Elizabethtown College Director of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships and Public Heritage Studies Jean-Paul Benowitz was recently selected to serve on the National Honors Faculty Professional Development Programming Committee by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) board of directors.
“Through serving on the program committee, I will be informing the curriculum of professional development programming for NCHC, which is a great honor and will bring further national recognition to the Elizabethtown College Honors Program,” Benowitz said.
The committee evaluates curriculum and academic programming of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) by evaluating faculty instructors, content, and quality of programs. It also oversees NCHC professional development programs and events.
Benowitz has held an active role in the NCHC, teaching multiple national-level professional development courses, and for the last six years, he has been an honors faculty facilitator. In his role as a faculty facilitator, Benowitz taught faculty around the nation how to teach the NCHC City as Text pedagogy effectively.
“It has been a privilege teaching NCHC faculty institutes, sharing with professors who teach honors courses around the nation the innovations I have introduced to honors education and academic advising,” Benowitz said.
At Etown, Benowitz incorporates community-based learning and co-curricular programming in the Honors program and created a Public Heritage Studies Certificate.
Benowitz has also authored chapters in NCHC monographs about Etown’s incorporation of the Place as Text pedagogy into the Honors program.
