Here are the procedures for reviewing a Capstone Project by an Honors Representative:

1. When the advisor has approved the project, the student submits it to the Honors Program Office, 306 Bowne Hall.

2. Honors Program staff then assign the project to an Honors Representative. The student delivers the Capstone Project to the Honors Representative in a blue folder with a form which indicates the date by which the Representative needs to return it to Honors - generally one week from the date received.

3. The Honors Representative reads the Capstone Project to be sure it meets his or her standards, as a faculty member, for an Honors degree, in the process reviewing general content, format, quality, and typographical and punctuation errors. Please keep in mind that the copy in your hands is the one that will be bound in the Honors Library, so please only mark individual pages that need to be changed.

If there are no corrections: You inform the student, via email or phone, that the Capstone Project meets the Honors Program's criteria and that no corrections are necessary.

If the Honors Representative finds minor corrections necessary: You inform the student, via email or phone, what corrections and revisions, if any, need to be made. Then you:

1. sign the title page of the Capstone Project (and any additional copies);
2. sign the Completed Capstone Project Verification Form (included in the blue folder), and return the Capstone Project to the Honors office, 306 Bowne Hall.

Your work as an Honors Representative is now done. The student picks up the Capstone Project from the Honors office, makes the corrections and revisions, and returns the corrected Capstone Project to the Honors office along with the original pages marked by you. The Honors staff will ascertain from the original, marked pages that the corrections were made.

In the unlikely event that the project needs significant substantive changes, or if you have concerns regarding quality, please contact the Honors Deputy Director, Eric Holzwarth (ext. 2759). In that case, you may choose to withhold your signature from the Verification Form and the Capstone Project title page. Please do NOT raise these issues with the student until the Honors Deputy Director has had an opportunity to confer with you and with the student's Capstone Project Advisor.

4. The Honors Representative is invited to the Capstone Project Presentation Day, along with all Capstone Project Advisors, second readers, and other guests. The time and day of the student's individual presentation is noted on the Presentation Information Sheet included with the Capstone Project. Note that, while the Honors Representative is warmly invited to attend, your presence is not required. The Honors Program is deeply grateful for this important contribution to our students' intellectual and creative lives.