Conference Logo by Jenn Crow, Arcadia University

2009 Annual NCHC Conference
Washington, D.C.
Oct. 28 - Nov. 1, 2009

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Conference registration is open! Register here for Honors in the Global City.

Conference hotel registration is also open! Call (800) 233-1234 and mention NCHC to receive conference rates.

The pre-conference program is now available online.

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Student Moderators are still needed for the NCHC. The deadline for the inclusion into the program is July 1, 2009. Apply online. Suggestions for additional titles for the book table at conference are being accepted. The deadline for submission of titles is September 25, 2009. Details are available here. Recommendations can be submitted online. St. Mary's College Honors students need your help assembling items for the silent auction. To donate an item, please contact Honors director Michael Taber. Information regarding the slate of candidates for the 2010 NCHC Board of Directors is available here.

Call for Papers The next issue of JNCHC (deadline: September 1, 2009) invites research essays on any topic of interest to the honors community.   The issue will also include a Forum focused on the theme "Honors in the Digital Age."  We invite essays of roughly a thousand words that consider this theme in the context of your campus and/or a national context.    Topics for Forum submissions might include:  the benefits and liabilities of any specific form of digital technology (word and image processing, the Internet, social networking sites, personal blogs, cell phones and PDAs, etc.); the ease of plagiarism and other forms of cheating in the digital age; the joys and travails of tracking in grading papers; new opportunities and challenges in research; the influence of digital "gizmos" on the culture of honors; technology as a creator and/or disruptor of community; technological innovations/ obsolescence and honors program budgets; the effects of technology on library use; computer security issues; and illegal downloading of files on honors program computers.    Please contact Ada Long with any questions.