• Mark your schedule for March 26-27-28, 2010, when GPHC meets in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Co-sponsors will be the honors programs at Tulsa Community College (www.tulsacc.edu, led by David Lawless) and Oral Roberts University (www.oru.edu, led by John Korstad). Click here for the conference website and below for updated guidelines for the Boe competition for research papers.
• In spring 2011, we migrate to the Honors College at the University of Texas-Arlington (honors.uta.edu, led by Karl Petruso). Many thanks to David, John, and Karl to committing to host these exciting conferences.
• Downloads to help you plan: Boe guidelines

New dues invoice and new exec secretary/treasurer: Andrew Yox has graciously agreed to be drafted as EST. So all new memberships and all dues payments go to him. He has emailed invoices to member institutions, and you can click here to download copies. Active membership (with paid-up institutional dues) is required for your students to attend the spring conference and to compete for the Boe prizes.

New Video to help prepare student presenters:

• The spring conference is a great place for your students to learn the craft of presenting. Thanks to the Honors Program at Tulsa Community College, you can have your students watch mms://streaming.tulsacc.edu/media/dlawless/mona.wmv as a model. Mona Easterling of TCC gave this talk on "Awareness of Emotions and Their Expression" at the Nebraska conference this spring.
  
• This clip is best viewed with Windows Media Viewer. Mac users can get Flip4Mac, to see the clip on QuickTime, but may prefer VLC Media Player or Windows Media Player for Mac.
• If clicking this link doesn't work, your browser may be attaching "http://" to the URL. In that case, just copy and paste.
  

What is the GPHC?

The Great Plains Honors Council serves collegiate honors programs in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Coordinating its activities with the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), the Great Plains organization promotes the flow of information, ideas, fellowship and professional encouragement throughout its member programs. Our spring regional conference always emphasizes student presentations and the region-as-text. For other details, see our constitution.

The windmill that is part of the Great Plains Honors Council logo is a distinctive feature of our six-state region. It represents cooperation with the environment – the bringing to light of hidden resources – ingenuity – perseverance – the willingness to catch inspiration from every direction.

President:		Dr. Trisha Yarbrough, trisha.yarbrough[at]ecok.edu East Central University 1100 E. 14th St. PMB W3 Ada, OK 74820 580-559-5877, fax 580-436-3329
Vice President and President-elect:		Ms. Jessica Roark, jessica.roark@okstate.edu Oklahoma State University 405-744-6772
Immediate Past President:		Dr. Brad Gambill, bgambill[at]jbu.edu John Brown University 2000 W. University St. Siloam Springs AR 72761 479-238-8746
Executive Secretary-Treasurer:		Dr. Andrew P. Yox, ayox@ntcc.edu Northeast Texas Community College P.O. Box 1307 Mount Pleasant TX 75456-1307 903-434-8229, fax 903-434-4452
Listserv Wizard		Dr. Gene Young,  honors[at]shsu.edu Sam Houston State University Department of Philosophy Huntsville TX 77341-1477 936-294-1477

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