NEWS
2022 Annual Conference: Empowering Honors: Reshaping the Honors Community post Pandemic
The theme for the conference is “Empowering Honors: Reshaping the Honors Community post Pandemic.” We hope that Honors students and faculty will use this conference as an opportunity to share their ideas about the future of Honors students in a global society and the future of Honors studies; how technology has supported us, how mental health has been in the forefront for many, and how we can have positive takeaways to reshape Honors.
Welcome,
On behalf of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council and our conference host, Palm Beach State College, I would like to invite you to attend the 2021-22 FCHC Annual Conference.
The conference will begin the morning of Friday, February 11th and end in the afternoon Saturday, February 12th. The conference will be held virtually.
The theme for the conference is “Empowering Honors: Reshaping the Honors Community post Pandemic.” We hope that Honors students and faculty will use this conference as an opportunity to share their ideas about the future of Honors students in a global society and the future of Honors studies; how technology has supported us, how mental health has been in the forefront for many, and how we can have positive takeaways to reshape Honors.
Through this conference we hope to create an honors academic community that is high spirited even in a virtual world. Therefore, we welcome you to take advantage of what the 2021-22 FCHC Annual Conference has to offer by presenting your research, engaging with Honors students and faculty from throughout the state and internationally, and taking what you learn back to your home campuses.
We look forward to seeing virtually in February 2022!
Warmly,
Marcella A. Montesinos
2021-22 FCHC Conference Chair
President-Elect, FCHC
2021 Keynote Address: Dr. Talithia Williams
Technology has a history of being a catalyst of change in training and education. We’ve seen it with desktop computers and, more recently, with the emergence of smartphones. But those shifts, substantial as they were, pale in comparison to the next big technological disruption: Data. In this fascinating talk you will discover how the advancing world of data analytics is forever changing the future of learning and work. You will explore the full landscape of data analytics, looking at both the expanding ways in which data is generated, and the advancements in analytics that make that data actionable. You will hear examples of data being used to better understand performance in both education and enterprise, and learn how those insights are being used to inform decision making and transform society.
Dr. Talithia Williams
Data-Driven Decision Making, Now and Imagined
Technology has a history of being a catalyst of change in training and education. We’ve seen it with desktop computers and, more recently, with the emergence of smartphones. But those shifts, substantial as they were, pale in comparison to the next big technological disruption: Data. In this fascinating talk you will discover how the advancing world of data analytics is forever changing the future of learning and work. You will explore the full landscape of data analytics, looking at both the expanding ways in which data is generated, and the advancements in analytics that make that data actionable. You will hear examples of data being used to better understand performance in both education and enterprise, and learn how those insights are being used to inform decision making and transform society.
Biography:
Statistician Talithia Williams is an innovative, award-winning Harvey Mudd College professor, a co-host of the PBS NOVA series NOVA Wonders and a speaker whose popular TED Talk, “Own Your Body’s Data”, extols the value of statistics in quantifying personal health information. She demystifies the mathematical process in amusing and insightful ways to excite students, parents, educators and the larger community about STEM education and its possibilities. In 2015, she won the Mathematical Association of America’s Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, which honors faculty members whose teaching is effective and extraordinary, and extends its influence beyond the classroom. It is this excellence that attracted the attention of online educational company The Great Courses, which selected Williams to produce “Learning Statistics: Concepts and Applications in R,” a series of lectures in which she provides tools to evaluate statistical data and determine if it’s used appropriately. She is the author of “Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics”, a full-color book highlighting the influence of women in the mathematical sciences in the last two millennia.
Williams is a proud graduate of Spelman College (B.A., math), Howard University (M.S., mathematics) and Rice University (M.A., Ph.D., statistics). Her research focus involves developing statistical models that emphasize the spatial and temporal structure of data and applies them to problems in the environment. She’s worked at NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Security Agency and has partnered with the World Health Organization on research regarding cataract surgical rates in African countries. Faith and family round out a busy life that she shares with a supportive husband and three amazing boys. Through her research and work in the community at large, she is helping change the collective mindset regarding STEM in general and math in particular, rebranding the field of mathematics as anything but a dry, technical or male-dominated but, instead, a logical, productive career path that is crucial to the future of the country.
