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Our blog serves several purposes. One is to provide information about Honors College activities. Another is to publish essays written by honors students in their first honors course, Honors Seminar.

Here are some of the topics covered by this blog:

• Activities
• Projects
• Visitors
• Trips

Thank you for visiting our blog.

For more information, contact the Director, Dr. Edward P. Kardas. Cell: (870) 904-8897 or e-mail at epkardas@saumag.edu

Honors Council Meets

Here is the agenda for the recent Honors Council meeting. A more comprehensive report and pictures will be posted soon.

Honors Council Meeting/January 8, 2012

Welcome to SAU: Dr. David Rankin
Introduction of Dean of LPA: Dr.Trey Berry
Introduction of SAU Honors Committeefaculty: Karen Ferneding, Shawn Krosnick, Deborah Wilson, Tim Wise
Introduction of Honors staff: David Wingfield, Suraj Manandhar, Lilli Hollensworth, Inna Bagaeva
Introduction of SAU Honors College students: Courtney Phillips, Zachary Pinson

Spring 2012 Enrollment report (as of 01-05-2012):

Full honors: 47— ANTH 5, ENGL 20, PSYC 22

Contracts: 52—ACCT 2, ANTH 4, BIOL 22, CSCI 1, ENGL 3, HIST 3, MKTG 1, PSYC 10, SOC 4, SPAN 1,THEA 1

Fall 2011 Enrollment report

Full honors: 81—HC 60, PHIL 14 , US HIST 7

Contracts: 68—ACCT 3, BIOL 32, CSCI 4, ENGR 1, FIN 1, HIST 6, HUM 9, MGMT 2, MKTG 2, PSCI 2, PSYC 6

National Collegiate Honors Council meeting, Phoenix: Suraj Manandhar, Deborah Wilson, Ed Kardas

Using the Non-Cognitive Questionnaire in Honors College Admissions and Retention: A Two-year Study
An iPad2 for Every Student in Honors Seminar: A Pilot Program
NASA Research Infrastructure Grant: Courtney Phillips, Zachary Pinson, Ed Kardas ($10,000 grant)

Upcoming Events:

Honors Banquet—Saturday, April 28 @ 6 p.m.,
Honors Matriculation—Sunday, August 26 @ 2 p.m. (tentative)

Fall 2011 highlights: Full enrollment (60), Pool Party, iPads deployed, Dustin McDaniel speaks at matriculation, Chinese National Acrobats, Little Rock trip, NCHC meeting in Phoenix, Honors Research Database, faculty teaching meeting
See: peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/Courses/HonSem/honorsblogstoriesfall2010.html

Future plans: Trip to Cuba! Move into honors office and lounge in Nelson Hall. Begin honors programs at two-year schools. Name the Honors College.

Questions or Comments?

Group Picture and Lunch (Special Thanks to Ray Lindsey of Marlars)

Tour Nelson 200

Magnolia/Columbia County Literacy Council Needs Help

Magnolia/Columbia Literacy Council’s Teen Tutoring Program is in dire need of additional funding. This program was formed in 2001 when the literacy council tested 60 teens (16-17 year olds) to see if they qualified for the GED program and only 3 made the scores necessary to enroll according to state law. The literacy council recognized that something needed to be done about this problem and initiated the teen tutoring program to tutor these teens until they could score the required 8.5 (eighth grade, fifth month). Since that time approximately 70 teens have graduated. These teens would never have graduated without the teen tutoring program.


This vital program exists on grants and donations only. THE LITERACY COUNCIL NEEDS HELP. No federal or state money goes toward its support. THEY are $15,000.00 short of what it will take to run a morning and an afternoon class this year.


Peoples Bank Community Enrichment Endowment through the Arkansas Community Foundation has chosen to match dollar for dollar every contribution UP TO $5,000 made to this program before February 28, 2012. Thanks to the generous donations of $1,500.00 from the Rotary Club of Magnolia and another anonymous donor giving $1,500.00 our funds for matching are NOW up to $3,600.00. YOU MAY HELP BY DONATING AND spreadING the word TO OTHERS about THE NEEDS OF THIS very worthy cause.


Checks (tax deductible) mail to: Magnolia/Columbia County Literacy Council, P.O. Box 1440 Magnolia, AR 71754-1440. For more information call 870-901-6028.

Help, there's a gorilla in my room

Took this recently. Wonder if he watches me while I sleep?

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