Lynda Coon (University of Arkansas) brings a deep commitment to honors education and a fresh vision for the future to her role as dean of the Honors College. She has launched the Honors College Forum, a one-hour course that explores timely issues, the Honors College Mic lecture series, and Honors College Signature Seminars, an interdisciplinary series of courses on cutting-edge issues taught by the university's top professors. Coon is a church historian specializing in the time-period ca. 300-900.