2021 Annual Conference: Disruption and Adaptation in Honors
Join us February 12 – 13 for the 2021 Florida Collegiate Honors Council Conference as we reflect back on 2020 (with 2020 vision) and look forward past 2021 using our adaptations to disruptions as our guide to becoming exemplary honors students and faculty and better global citizens.
The year 2020 has shown that the unexpected can occur at any time in all facets of our lives. Through disruption we’ve learned to transition quickly and effectively. Nothing has made this clearer than the global pandemic, precarious economy, growing awareness of systemic racism, increasing demand for social justice, and a presidential election.
Join us February 12 – 13 for the 2021 Florida Collegiate Honors Council Conference as we reflect back on 2020 (with 20/20 vision) and look forward past 2021 using our adaptations to disruptions as our guide to becoming exemplary honors students and faculty and better global citizens.
Due to COVID-19 and the resulting travel restrictions and budget limitations, this year the conference will be held virtually. The evening of Friday, February 12, HCC’s Honors Student Organization, Arete, will be hosting Game Night. Faculty and students alike are encouraged to join us for virtual escape room and other fun ways to get to know one another. Saturday will be filled with live/online presentations, roundtables, posters, and awards and the student and faculty elections / business meetings.
Proposals will close January 11, 2020. FCHC member institutions (students and faculty) attend for free.
Strands for presentations and posters are:
Research
Pedagogy
Service
Leadership
Community
Student Logo Contest - Extended Through March 17, 2020
The Florida Collegiate Honors Council is looking for a new visual identity and needs your help. We are seeking current students from FCHC member institutions who can design a creative, innovative and professional logo design.
Calling all student artists and designers!
The Florida Collegiate Honors Council is looking for a new visual identity and needs your help. We are seeking current students from FCHC member institutions who can design a creative, innovative and professional logo design.
The logo should be recognizable and help promote our organization’s mission:
To provide a forum for sharing information about and improving the quality of Honors programs;
To provide students with greater opportunities for intercollegiate Honors program activities;
To collaborate with the regional and national organizations which have similar goals;
To encourage articulation and collaborative programming between Honors programs at associate and baccalaureate institutions;
To increase the public and private awareness of and fiscal commitment to Honors programs and projects.
The rest is up to you! Please read below for more details regarding logo design, contest rules & submission requirements.
How to Enter the Contest
The contest deadline has been extended through March 17, 2020. Winners will be announced via our website, social media websites and by direct contact to the winners' email accounts. In order for your entry to be submitted and reviewed by our judges, all entries must be:
Submitted in their original source file; and,
Submitted as a high resolution .pdf file with 300 dpi or higher.
Logo Requirements
Professional: This logo may be featured on our website, our social media platforms and other mediums (stationary, pamphlets, t-shirts etc). As a result, while we want the logo to be eye-catching, it must still be legible.
Theme: Logo must promote the mission of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council.
Color: There are no limitations and any colors may be used.
Integrity: Logos cannot contain copyrighted material. Logos must have been created and edited by the contestant(s). Logos may not include images or licensed images that have been previously published. Must be easily reproducible and scalable for large and small formatting.
Contest Details
The winner will be selected by the FCHC executive committee. Contestants agree that FCHC may publish their logo and name(s) and may use both for advertising campaigns and/or marketing materials in the future. Contestants assign all ownership rights, including all intellectual property rights to the logo, to the Florida Collegiate Honors Council. Additionally, the Florida Collegiate Honors Council may alter, modify or revise the logo as it sees necessary to achieve the goals of the organization. The Florida Collegiate Honors Council reserves the right to not select a winner if, in its sole discretion, no suitable entries are received.
Prize
Contest winner will receive $250.
Submission
Entries may be submitted on our website.
FCHC Student Logo Contest
The Florida Collegiate Honors Council is looking for a new visual identity and needs your help. We are seeking current students from FCHC member institutions who can design a creative, innovative and professional logo design.
