Brigham Young University. University Honors Education

University Honors Education was created around the Honors Program in 1982 to prepare for the opening of the Honors Program to general enrollment. University officials felt that a deanship would be better equipped to deal with the expanded scope of the program. Honors Education was subsequently enfolded into the General Education and Honors department in 1986, created when General Education was placed under the leadership of the Dean of Honors.

Variant names

Brigham Young University. Honors Education

Description

Established: 1982

Abolished: 1986

Location: Provo, Utah (1982-1986)

Functions

The purpose of University Honors Education continued the mission of its predecessor: to provide an educational experience for capable and motivated undergraduate students that enriched their university education. Initially, Honors only offered general education courses, but later various departments across campus began offering Honors courses within their specific concentration, in conjunction with University Honors Education. This began as an attempt to create a comprehensive and fully integrated university education that linked the general education aspect with the specific focus connected with a major program. These departmental courses put special emphasis on critical thinking and writing, as well as on seeing their course material in an interdisciplinary light.

Assets and Administrative Structure

University Honors Education was overseen by a dean reporting to the University. Beginning in 1986, the Dean of Honors Education was also the Dean of General Education and Honors Education ceased to function as a separate entity.

Associated Units

Superior unit: Brigham Young University (1982-1986)

Subordinate unit: Brigham Young University. Honors Program (1982-1986)

Later unit: Brigham Young University. General Education and Honors (1986)

Associated Archival Materials

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Sources

Brigham Young University General Catalog 1984-1985, p. 31 (Honors Education, Dean De Lamar Jensen)

Kristen Morris, History of the Brigham Young University Honors Program: 1978-2001: The Building and Restructuring of an Honors Program: p. 27 (1982, university discontinued directorate leadership and created deanship in order to prepare for the open enrollment program and give the program greater status and more clout in the administrative community of the university); p. 31 (significant changes in GE; university placed GE under leadership of Dean of Honors, making Kearl first dean of Honors and General Education in 1986; one dean over both programs)

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