Students work with advisors, do an oral defense, must have a completed work in hand before graduating, etc. Students turn in theses to Nancy who does the review of formating, etc. Nancy publishes a list of accepted theses. There are about 110 of these a year. And the students are signing off on permissions to publish.
Students tend to do projects with a creative bent.
That's one reason for continuing to retain the print copy of the work. It is often the videotape or other medium that provides the bulk of the thesis. Concern was expressed that accepting the New College theses might dilute the work of the ETD Committee. However, since it appears that New College intends to pursue electronic publishing of theses, we might as well make sure the project fits with the EDT's on the Tampa Campus. Honors theses at Tampa are NOT standardized.