Calling all student artists and designers!
The Florida Collegiate Honors Council is looking for a new visual identity and needs your help. We are seeking current students from FCHC member institutions who can design a creative, innovative and professional logo design.
The logo should be recognizable and help promote our organization’s mission:
To provide a forum for sharing information about and improving the quality of Honors programs;
To provide students with greater opportunities for intercollegiate Honors program activities;
To collaborate with the regional and national organizations which have similar goals;
To encourage articulation and collaborative programming between Honors programs at associate and baccalaureate institutions;
To increase the public and private awareness of and fiscal commitment to Honors programs and projects.
The rest is up to you! Please read below for more details regarding logo design, contest rules & submission requirements.
How to Enter the Contest
The contest begins on October 1, 2019. Submissions will be accepted through February 1, 2020. Winners will be announced in via our website, social media websites and by direct contact to the winners' email accounts. In order for your entry to be submitted and reviewed by our judges, all entries must be:
Submitted in their original source file and
Submitted as a high resolution .pdf file with 300 dpi or higher.
Logo Requirements
Professional: This logo may be featured on our website, our social media platforms and other mediums (stationary, pamphlets, t-shirts etc). As a result, while we want the logo to be eye-catching, it must still be legible.
Theme: Logo must promote the mission of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council.
Color: There are no limitations and any colors may be used.
Integrity: Logos cannot contain copyrighted material. Logos must have been created and edited by the contestant(s). Logos may not include images or licensed images that have been previously published. Must be easily reproducible and scalable for large and small formatting.
Contest Details
The winner will be selected by the FCHC executive committee. Contestants agree that FCHC may publish their logo and name(s) and may use both for advertising campaigns and/or marketing materials in the future. Contestants assign all ownership rights, including all intellectual property rights to the logo, to the Florida Collegiate Honors Council. Additionally, the Florida Collegiate Honors Council may alter, modify or revise the logo as it sees necessary to achieve the goals of the organization. The Florida Collegiate Honors Council reserves the right to not select a winner if, in its sole discretion, no suitable entries are received.
Prize
Contest winner will receive $250.
Submission
Entries may be submitted on our website.
2020 Annual Conference Invitation
This year’s conference theme is SoFloMind: Reclaiming Hope and Change. Florida, and South Florida in particular, is often at the forefront of issues affecting the nation and the world.
Greetings Florida Collegiate Honors Council Members and Friends,
On behalf of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council and the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, I am pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the 29th Annual Florida Collegiate Honors Council Conference to be held February 7-9, 2020 in Jupiter, FL.
This year’s conference theme is SoFloMind: Reclaiming Hope and Change. Florida, and South Florida in particular, is often at the forefront of issues affecting the nation and the world. Global issues like climate change hit our region particularly hard and South Floridians have to find ways to adapt without becoming overwhelmed. This year’s theme invites reflection on approaches for empowering, not just Floridians, but the global community to work through the challenges we face and respond productively in this time of uncertainty. Projections of the future are often dire and it can be easy to lose hope for a better tomorrow. Through collaboration and sharing of research, the Florida Collegiate Honors Council’s annual conference is a way to reclaim that hope and envision pathways for meaningful change. We look forward to sharing our unique experience and point of view—our SoFloMind—with you.
The Conference Hotel is the Embassy Suites Palm Beach Gardens(4350 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410. Phone number: 561-622-1000). The conference room rate is $169.00 per night, which includes complimentary breakfast for up to 4 people per room and WiFi. To make a reservation, guests may call the front desk at 561-622-1000 or Reservations at 1-888-488-3518 and reference the Florida Collegiate Honors Council block. The deadline to make reservations is January 8, 2020. Guests may receive the room rate for up to two days before and after the conference.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the conference, please contact Rachel Luria at rluria@fau.edu. We are looking forward to seeing you in the Palm Beaches in February. We will send updates and additional information about conference activities as it draws closer.
