Overview
The Honors Program (1962) and the Selected Studies Program
(1958) are the programs sanctioned by the Board of Regents
that have historically served the talented and motivated student
at Manoa. Selected Studies is for freshmen and sophomores,
Honors for juniors and seniors.
These programs are undergoing revision with the broad goal
of creating a functionally coherent, four-year program, provisionally
called “The UH Manoa Undergraduate Honors Program.”
This provisional entity will function as a transition toward
a college structure as outlined in the Honors College Taskforce
proposal, May 2002 (Documents
Relating to New Manoa Honors College Proposal).
The Manoa Strategic Plan, “Defining Our Destiny, 2002-2010,”
provides the basic framework for the process of change that
the Honors Program and the Selected Studies Program are undergoing.
Over the course of the 2001-2002 academic year, UH Manoa
engaged in a strategic planning process that began with a
Listening Project and involved five working committees comprised
of key governance groups on campus. The Listening Project
gathered input from the campus community, both online and
through various events.
The culminating "Defining Our Destiny" event on
February 1, 2002 opened UH Manoa's doors to all stakeholders,
both in the University and in the community at large. More
than 1,400 people came forward to share their highest hopes
for UHM.
A second context for changes in Honors at Manoa is “Reinventing
Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research
Universities” (1998), the report from the Boyer Commission
on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. Because
Manoa is a Carnegie Doctoral Extensive university, the recommendations
in “Reinventing Undergraduate Education” are especially
pertinent.
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