Introduction / Peter C. Sederberg -- The genesis of an idea / Ted Humphrey -- Characteristics of the contemporary honors college: a descriptive analysis of a survey of NCHC member colleges / Peter C. Sederberg -- The honors college in a two-year college setting: Miami Dade College / Alexandria Holloway -- The multi-collegiate university setting: Kent State University / Larry Andrews -- The freestanding honors college: Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University / Nancy Kason Poulson -- You say tomato: I say tomahto: honors college? Who needs it? / Rosalie C. Otero -- How to create an honors college / Bob Pepperman Taylor -- How not to create an honors college: a dystopian fantasy / "Donald Publius" -- Sustaining vitality in the established honors college / Peter C. Sederberg -- Following in the footsteps of the founders / Davis Baird -- The pillars of college creation / Gary M. Bell -- Appendix A: Basic characteristics of a fully developed honors program -- Appendix B: Basic characteristics of a fully developed honors college.
