Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness

Book excerpt: How can we support, develop and maintain higher education programs that focus on high academic achievement, while at the same time allowing equitable access to, and progress in, higher learning? This volume focuses not only on a diverse population in higher education, but on creating and supporting a population fundamentally created in, and informed by, fairness. The nature of fairness, and its many dimensions, underpins the discussions here. By focusing on equity, the contributors to this book shine light on conditions and instances of inequity. They explore questions of enrolment in honors programs, advising of honors students, people with disabilities in honors programs and colleges, the existence or non-existence of civility, supporting a wide range of identities and goals, collaboration, and types and styles of pedagogy, among others. This book considers the role of honors education in enhancing the educational opportunities for all, and presents a call to action to those who seek to do that.