The Current Landscape of the Honors Experience – On-Demand Training

Help Today’s Student Succeed – and Exceed

Higher education administrators attempt to balance the pressures to contain costs with the desire to fund high impact practices that have been shown to positively shape student success.

Our expert presenter will offer solutions and strategies for communicating the value of honors education to key stakeholders, as well as best practices and what’s working in honors programs for today’s students. The webinar will consider the audiences that advocates for Honors education need to hear from; what types of messages resonate with each of these audiences; and how best to communicate the return on investment when each audience chooses to invest their time, money, and other resources in Honors education.

Be able to determine how to best continue meeting today’s accelerated students’ needs through the exploration of programming and structural options for honors initiatives, while also being able to communicate the value of an honors education. 

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Better communicate the value of honors education to key stakeholders as a highly impactful educational experience that contributes to student success.
• Understand what matters to others – including prospective students and their families – and use their language to make a convincing case for honors education.
• Explore programming and structural options for honors education initiatives and programs that will best meet today’s students’ needs.
• Garner attention and support for human and fiscal funds by helping legislators, donors, alumni and other key decision makers to understand why honors education. 
  

Presenter

Jonathan Williamson, Ph.D. is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Faculty Affairs and Michael Andrew Little Professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston.
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