This is a special blog that invites you to help FLCC Honors Studies by filling out a survey through Survey Monkey. If you are enrolled in an Honors Studies class or are formally declared as an Honors student, you should have received a link via email. You may have even received it more than once. This blog is to shamelessly implore you to take a few minutes to complete it. It is only 10 questions and it would help us a great deal. Why?
Well, because Honors Studies is nothing without the students. That is such a constant in a college environment. In some ways, education is different than any other sort of business in that everything employees of an institution do is nothing without the students...even if they have nothing directly to do in the process. We make policies and create programs, we hire folks and let folks go, we encourage and support professional development, we have finances and reports, contracts and unions and the list goes on and on. But without all of you, we are nothing, really.
So, it is so important that we stop every once in awhile at the very least, to ask you what you think. That's what this survey is about. I've spent quite some time make a 63 page Honors Studies User's Guide that has so much information in it. I've create rubrics and talked to various committees on campus. I've talked to other colleges. I've done so much to help make sure that Honors is sustainable and will continue to grow because it has firm roots in the ground.
Honors is so many things to the students who invest their time and energy into it and it's their stories that add the magic to everything I do. The user's guide has a picture of an Honors student who is clearly laughing and if you look at our Flickr stream you will see so many students who look passionate and engaged and happy. This is the magic. The things I've talked about in other blogs about students feeling at home and welcomed in Honors, even if they also feel challenged and uncomfortable.
I often collect stories, and we of course read your thoughts in your reflective essays and in your journals. I gather anecdotes in Facebook messages and in emails, in my office and in the halls, and in Honors events like the dinner (10/30 at 5:00 in Stage 14). These reminders of what Honors means to the people living in it are so very important.
Without you, there is no magic.
This survey is a different way to learn what you are thinking and to gather important information so we can keep making Honors Studies better for everyone.
If you did not receive the link, please contact me at trista.merrill@flcc.edu or honorsstudies@flcc.edu and we will send you the link.
Thank you!
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