The National Collegiate Honors Council has a wealth of information about the development of honors programs. More can be found through their website or through the publications below that you can access through the GCC Library...
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
Honors in Practice
Honors Colleges in the 21st Century. NCHC Monographs Series
by
Richard Badenhausen (Editor)
All guides are available under the CC-BY-NC-SA license.