Honors Faculty are devoted and experienced professors who enjoy their subjects and care about teaching talented students. Their teaching methods foster inquiry with an emphasis on undergraduate research. Honors faculty members grade students against norms established in regular classes. Students are aware that, as a result of this arrangement, they will not be penalized for taking intellectual risks and participating in classes with other superior students. Honors courses emphasize quality over quantity.

Assignments are not merely more of the same, but encouraged students to think, write, and express themselves with clarity and grace. The excitement of exchanges within smaller classes and the stimulation of intellectual challenge make honors courses among the most popular on campus.

(Peterson's Guide to Honors Program and Colleges, 3rd ed., forthcoming 2005)

Distinguished Faculty Award Winners

Students are especially invited to submit nominations for this award, and can do so on the Continuing Student Scholarship Application. Nominations must be submitted to the Honors Office by the scholarship deadline. The recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award will be announced at the Honors Awards Day ceremony in April.

Distinguished Faculty Award link

Expectations of Honors Program Faculty Members

For more information on the expectations of Honors Program Faculty, please see the link below:

Expectations of Honors Program Faculty link

What is Honors Teaching?

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Faculty Mentoring

The Faculty Mentoring Partnership is a program of informal, relatively long-term mentoring requiring the mentor to be available as needed to discuss problems, listen, and share knowledge.

Faculty Mentoring link