Honors programs at big universities

donnaleighg
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:55:05 +0000

I taught as an adjunct at a medium size, medium (being generous) prestige, private university last fall. I taught a small, evening class. There was one kid in my class who had on his signature line that he was in the Honors College of the school. He was certainly among my top students in the class–clearly bright and motivated. But there he was, in the same class as the other kids, some of whom were way less qualified, and way less motivated. He got an A, no question, but I wonder what he was really getting out of the “Honors College” experience.