Sincerely,
Rachel Luria
Associate Professor
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
Jupiter, FL
2019 Annual Conference Invitation
This year’s conference theme is Perceptions, Paradoxes, and Possibilities. This year’s theme encourages educational exchanges that consider the way the world appears and functions. The theme relates to both scientific breakthroughs as well as socio-cultural and value changes. We encourage participants to consider perceptions of reality, individually or collectively, to question assumptions and long-held beliefs, and to consider how shifts in perceptions and values affect society.
Greetings Florida Collegiate Honors Council Members and Friends,
On behalf of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council and Seminole State College of Florida, I am pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the 29th Annual Florida Collegiate Honors Council Conference.
This year’s conference theme is Perceptions, Paradoxes, and Possibilities. This year’s theme encourages educational exchanges that consider the way the world appears and functions. The theme relates to both scientific breakthroughs as well as socio-cultural and value changes. We encourage participants to consider perceptions of reality, individually or collectively, to question assumptions and long-held beliefs, and to consider how shifts in perceptions and values affect society.
The Conference Hotel is the Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs (350 Northlake Blvd, Altamonte Springs. FL, 407-830-1985). The conference room rate is $135.00 per night, which includes complimentary breakfast for up to 4 people per room and WiFi. To make a reservation, guests may call 1-800-678-4380 and reference the Florida Collegiate Honors Council block. The deadline to make reservations is January 25, 2019. Guests may receive the room rate for up to two days before and after the conference.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the conference, please contact Aaron Hanlin at hanlina@seminolestate.edu. We are looking forward to seeing you in the Greater Orlando area in February. We will send updates and additional information about conference activities as it draws closer.
Sincerely,
Aaron Hanlin
Director
Grindle Honors Institute
Seminole State College of Florida
2018 Conference Invitation
This year’s conference theme is “Striving for Sustainability.” This theme reflects one of Florida Gulf Coast University’s central values of ecological sustainability, but it also invites inquiry into ways sustainability is vital to many areas, including academic, social, technological, economic, political, artistic, theological, and beyond. As a community of Honors scholars, it is fitting that we come together to explore the various and interconnected ways sustainability is important to our endeavors and how we can strive to increasingly achieve it.
Greetings Florida Collegiate Honors Council Members and Friends,
On behalf of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council and our conference host Florida Gulf Coast University, I am pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the 2018 Florida Collegiate Honors Council’s 27th Annual Conference. This year’s conference theme is “Striving for Sustainability.” This theme reflects one of Florida Gulf Coast University’s central values of ecological sustainability, but it also invites inquiry into ways sustainability is vital to many areas, including academic, social, technological, economic, political, artistic, theological, and beyond. As a community of Honors scholars, it is fitting that we come together to explore the various and interconnected ways sustainability is important to our endeavors and how we can strive to increasingly achieve it. While submissions related to the conference theme are especially welcome, members of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council are invited to explore a variety of topics across disciplines to recognize and celebrate the diversity of excellent scholarship produced by Honors students. For detailed information on submissions, please visit the FCHC website: www.floridacollegiatehonorscouncil.org
Review of conference proposals will begin on a rolling basis on Thursday, November 30, 2017, with a final deadline of 5:00 PM on Friday, January 5, 2018. Honors directors will be notified of acceptances by no later than January 9th.
Registrations are also being accepted on the FCHC website. Please use the response form you received from the site as you invoice and submit your payment by mail to Cayla Lanier by January 15, 2018.
The conference will begin with dinner the evening of Friday, February 9, 2018 and end in the early afternoon on Sunday, February 11, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Fort Myers Airport at Town Center. The room rate is $189.00 a night, which includes complimentary hot breakfast for up to 4 people per room and WiFi. To make a reservation, please click on the link below. By using this link you automatically receive the FCHC discount:
Florida Collegiate Honors Council Hotel Registration
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the conference, please contact Clay Motley at cmotley@fgcu.edu. We are looking forward to seeing you in Fort Myers in February. We will send updates and additional information about conference activities as it draws closer.
Best,
Clay Motley, Ph.D.
Honors College Director
Associate Professor of English
Florida Gulf Coast University