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Columnist and author Frank Bruni A Review of Fifty Public University Honors Programs was .. .first published in 2012 and updated last year. It's linked to publicuniversityhonors.com, which began in 2011 and, like the [new] book, provides thorough appraisals of individual honors colleges and programs and intelligent thoughts on how they fit into the higher-education landscape. --New York Times, August 9, 2015. Columnist and consultant Lee Bierer: John Willingham has literally written the book on Honors Colleges. INSIDE HONORS: Ratings and Reviews of Sixty Public University Honors Programs...where he shares his methodical research results. His research has demonstrated that increasingly one can find equally excellent value in the growing number of honors colleges in non-flagship institutions. But to find that value, you have to look deeply into what Willingham calls the 'ground game' of honors colleges and programs. -Charlotte Observer, February 20, 2017.

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John Willingham's background includes 30 years of in journalism and public administration, mostly in Texas. For three years, he was a regular contributor to the History News Network (HNN.us), writing several articles that covered the controversy in Texas over the adoption of social studies and science textbooks and curricula. His education includes a BA, cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in history from UT Austin, including graduate minors in education and journalism. In 2013, he completed training in honors program evaluation offered by the National Collegiate Honors Council at the University of Nebraska. He also made a presentation on program evaluation at the NCHC Annual Meeting in Seattle in 2016. He is the author of an historical novel about the 1836 Texas Revolution, and his fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Southwest Review literary quarterly, published by Southern Methodist University Press.

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