Honors Program at Small University

[Hope2008]

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I work for the honors program at a small state university. What can I do to benefit students?

My Current Ideas
-Set up a honors student council and offer leadership positions. Currently, faculty members and the director spend a lot of time planning for events. However, students who are in the program are not highly motivated. The aim of setting up an honors student council to let students get involved and active.

How do you think? What kind of events do you do at your school in honors program?

Thank you. I really hope our university can run a successful honors program. It would be nice if students in our program can have a good college experience. 🙂

 

[Catalystik]

My school's honors program has social outings to encourage participants to get out and have some fun and exercise social skills together. They also have a dedicated lounge to encourage some networking.

 

[Morsetlis]

Start MCAT and Pre-med advising classes. Hire SDN people to tutor.

 

[Hope2008]

exercize social skills

Wow

 

[tiedyeddog]

One thing you could do is set up some service that coordinates undergrads who want to research with willing professors.

At my large state school we have an office for this. They often have little seminars where people come and listen to premeds who already research talk about their experiences. You need to connect the divide from "I want to research" to "doing research". It is often a huge unknown of how to find research or what kind of research is best for a student.

In general, the round-table type talks are good for premeds, it makes them less prone to anxiety based freak outs.

 

[Hope2008]

Any ideas for non-premed students?

 

[tiedyeddog]

Any ideas for non-premed students?

My suggestion about research stands for all disciplines. Research is carried out in fields other than science.