Bring Numerous Benefits to Your College with the Honors Seminar Series Beginning September 23 - Subscribe Today!
Colleges across the country and around the globe have already registered
for the 2008 Honors
Seminar Series, which begins September 23. This is the last week
to subscribe and receive the Honors Seminars live on your campus, although
downloads of the seminar presentations will continue to be available for
purchase.
College administrators, honors directors and Phi
Theta Kappa chapters have discovered that subscribing to the series provides
a cost-effective way to bring four renowned academic speakers to their
campuses.
This complete speaker series, which is broadcast
live via satellite and available through online video downloads and web
stream, features four interactive presentations on topics including
Doctors
Without Borders and the connections between a borderless world and wealth,
health, and poverty; pathways
out of poverty through green collar jobs;
the geography of bliss; and archaeological
evidence for the origins of affluence. The 2008 Honors Seminars
are based on issues related to Phi Theta Kappa's 2008-10 Honors
Study Topic, The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges,
and Consequences.
Dates for the live broadcast of the 2008
Honors Seminar Series are September 23, October 7, October 21, and November
18. The seminars are also offered via online video download and web stream.
In the week following the broadcast, subscribing institutions will have
access to download the seminar online and burn it to a DVD/CD for future use.
Downloads of the honors seminar series will continue to be available to
purchase until late January 2009. Visit the Honors Seminar website to subscribe.
Colleges
all over the country have already subscribed to the series and are making
plans to utilize these programs as a centerpiece for their college's honors
programs, chapter Hallmark Awards goals, and as a means to bring their entire
campus and community together.
* At Northeast State Community
College in Tennessee, the Phi Theta Kappa chapter partners with the Honors
Program to sponsor the Series. Instructors incorporate the presentations
into their courses and have students write response papers following each
seminar.
* Students at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey
research the topics to be discussed during the seminars and create PowerPoint
presentations, which they show prior to each seminar as an introduction
and conversation-starter.
* To encourage attendance at their
presentations of the Honors Seminar Series, students at Harry S. Truman
College in Illinois partner with the college book store to give away a TI-83
calculator for one lucky attendee at each seminar.
* Students
at both Butte College in California and North Central State College in Ohio
hold essay contests in conjunction with the Honors Seminar Series to encourage
students to reflect on the themes discussed in the seminars.
Two-year
college administrators have also realized that the Honors Seminar Series
is an extremely effective recruiting tool. Inviting high school students
to view the series serves as a powerful attraction to students searching
for the college that can offer them the best academic opportunities. Even
if your institution does not have an established Honors Program, the Honors
Seminar Series can set your college apart from the rest by showing that you
have the academic edge that these bright students are looking for -- learning
opportunities outside the traditional classroom, an interactive learning
experience and quality academic programming.
To take advantage
of this opportunity to use technology to bring four renowned speakers to
your campus this fall for just pennies per student, visit the Honors Seminar
Series website.
Learn how to subscribe,
discover what a subscription includes, explore the benefits of the series,
and view highlights from the 2007 Honors Seminar Series.
Contact
Tria Cohen for more
information at 601.984.3515.
