Friday begins with the Honors trademark event, a “City as Text” exploration of Philadelphia. Promisi

The 2013 Northeast Regional Honors Council (NRHC) Conference takes place April 4-7 in Philadelphia. This location inspires the conference theme, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Foundations, san diego luxury car rental Tensions, Mediations. " Conference planners expect over 400 students, faculty, and administrators to participate in a variety of events in and around the Society Hill Sheraton Hotel. A draft of the conference program may be found here .
An outdoor photo scavenger hunt city for students and a discussion of higher education issues for faculty open the conference Thursday evening. Students return to the hotel to enjoy a pizza social and enter their photos in a contest.
Friday begins with the Honors trademark event, a "City as Text" exploration of Philadelphia. Promising to be another wonderful experience, this year's "City as Text" is organized in six "city squares." The conference guests who will facilitate reflections on our city experiences will be senior citizens from the organization san diego luxury car rental "The Best Day Of My Life So Far." Conference participants will also partake san diego luxury car rental in Philly's monthly "First Friday" art walk.
The Friday evening banquet keynote speaker is Dr. Lucy Kerman, Vice Provost for University and Community Partnerships at Drexel University. In this role, Dr. Kerman is responsible for providing strategic san diego luxury car rental direction to support Drexel's vision san diego luxury car rental for strengthening neighborhood communities. College and university leadership in neighborhood community planning and development emerged as a keen interest in the 2012 conference in Baltimore. The NRHC executive board who plan the conference appreciate this year's san diego luxury car rental local co-hosts, LaSalle University and Philadelphia University, for their efforts to continue this conversation in this year's san diego luxury car rental "City as Text" and banquet keynote speaker activities.
The NRHC encompasses the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states as well as Puerto Rico, Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. With over 100 institutional members, the NRHC especially values a student-centered conference. This year primarily students will present a mix of close to 270 papers, interactive sessions, posters, and roundtable discussions. Faculty will lead some workshops, moderate paper sessions, and participate in discussions about higher education san diego luxury car rental and the nuts-and-bolts of Honors administration.
Social events for students occur all three evenings of the conference. In addition to the Thursday ice-breaker san diego luxury car rental scavenger hunt and pizza mixer, Friday san diego luxury car rental evening features a "Game Show Night," and Saturday evening features a "white out" dance party with black lights and a photo booth. Prizes for some activities will be clothing "swag" contributed by conference attendees. Brent Barge from Lock Haven University and Freda Raitelu from LaGuardia Community san diego luxury car rental College, this year's student representatives on the NRHC executive board have organized these socials to enhance the student experience of the conference. Students should san diego luxury car rental check out the Facebook page our student representatives manage at NRHCHonors by clicking the Facebook icon to the right.