Browsing: Honors College

Honors students will present their theses as part of a 21-year-old tradition known as Honors Week. The week long event will take place Monday through Friday.

The students will present the results of their theses that they have been working on for at least one to two years. Seniors in the program are required to present their thesis material to an audience of faculty and students during Honors Week.

When Baylor alumni talk about their experiences in the Honors College, one word continues to come up: Impact.

The Honors College, a collection of two majors, great texts and University Scholars, and two programs, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core and the Honors Program, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Almost 350 students live in the Honors Residential College.

A thought: what is the true cost of an honors degree? What are the benefits?

We can’t speak to the post-Baylor effects an honors transcript might grant the hard-working holder (being but students ourselves), but today we’d like to talk about in-house benefits.

The President’s Scholarship Initiative has reached $43 million and is on track to reach its goal of $100 million by May 2013, Ali Abercrombie, assistant vice president and campaign director, said.

Baylor students are being given the unique opportunity to practice ancient languages and complete advanced research on rare manuscripts, ultimately leading to the publication of important, unknown texts.

A Baylor professor has been awarded a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the poem “Ovide moralisé” from Old French into English, for the first time.

This summer Baylor will offer a specialty line camp specifically designed with Honors College members in mind. The new line camp, which is similar to the already established engineering and computer science specialty camp, will overlap with regular summer line camp sessions but will split the honors session students from the rest of the line camp participants.

Popular Christian authors Anne Lamott and Donald Miller will meet with an audience of students, faculty and the general public to discuss writing as an act of faith at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Jones Concert Hall in the Glennis McCrary Music Building.

Several administrative changes were announced Friday by Dr. Elizabeth Davis, executive vice president and provost, including the appointment of a new vice provost for undergraduate education and a national search for a new director of the Center for International Education.