HONORS Information for Faculty and Instructors

Become an Honors Faculty Fellow

The UMKC Honors Program invites you to apply to be a Faculty Fellow for two years, FS 2008-10. We will select two tenure-track or tenured faculty members, committed to undergraduate education, to collaborate with the students and Director of the Honors Program. The stipend for this position is $2500 per year. During your fellowship you will:

teach one honors-only seminar, ideally as a general education course (max. of 20 students; part of regular teaching load),
advise those honors students in your department or unit,
participate in four honors events each semester (often held at the Honors Living/Learning Community at Oak Street Hall),
oversee one larger project, to be decided upon in conjunction with the students and the Director. Examples could include: overseeing the Honors Community Service Partnership (see http://cas.umkc.edu/honors/academy.html for more information); heading up the Honors Student Advisory Committee; acting as faculty advisor for Lucerna, etc.
attend the weekly Honors Colloquium (Wed. 3-3h50 during the academic year).

See our website for more information: http://cas.umkc.edu/honors/

Please send the following items, electronically or by interdepartmental mail, to Prof. Gayle Levy Honors Program Director, 211 Scofield Hall:

a one-page explanation addressing why you want to be an Honors Faculty Fellow, ideas for the class you would teach, and some examples of projects you might want to coordinate,
a one-page CV,
a short paragraph from your department chair or dean attesting to their support of your participation in this program.

Applications are due by 1 May 2008. Please contact Gayle Levy (levyg@umkc.edu / 235-2820) with any questions.

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TO: UMKC Faculty

FROM: Prof. Gayle Levy

Director of Honors Program

SUBJECT: Courses Contracted for Honors Credit
This gets copied on the back of the Honors Contracts

A student in the Honors Program has asked to take your course for honors credit.

Only a few courses are taught each term exclusively as honors seminars. Honors students need to supplement these courses with regular courses of their choice in which they do alternative and/or supplemental work for honors credit. Professors participate in the program on a voluntary basis. If you are willing to allow your course to be taken for honors credit please discuss the supplemental work that is to be done with the student and fill out the attached form. The student is responsible for returning a copy of the Honors Contract to the Honors Director by the end of the fourth week of the semester. Contracts should be completed by the end of the term.

It is up to you to decide whether the supplemental work completed by the student merits the honors credit. I suggest that you meet with the student a few weeks before the end of the semester to discuss the student�s progress on the honors project and to assess what still needs to be done so that you feel comfortable awarding the honors credit to the student. If, after you have made clear your expectations, the student still does not meet them, you have every right to withhold the honors credit.

If the student receives a grade of B or better in the class and submits an �Honors Completion Form,� signed by you, the student will receive honors credit.

If you wish to set up a special honors discussion section, lab, etc. that would include students who are not a part of the honors program but who could profit from an honors experience and whom you think should get honors credit, please let me know and I�ll handle the paperwork. (Students who are not a part of the Honors Program can receive honors credit in specific courses, without planning to graduate with honors).

Please feel free to contact me at 235-2820 or levyg@umkc.edu if you have any questions.

Many thanks for your assistance.

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