Honors College enrollment is 504. The annual forum with President Risser will be November 19. The distribution of classes and students was discussed. Materials provided to members at the meeting will be sent to the absent members. Shaver reported on the Leadership Forum held Spring 1998 and plans for the Forum Spring 1999.
Leadership is given much more weight than in the past.
After discussion, the Council decided that the Honors College should continue to use the guidelines used in the past but evidence of outstanding leadership should be factored into the score given on the essays. Every application will be read by at least one person. The essays from all applicants with between 20 and 30 points from the GPA plus SAT score will be read by three people. One of those readers will be a student. Below 20, the essays will be read by one person.