{"id":13650,"date":"2023-02-01T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2023-02-01T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:02:15","slug":"dursun-ozkanca-appointed-to-leadership-role-in-national-collegiate-honors-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/dursun-ozkanca-appointed-to-leadership-role-in-national-collegiate-honors-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Dursun-\u00d6zkanca Appointed to Leadership Role in National Collegiate Honors Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College Director of Honors Program &amp; Professor of Political Science\/Professor of International Studies Oya Dursun-\u00d6zkanca was recently appointed to a leadership role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchchonors.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC)<\/a> and will serve on the Small College Committee of the NCHC.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI am thrilled about this opportunity, which brings more visibility to our College in national honors education,\u201d Dr. Dursun-\u00d6zkanca said. \u201cWith my membership in this Committee, I seek to advocate for improved logistical and financial support for small colleges in honors education.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Committee evaluates conference proposals from Small Colleges for the NCHC Annual Conference and meets on a regular basis each year, including the meeting at the NCHC Annual Conference. Dr. Dursun-\u00d6zkanca\u2019s term on the Small College Committee will expire at the end of 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis appointment will continue efforts to put the Elizabethtown College Honors Program on the map for honors education in the U.S. and contribute to the national prestige and visibility of our program,\u201d Dr. Dursun-\u00d6zkanca explained. \u201cBeing appointed to this Committee also serves as a good indication of our program&#8217;s dedication and contributions to advancing honors education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Etown\u2019s Honors Program is well established as a national leader in honors education. A peer review made by the NCHC in 2020 highlighted the strengths of Etown\u2019s program and how it has the potential to serve as a role model for other colleges of comparable size.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Dursun-\u00d6zkanca has been at the helm of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/programs\/honors\/index.aspx\">Etown Honors Program<\/a> since 2020, first being appointed as Interim Honors Program Director in July 2020 before being appointed for a three-year term as the Director of the Honors Program in the fall of 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Director of Honors Program &amp; Professor of Political Science\/Professor of International Studies Oya Dursun-\u00d6zkanca was recently appointed to a leadership role in the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and will serve on the Small College Committee of the NCHC. \u201cI am thrilled about this opportunity, which brings more visibility to our College in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[197,1350,1631],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-national-honors-council","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}