Conference programs from the past several years can be found in our online archive.

Please help us construct a complete archive! Do you have information about past conference locations and themes not listed here? How about an electronic version of a past conference program that you can share? Contact the GPHC archivist.

2025 Great Plains Greater Possibilities (University of North Texas)

2024 Honors at the Intersection (Oklahoma State University)

2023 Powered by the Liberal Arts (Midwestern State University)

2022 Honors Ignites (Wichita State University and Hutchinson Community College)

2021: Virtual Conference (Midwestern State University)

2020: Virtual Conference (Hutchinson Community College and Wichita State University)

2019: Coming Up Roses (Tyler, TX; University of Texas - Tyler)

2018: Surviving the Times through Strength, Community, Diversity (Stillwater, OK; Oklahoma State University)

2017: Exploration Through Honors (Beaumont, TX; Lamar University)

2016: Entrepreneurial Spirit (Siloam Springs, AR; John Brown University/Oral Roberts Univ.)

2015: Honors Transcending Borders (South Padre Island, TX; University of Texas Pan American)

2014: Looking Back - Looking Forward (Fort Smith, AR; Honors International Studies Program, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith)

2013: Connecting in a Digital World (Canyon, TX; West Texas A&M University)

2012: Honors on the Boulevard (Overland Park, KS; Johnson County Community College/Park University)

2011: Experimenting in Honors (Arlington, TX; UT-Arlington)

2010: The Art of the Critique (Tulsa, OK; Tulsa Community College/Oral Roberts Univ.)

2009: People and Perspectives of the Plains (Lincoln, NE; University of Nebraska)

2008: Visionary on the Prairie (Abilene, TX; Abilene Christian Univ./McMurry University)

2007: From Arrows to Aerospace (Oklahoma City, OK; Oklahoma City University/Okla. City CC)

2006: Let Your Dreams Take Wing (Lubbock, TX; Texas Tech)

2005: Ad Astra Per Aspera (Lawrence, KS; University of Kansas)

2004: Bridging Cultures (San Antonio, TX; UT-San Antonio)

2003: Expanding Borders (Fort Smith, AR; Univ. of Arkansas-Ft. Smith/Tulsa CC)

2002: Cowtown as Text (Fort Worth, TX; TCU, UTA, TCCC, TWU, Tyler JC)

2001: Theme unknown (Wichita, KS; Wichita State University)

2000: 21st Century Honors on the Great Plains (Stillwater, OK; Oklahoma State University)

1999: Theme unknown (Little Rock, AR; Univ. of Arkansas-Little Rock)

1998: Theme unknown (Lincoln, NE; University of Nebraska)

1997: LBJ's Hill Country and the Great Plains: Landforms, Water, and Cultures (San Marcos, Texas)

1996: The Prairie as Text (Emporia, KS; Emporia State University)

1995: Theme unknown (Stillwater, OK; Oklahoma State University)

1994:

1993:

1992: Theme unknown (Overland Park, KS; Johnson County Community College)

1991: Theme unknown (Emporia, KS; Emporia State University)

1990:

1989: Theme unknown (Abilene, TX; Abiline Christian University)

1988:

1987:

1986: Theme unknown (Southwest Texas State University)

1985: Theme unknown (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville)