3 employees in department:
Greg Beirly – Executive Director of the honors program
Oversees the program
Final say on admission to the honors program
Ensures faculty is available to teach honors classes
Prepares the semester honors schedule
Organizes student service trip projects
Laura Froelicher – Assistant Director
Works with peer advisors
Manages the database
Kelly Anthony- program coordinator
Manages the budget
Completes all travel request forms for ISU approval
Supply orders
Manages the student workers (department front desk)
Manage all data conversions for acceptance denial files
Coordinates the annual scholarship banquet
MIS Used:
Argos - Holds all recorded data
Banner – Designator used to indicate that the student has been accepted to the honors program
Budget is kept on banner
Scheduling information is pulled from Argos and Banner
Other Data Stores:
File cabinets – hold records of every honor student, and alumni, and all conversion sheets or letters are held in each with the paper copy of the application
· The conversion is a paper form that makes honor student’s regular classes qualify for honors credit. There is an extra project that they do that is written up and signed by the regular class professor to show that they did an extra project for the class to have it count as an honors course
Additional information:
Business Type: Non-profit/school
Budget requirements: None (school provides all support)
Mission Statement: The department uses ISU’s mission statement (can be found online)
Success of the program: dependent of number of graduates from the honors program
Successful past improvements: Application is completely online – has been very successful better than the paper form ( old way)
Suggestions for future improvements: Conversions put online would make the process a lot better
Key Department Functional Elements:
1. Application process
Online – then is sent to all three of them instantly
Greg reviews each to see if one of three criteria is met and then accept or deny
Denied – letter sent informing them (form letter)
Approved- Laura adds to data base and mails letter
Then given to Kelly goes into banner and add an attribute to their name so they are recognized in the system and then files are created for eachstudent
Student file – first and last and 991 and application and letter copy(file cabinet)
2. Greg works with faculty on classes they will teach
(times stay the same but if new course being taught then they work with him to get that added)
a. Send request to registrar’s office
b. Registrar office adds it to the schedule
3. Student Service project trips
Greg scouts the location and goes with the students
Kelly prepares the budget
a. Keep track of expenditures and track deposits pay bills
Kelly
a. Books flights and hotels
4. Managing student workers
Kelly makes schedules
Students man the front desk, answer phones, greet people when they arrive, schedule meeting times
5. Annual Scholarship Banquet
Kelly puts together- banquet
Committee (ISU Panel) selects the winners
Kelly reserves the room (Commons Union ) with Andrea O’Rourke (ISU Events Specialist)
Kelly Send invitations (invite parents and students who have won the scholarship awards)
Kelly orders food (calls ISU Sudexo mainline)

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