Honors Council Holds Annual Meeting

The SAU Honors College Council and Honors College Committee held their annual meeting on Saturday, January 15, 2011. (Front row, L to R Jane Alexander, Virginia Todd, Deborah Wilson, JuJuan English, Timothy Wise, David Crouse; Back row, L to R Charles Elliott, Dale Dunn, Todd Connelly, Greg Jetton, David Peppers, Calvin Wyrick, Chris Gilliam (missing: Harold Fincher, Sherry Hawkins, Alvin Rucks, Shawn Krosnick, Jan Kiilsgaard)

The SAU Honors Council, a body composed of supporters of the Honors College, held their annual meeting at the D. R. Reynolds Campus and Community Center recently. They heard reports about recent activities and future plans. The meeting was followed by a sumptuous lunch hosted by ARAMARK.

Honors students Chris Harris and Majesta Miles attended as well and gave brief reports on student activities. 

Honors College future plans include:

• Taking students to the upcoming meeting of the Southern Regional Honors Council to be held in Little Rock from March 31 to April 2.
• Recruiting at least 50 new first year students into the Honors College
• Finalizing plans to move the Honors office into larger, more centrally located quarters
• Painting the halls in the Honors Hall to make them look less institutional
• Completing the computerized Honors College Student Information System
• Possibly providing iPad 2 tablets to all first year students and revamping the freshman seminar course to use that device to its full potential

  

New Furniture Installed in Honors Classroom

New tables and chairs grace Honors Hall classroom (photo by L. Hollensworth)

Thanks to SAU, new tables and chairs have been installed in the Honors Hall classroom. The tables came from local Magnolia business Southern Aluminum and were delivered in the early morning rain today. The chairs came from La Harpe's in Little Rock and were picked up a couple of weeks ago.

Special thanks go out to Lilli Hollensworth. She had to unwrap 26 chairs today. She also arranged the room.

A class was held here this afternoon (talk about just in time delivery). Kim Keith's Community Service Learning Experience class (SWK 2053) met this afternoon and will meet here again the next two Thursdays (presumably before hitting the community).

Let's all take special care of our new furniture. We won't be getting any more any time soon.

2010-2011 Enrollment Report

Here are the enrollment figures for the SAU Honors College.

Spring 2011 Enrollment report (as of January 14, 2011):

Full honors: 53— ANTH 5, ENGL 21, PSYC 27

Contracts: 30—BIOL 10, CHEM 4, CSCI 1, ENGL 4, ENGR 1, HIST 3, MATH 1, PSYC 6

Fall 2010 Enrollment report

Full honors: 73—HC 54, ANTH 5*, HIST 14

Contracts: 36—ANTH 5, BIOL 20, CHEM 2, CRJU 1, CSCI 2, ECE 2, HUM 1, PSCI 2, PSYC 3

New Chairs for Honors Hall Classroom

Thirty chairs in the back of Clay's pickup

The view from the back, fortunately I did not need my rearview mirror!

I took a quick trip to Little Rock today to pick up 30 new chairs for the SAU Honors College classroom located in the Honors Hall. Ten new tables are on their way too. But, those will come from Southern Aluminum only a short distance away.

The Honors College picked up the chairs in order to save a $600 delivery charge. We're in the wrong business. David and I stacked the chairs in the Honors Hall classroom this afternoon. It's interesting how varied the job description of honors staff is. Today we ordered four iPads, began admitting new students, set the menu for the upcoming Honors Council meeting, and picked up and stacked chairs. 

Need to pass along our thanks to DM for making the chairs a reality.