Honors Passports And Student Experience - 1835 Words

INTRODUCTION: HONORS PASSPORTS AND STUDENT EXPERIENCE This report explores how the Chancellor’s Honor Program’s Honors Passport system could improve by switching from physical booklets to an online, paperless system. The study gathers information about three questions that show how the paperless version would impact the Chancellors Honors Program as well as their students. †¢ What financial implications will a paperless system have in the first year? How will the Chancellor’s Honors Program benefit financially in the years to come? †¢ What environmental impact will switching from physical booklets to online have currently? How will the impact change as the program expands? †¢ How will a paperless system be more convenient for the students?†¦show more content†¦Becker Seminars are lectures or events that are either sponsored by the Chancellors Honors Program or sponsored by another university program and approved by the honors program (â€Å"Honors and Scholars†). When students attend a Becker Seminar, a staff member from the Chancellors Honors Program stamps the students’ honors passports, and when they complete community service, an event coordinator signs the passport to verify the student’s attendance. Honors Passports are small 4x6 inch paper booklets that are issued to every student in the Chancellors Honors Program from the year 2014 and on. This requirement was a result of the Chancellors Honors Program’s restructuring in 2014. The program elevated its standards to make it more competitive and in line with the university’s overall goal to be a top 25 public university (â€Å"Honors and Scholars†). Since the new standards are only two years old, the Honors Passport system and its negative effects are still growing. In 2014, there were roughly 300 students participating in the passport system. This year, 2015, roughly 600 students are using passports (Webster). The number of students involved will conti nue to grow until the year 2017 when it will include all four classes of honors students, or 1200 students. The issue these growing number of students face is not from the requirement itself but from the way in which it is enacted. Students are frustrated with the inconvenience of the