{"304341":{"#nid":"304341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Berry becomes Director of GT\u0027s Honors Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Roberta Berry has just accepted a new position,\u0026nbsp;effective\u0026nbsp;August 15, as Director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program \u0026lt;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.honorsprogram.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.honorsprogram.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt;. The Georgia Tech Honors Program selects students who give a strong indication of intellectual curiosity and commitment, and tries to create an academic context in which they can extend their range of thought by working with professors and other students in a spirit of collaborative inquiry and interdisciplinary investigation.\u0026nbsp; The Honors Program curriculum emphasizes active intellectual engagement and the mutual exchange of ideas rather than just the transfer of information.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Director, Dr. Berry will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Honors Program,\u0026nbsp;including student recruitment, admission, orientation, programming, curriculum\u0026nbsp;development, course scheduling, and assessment.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Roberta Berry has just accepted a new 12-month position,\u0026nbsp;effective\u0026nbsp;August 15, as Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.honorsprogram.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Honors Program \u003C\/a\u003E. The Georgia Tech Honors Program selects students who give a strong indication of intellectual curiosity and commitment, and tries to create an academic context in which they can extend their range of thought by working with professors and other students in a spirit of collaborative inquiry and interdisciplinary investigation.\u0026nbsp; The Honors Program curriculum emphasizes active intellectual engagement and the mutual exchange of ideas rather than just the transfer of information.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Director, Dr. Berry will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Honors Program,\u0026nbsp;including student recruitment, admission, orientation, programming, curriculum\u0026nbsp;development, course scheduling, and assessment.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Roberta Berry accepts 12-month appointment as Director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program"}],"uid":"28034","created_gmt":"2014-06-20 15:54:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:37","author":"Leslie Ross","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"304351":{"id":"304351","type":"image","title":"Roberta Berry","body":null,"created":"1449244609","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:49","changed":"1475895009","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:09","alt":"Roberta Berry","file":{"fid":"199653","name":"robertaberry.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertaberry_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertaberry_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4692,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robertaberry_0.jpeg?itok=FzUpHqgO"}}},"media_ids":["304351"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4201","name":"honors program"},{"id":"1284","name":"Roberta Berry"},{"id":"167090","name":"SPP"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}