Honors Program Community
An engaging community is an integral part of Mount Union’s Honors Program. Students in the Honors Program spend a lot of time together in the classroom as they complete their curriculum requirements, but the Program also seeks to create a welcoming and engaging community beyond the classroom. The Program accomplishes this through several ways, including:
- University Honors Orientation - An event at the start of the academic year that allows students to arrive on campus early and develop relationships with fellow Honors students and professors through various social and intellectual activities.
- Honors Advocates - Honors Advocates serve as a support network for incoming first-year Honors students. Advocates assist with Honors Orientation and serve as mentors to their assigned first-year Honors students throughout the fall semester. Students apply to be Advocates during the spring semester of the previous year.
- Student housing - Housing opportunities that enable students to live near fellow Honors students in residence halls. With sufficient student interest, Honors students may also choose to live together in an Honors Learning Community (theme house).
- Honors Council - An Honors student organization that affords students the opportunity to provide leadership in curricular and co-curricular aspects of the Honors Program. Through events and activities, the Council presents students with the chance to make connections with peers across the program. Council members are elected and take responsibility for various aspects of programming, activities, and information about the Program. All Honors students are invited to participate in social, cultural and service events carried out by the Council.
- Service opportunities - Through both the Honors Council and Honors classes, students are presented with the chance to volunteer and make a difference in the community.
Honors Student Organization
The Honors student organization, the Honors Council, affords students the opportunity to provide leadership in curricular and co-curricular aspects of the Honors Program. Through events and activities, the Council presents students with the chance to make connections with peers across the program.
Leadership
Council members are elected and take responsibility for various aspects of programming, activities and information, including but not limited to:
- Planning social and service events and opportunities
- Representing Honors students to the faculty Honors Subcommittee
- Communicating information about national and regional honors conferences
- Addressing additional needs and interests as determined by the Council
Participation
All Honors students are invited to participate in social, cultural and service events carried out by the Council. In the past, such events have included trips to museums, meals with Honors professors, movie nights and making cards for residents of assisted living facilities.