National Society for Minorities in Honors (NSFMIH)

 

The Honors College at the University of Arkansas welcomes you to the 8th Annual National Society for Minorities in Honors Conference, which will take place on the University of Arkansas campus between October 25-27, 2023. 

 Why Honors?

The value of an honors education for students from underrepresented backgrounds

 We are accepting proposals that address how we demystify the honors experience for students and how we can communicate or reassess the value of an honors education for students from diverse backgrounds and interests. We also welcome proposals of general interest to the NSFMIH community. Honors administrators, educators and students are invited to submit proposals.

 Learn more about the 2023 NSFMIH Conference here.

 Proposal submission form can be found here. The deadline for submissions is May 12, 2023.

  

Xochitl Delgado Solorzano

Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Director of the Path Program

[She/Her/Hers] 

Honors College

University of Arkansas

124 Gearhart Hall

Fayetteville, AR  72701

Phone 479-575-3874

 

http://honorscollege.uark.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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John Emert

 

 

 

 

7th Annual Conference | October 13-15, 2022 | Northern Kentucky University


“Breaking Down Boundaries: Disrupting Honors and the Future of Honors Education.”


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Honors College at Northern Kentucky University welcomes you to the 7th Annual National Society for Minorities in Honors Conference, which will take place on the NKU campus from October 13th to October 15th, 2022.  The conference will begin at noon on Thursday and end at noon on Saturday.


Over the past decade, honors educators have sought to broaden the community and reimagine honors as an enhancement that can enrich the lives of a more diverse and more inclusive student population. Some programs and colleges have broadened their offerings to include anti-racist pedagogies, to embrace social justice movements, and to collectively push institutions of higher education to become more inclusive places. Others have essentially opened their doors to any student who wants to join. In other words, honors education in the United States has changed dramatically over the past one hundred years.

While honors education has taken great strides to become a more inclusive and diverse community, there is much more work left to do. How can honors programs and colleges work together to influence change and become more inclusive? How can honors programs collaborate beyond the honors community to lead in these efforts?  What does the next ten years look like for honors education in the United States? How can honors transform the institutions within which we are located?

The conference program committee invites panels, workshops, and roundtables that might provide examples of how programs or colleges are engaged in this work, as well as, presentations that seek to challenge the institutional boundaries that prevent future work from occurring. We also welcome proposals that are of general interest.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We especially welcome proposals for panels and workshops that address how we might break down traditional boundaries in honors and in institutions of higher education, as well as imagine the future of Honors education, in addition to proposals of general interest to the NSFMIH community. The conference committee invites proposals from both honors educators and students.

The three types of proposals are described below:

Individual Presentation: Individual Presentations (15 minutes) will be considered and arranged on panels by the conference committee. Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words describing your presentation.
Panel Presentation: Conference attendees may organize and submit proposals for a one-hour panel with multiple presenters. Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words describing the panel in its entirety.
• Workshop: Conference attendees may submit proposals for interactive, 75-minute workshops. Workshops should include opportunities for participants to work together and must contain interactive components. In a 300-word abstract with a title, please describe the goals of the workshop and what participants will take away from it.


Proposals should be submitted by email no later than 11:59pm on July 1st, 2022. Your submission should include (1) the proposed type of presentation, (2) the names, affiliations, and email addresses of the proposed presenters, (3) the title and (4) a 300-word abstract describing your presentation. Please email your submission to honors@nku.edu with “NSFMIH Proposal” in the subject line.

Decisions about the conference program will be released on August 1st, 2022 with a conference schedule available by mid-August. As feasible, we will make every effort to accommodate extraordinary situations.

CONFERENCE DETAILS
Registration will open on August 1st, 2022 and run through September 16th, 2022. NKU is working with nearby hotels to offer lodging for the conference with more information coming in the months ahead.  To keep updated on the conference and for information on lodging, transportation, registration, etc., please https://www.nku.edu/honors-college/nsmih.html for updates.

The conference will meet on the Northern Kentucky University campus. The campus and nearby hotels are located seven miles from downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and only 15-20 minutes from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (located in Northern Kentucky). 

Beyond campus and the conference program, the meeting will take place at the same time as BLINK Cincinnati—the nation’s largest light, art and projection mapping experience. In the past, shuttle buses to the event departed and returned from the NKU campus. For more information about this experience, you can visit blinkcincinnati.com.

 

- 2021 -

6th Annual National Conference - October 14-16, 2021

Ball State University

Hearty congratulations to John Emert and the team at Ball State University on a brilliant 2021 NSFMIH conference.

 

- 2020 -

5th Annual National Conference - October 21-23, 2020

Oakland University, Michigan

Thanks to all who presented at and attended the 2020 / 5th Annual National Society for Minorities in Honors Conference! The considerable success of the conference was entirely due to the fabulous presentations and engaging discussions. Simply wonderful.

 

- 2019 -

4th Annual National Conference - October 24 - 26, 2019

California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) University Honors Program in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Campuswide Honors Program.

Hosted (magnificently! ;-)) at the Fullerton Campus, in a warm (geographic and personal ;-) spirit!

 

- 2018 -

3rd Annual National Conference - October 25-27, 2018

Norbert O. Schedler Honors College (UCA) and the Donaghey Scholars Program (UALR) on the University of Central Arkansas campus
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The 2018 conference theme was "Equity, Justice, and Public Discourse in Honors Education", with representation and presentations from within the academic world and from governmental officials too.

 

- 2017 -

2nd Annual National Conference - October 25-27, 2017

Bowling Green State University, Ohio

The engaging 2017 conference theme was "Practicing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Twenty-First-Century Honors Education".


- 2016 -

Conference - March 9-11 2016
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

Topics included (broadly) support of diversity, equity and inclusion in college honors programs and honors colleges.

 

- 2015 - Launch Discussion - Nationally - Summer 2015

The launch of the National Society for Minorities in Honors (NSFMIH), took place between colleagues, nationally and with a wonderful collaborative spirit, in the Summer of 2015.


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The National Society for Minorities in Honors (NSFMIH) was founded in 2015 to bring together and advance discussions and action in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion in honors education. The organization holds an annual conference, hosted by institutions around the USA, and promotes the wide dissemination of ideas and initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion in honors education - through its annual conference, through national and international seminars and electronic events, and through publications.

The NSFMIH also has a Listserv, which you are welcome to join.

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