Occupy Honors Education

"The argument I make here is that each of us in honors in America is naïve if we believe that honors does not have to change integrally, significantly, if we are to continue to be productive players on the world stage as well as on the campuses of our home institutions. Thus, in what one might think of as the twilight of my career, I am asking for a spotlight on engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion in honors, and I am sending out a call to each reader of this monograph and the previous diversity monograph, Setting the Table for Diversity, that for social justice to exist, diversity, equity, and inclusion for all must become what we in honors are about, centrally, obsessively, perennially. This has to be our mission, the dawn of our new morning. We cannot remain in mourning instead for a dream of honors as an exclusive domain, nor can we remain with a vision of our home honors programs or honors colleges as doing enough simply by maintaining a kind of philosophical status quo in regard to whatever we have already achieved in honors on our home campuses. There are no laurels sufficient for us to rest upon"--Page 4 of cover