Honors "Power Boosters" are attributes of the Honors Program designed to add value to each honors student's experience, using our program's pillars of Opportunity, Community, and Challenge as a guide.
Learn more about how we're helping honors students "level up" through the following:
Honors Signature Experiences designed to add interdisciplinary breadth
- Course-based experiences such as Early Arrival Course-Based Camps, UnCommon Classrooms, Honoring the Ocean, and the Grand Challenge Scholars Program
- Co-curricular opportunities such as our Learning Communities and Honors Study Abroad
- Specialized opportunities to lead such as our UnCommon Peer Instructors and Honors Executive Fellows
Learn more here.
Tailored opportunities to gain disciplinary depth outside of the classroom
- Upper-division honors opportunities or tracks in select academic departments and colleges
- Mentored research culminating in an honors thesis in the major
- Opportunities to develop exhibitions or performances, compete on design or case study teams, or gain other practical and immersive experience in the field
Learn more here.
An unparalleled community of student and faculty scholars
- A peer network that is collaborative and supportive, not competitive or toxic - from honors student organizations, affinity groups, and leadership opportunities to the Honors Living Learning Community at Honors Village
- A faculty network that may begin in the honors classroom but can lead to mentoring, research, teaching assistant positions, study abroad, and graduate / professional school connections
Personalized support at all stages
- A nationally-recognized honors advising model that is holistic, comprehensive, and strategically focused
- Support for making sound academic and career decisions
- Encouragement to Experience the UnCommon, in whatever way, shape, or form that may take
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