Our Values
In Fall 2022, the COAS Honors Program staff developed guiding principles for the program, in light of the needs of today's post-Covid student. These Four Points of Honor are made available to incoming students to orient them as they enter the program and to continue to assist students during their tenure in the program.
| #1 - Developing Your Curricular Strategy | #2 - Aligning Study Abroad/Away to Your Future Goals | #3 - Serving Through Your Strengths | #4 - Developing Your Engagement Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aligning your 4-Year plan to your SCOB (Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities, Barriers) | Matching Honors Students with Study Abroad and Study Away opportunities that align with internship opportunities and career opportunities. | Civic engagement & Community service | Internal events among Honors Faculty and Students |
| Course, experiences, activities, assignments, projects, research | Social justice | External events with industry partners, alumni | |
| Honors faculty advisement | Alternative Spring Break | Building on the strengths of our alumni |
Definition of Honors Education - NCHC
The COAS Honors Program is a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and ascribes to relevant tenets, such as how Honors Education is defined.
The National Collegiate Honors Council recognizes an honors college, program, institute, or equivalent descriptor, as the academic unit on a collegiate campus responsible for devising and delivering in-class and extracurricular academic experiences that provide a distinctive learning environment for selected students. The honors college or program provides opportunities for measurably broader, deeper, and more complex learning-centered and learner-directed experiences for its students than are available elsewhere in the institution; these opportunities are appropriately tailored to fit the institution’s culture and mission and frequently occur within a close community of students and faculty. In most cases, the honors community is composed of carefully selected teachers and students who form a cross- or multi-disciplinary cohort dedicated to achieving exceptional learning and personal standards. The National Collegiate Honors Council recognizes “departmental honors” as educational experiences that are similar but restricted to cohorts of students pursuing the same field of academic study.