Editorial Team
The Editorial Board consists of (in alphabetical order):
- Becky Bott
Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Bott is Dean of the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College at South Dakota State University, U.S.A. She holds certificates in Systems Thinking, Change Management, and Leadership & Management, which inform her adaptive leadership style and strategic decision-making. An active leader in honors education, Dr. Bott-Knutson serves on the Assessment and Membership Committees of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and the Student Engagement Committee for the Council on Honors Education. She also directs The Justice Challenge program, an initiative that prepares students to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Dr. Bott-Knutson is a Fellow of the National Collegiate Honors Council. She is dedicated to advancing transdisciplinary experiences in higher education.
- Carmen Mihaela Cretu
Professor emeritus at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences. She is the founding president of RO-Talent association of support for talented people, a board member of European Honors Council and the European Council for High Ability’s national correspondent. Currently she teaches courses on Psychology and Education for Talented Students, Education Policies and Management as associate professor. She has long-time experience on international research-action networking. Her research projects are related to HE education policy, curriculum for talented students and teacher training. She has performed evaluation of research projects and consultancy work for European Commission in Brussels and various commissions of Romanian Ministry of Education. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8946-8552
- Pierre van Eijl
Honorary Researcher (retired) Higher Education, Centre for Education and Learning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands and independent senior consultant. He has performed consultancy work for various research universities and universities of applied sciences. His main research area is talent development in higher education. He did also research on blended learning. He has published several scientific articles and books on his research. Current activities: research on the transfer of innovations in honours education to regular bachelor programs and writing an overview on the design of honours education for the NRO (National Institute for the Stimulation and Coordination of Educational Research in the Netherlands). Examples of publications: http://dx.doi.org/10.31378/jehc.219, https://doi.org/10.31378/jehc.167, https://doi.org/10.31378/jehc.87, https://doi.org/10.31378/jehc.25, https://doi.org/10.31378/jehc.43 and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274702133_Building_a_Vibrant_Honors_Community_among_Commuter_Students, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-005-6747-4
- Linda Frost
Linda Frost is founding Dean of the Honors College at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. A longtime member as well as co-chair of the Publications Board of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Frost was the guest editor for two issues of JNCHC: The Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (Volume 25 issues 1 and 2 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1799&context=nchcjournal). With Lisa Kay and Rachael Poe, Frost edited Housing Honors, an NCHC monograph published in 2015 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=nchcmonochap and she helped launch and has continued to support UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. She served on the Board of Directors for NCHC and has been a member of the European Honors Council since its inception.
- Beata Jones
Dr. Beata Jones is a Professor of Business Information Systems Practice, an Honors Faculty Fellow, Neeley Distinguished Teacher, and a founding director of a business honors program at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, USA. She is an NCHC Teaching and Learning and Professional Development Committees member, a Fulbright Scholar, and co-convener of the Honors International Faculty Institutes sponsored by the NCHC and EHC
- Albert Pilot
Prof. Dr. Albert Pilot is Emeritus Professor of Curriculum Development and Didactics of Chemistry at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research focus on curriculum development, quality assurance, talent development, cooperative learning, ICT and professional development of teachers in secondary and higher education.
- Niels Sandholm
Dr. Niels Sandholm Larsen is Senior Associate Professor at Department of Nursing and Nutrition, faculty of Health, University College Copenhagen. He has a background in nursing and sociology of education.
His area of research is curriculum studies, didactics and learning with a special interest in honors education within clinical work of nursing, supporting of excellence in clinical skills. He is engaged in recruitment of professionals and support of reading strategies and reading skills in higher education.
He is a founding member of research networks on education and rehabilitation and course director of international conferences and academic meetings, he publishes and edits international journals and is the author of a textbooks targeting professionals within healthcare.
- Tina Turiceanu
Dr. Tina Vrabie is an Assistant Professor PhD at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (UAIC), Romania, member of the European Honors Council and of ROTALENT – Romanian Association of Psychological and Educational Support for Talented People. At UAIC she teaches courses on talents‘ development, the purpose of her PhD thesis was to investigate ”The Differentiated Design of Curriculum in the Field of Psychopedagogy for Talent Promotion” and she is a postdoctoral research fellow at UAIC, in the field of gifted education. She has experience in international research-action networking focused on gifted education area and she was member of European research project and Erasmus + programs concerning with HE education policy, provision for talented children and youth, curriculum differentiation, but also, innovative strategies (e.g. Cotalent - www.cotalent.eu; Steam+ - www.steamtalent.eu ).
- Nick Waldram
Nik Waldram is a junior researcher at the research group on Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Education at Avans University of Applied Science, the Netherlands. Besides having been an honors student himself for four years at the Geoscience Faculty of Utrecht University, he serves as secretary in the board of the European Honors Council.
- Ron Weerheijm
Ron Weerheijm (MArch) was coordinator of honors education at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. He organized the International Honors Conference in Rotterdam in 2013, an international City as Text faculty institute in Rotterdam in 2016 and is main organizer of the Waddenlab. At RUAS he set up the honors education and for that, in 2009 a set of competences was developed and in 2023 these were connected with the Inner Development Goals as a ‘guideline’ for honors students for their expectations in honors. Last research was about how to ‘give’ students autonomy in class, which resulted in a publication and a practical info graphic on that subject. Now retired, but still active in and for honors education. Weerheijm took the initiative to set up the European Honors Council and sought collaboration with Marca Wolfensberger.
- Marca Wolfensberger
Dr. M.V.C. (Marca) Wolfensberger heads the interdisciplinary research group Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Education, which is part of knowledge centre Future-Proof Education of Avans UAS in the Netherlands. Wolfensberger defended her doctoral thesis Teaching for Excellence, Honors Pedagogies Revealed (2012) in Utrecht University. She worked as honors director at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University and has been involved in various honors and trans- and interdisciplinary education modules. She is founder pioneer of honours education in Europe and served as a professor in Talent Development in Higher Education and Society at the Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Wolfensberger has written more than 140 publications and given keynotes all over the world. Her landmark book ‘Talent Development in European Higher Education’ (Springer, 2015) spurred up the founding of the European Honours Council. She is the first European Fellow of the American honors organization, NCHC, and the first President of the European Honors Council.
