Honors Day | Press Release

The Best and Brightest of NGCSU: HD-XIII is coming!

For the thirteenth consecutive year, a diverse and accomplished group of students, faculty and guest speakers will converge on the campus of North Georgia College & State University for the Annual Honors Day Academic Conference. The conference occurs on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008. It covers the entire campus, replacing all on-campus day classes.

The Honors Day conference is a forum to showcase student excellence and achievement. Each department selects student papers or projects to present at their appropriate panel. The panels run most of the day, from 9am through 3pm. The panels will take place on campus, in the Hoag and Shott auditoriums, the Oakes Center, Dunlap Hall, and the Health and Natural Sciences Building, among other locations. An updated schedule is available from the "Academics" section of the campus web site (http://www.ngcsu.edu).

In addition to individual student presentations, honor societies and other relevant academic or professional groups will stage related activities. Among others this year, there will be an interdisciplinary gender studies panel, Mountain Laurels, the university’s literary magazine, will present select readings from this year's edition, Phi Alpha Theta, the History honor society, will bring the drill field to life with military re-enactors, and the Criminal Justice Association will conduct a mock crime scene investigation (make sure you have a solid alibi!).

In general, student presentations involve significant original research or thinking, often in the form of multimedia presentations (visuals, graphics, video, audio, computer presentations). Many Honors Day presentations go on to win praise at other academic conferences around the country. Presenters also have the opportunity to publish their work in Honores, the NGCSU Journal of Undergraduate Research.

The conference ends at 3:30pm with the tenth annual Great Debate. In what is likely the most consequential election year in a generation, the NGCSU American Democracy Project, is sponsoring a voter information forum and a registration drive in Hoag Auditorium.

Attendance is free and open to all. For more information, contact the conference’s organizer Dr. Carl Cavalli, at the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice (ccavalli@ngcsu.edu; 706-864-1872) or visit our web site (http://www.ngcsu.edu/Resource/honors).