1. New Student orientation
Honors Program
New Student orientation
Eric Dubitsky, Katelyn Eisenhooth,
Jessica Hakes, Kari Wetzel

2. 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  Relativism
Baxter Magolda- Self-Authorship
Chickering’s Establishing Identity Vector & Developing mature relationships

3. Ice breaker ‘Gesture Your Name’
Erikson’s creating intimacy instead of isolation, overcoming barriers of familiarity.

4. 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.

5. 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
Kolb’s Learning Style Model

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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).

12. 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

13. 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)