Honors in Action

2. Honors in Action Transform Your Chapter’s Approach to the Honors Study Topic

4. Outcomes & Benefits of Honors in Action • Engage in interdisciplinary inquiry • Widen the mind • Raise global intelligence • Practice the art of informed dialogue • Break the complexity barrier • Experience deep learning

5. Academic Investigation • Select Issue in Honors Program Guide • Establish Objectives • Create a Research Team • Investigate the Theme as it relates to the Honors Study Topic • Use academic sources – a variety of viewpoints • Analyze Research • From research – determine action (project)

6. Be sure your HORSE (Honors Study Topic Research) comes before your CART (Action)!

7. Determine Action Scholarship is of worth chiefly when it is productive, when the scholar not merely receives or acquires, but gives. ~ T. Roosevelt, The Outlook, 1/13/12

8. Action and Collaboration • Develop a Project Plan • Carry Out Action/Project Plan • Review Plan Often as Project Progresses • Evaluate your Results

9. Leadership Roles & Leadership Development • Brainstorm • Organize • Determine specific leadership development needed to successfully complete this project • Collaborate • Communicate

10. Reflection • Keep an Honors in Action journal • Consider how you grew as scholars and leaders • Consider future implications • Write, edit (edit again), and submit 2014 Hallmark Awards

11. Questions?