To increase the number of • HSF Program grew from
Honors graduates discussions with Honors
– Provide the expectation Faculty Council
and explain the motivation • Build a fellowship
– Raise the profile program mirroring more
– Provide real resources advanced academic
• Bring the mission of fellowships
encouraging this back – Freedom to work
into Honors – Community of scholarship
– An honor


The first cohorts of HSF
• Support identified in • Candidates reviewed by
March 2010 the Faculty Council and
• Application process program staff
quickly developed • Selected in equal
– Background numbers from
– Student research Humanities, Natural
proposal Sciences, and Social
– Faculty support letter Sciences
• Mirrors other • 24 in 2010, 38 in 2011
fellowships (too large…), 24 in 2012


Activities of the Program
• Kickoff camping • Fellows meet several
• Weekly 2 hour meetings requirements
to report progress and – Continuous work toward
discuss research across their thesis
the disciplines – Participation in the
fellows program
• Interdisciplinary faculty
– Presentations on their
panels through the thesis process to
summer incoming Honors
• Access to UM resources students


The future for HSF
• Would like a stable • To run the program for
program for around 25 10 years would require
students per year (5% ~$1M expendable
of graduates…) • To endow the program
• Cost for student permanently would
stipends ~$125K/year require ~$2.5M
• Establishing a stable • Currently: more or less
HSF program is my main secure commitments
goal for the near term for around $650K


What I’m looking for
• Advice on how best to • Discussions tomorrow
meet all of our morning around a plan:
development need To more deeply engage
• Some insight into the a wider circle of Alumni
world of internships in major cities, both for
• Ideas for how to engage the benefit of those
alumni: what will make Alumni as well as to
them want to identify enrich the LSA Honors
with the program? program in a variety of
ways


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