Current Students

New and returning Chancellor’s Honors students should be aware that the 2007-2008 academic year is going to be one of continued development and growth for the CHP.  We need your help in order to fully realize the benefit of these changes.

At its core, we want the CHP to provide its students and prospective students excellent “University Honors” seminars, an expanding and thoroughly enriching and stimulating Honors Community, as well as significant support for both undergraduate research and international and intercultural learning.  Here are some of the ways we are working toward these goals in the coming year.

Courses

• This fall, and in accordance with the university’s over-arching Freshman Seminar initiative, the CHP is offering a new type of UH 100.  The line-up of faculty and topics is first-rate, including a course offered by Chancellor Crabtree on the nature of pandemics.
• The UH 200-levels this fall are perhaps the most intriguing and diverse in many years.  Next spring, we will require one UH 200 for the first-year students, but we expect to have additional offerings for returning students as well.  And never forget honors Service-Learning, a gem of a course taught by one of UT’s most charismatic professors, Dr. Robert Kronick of the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences.

Honors Community

• This year, all CHP students are welcome to join the Honors Community.  Place of residence and year of anticipated graduation are irrelevant.  The activities and events hosted by the Honors Community are for all community members.
• What’s more, the CHP is experimenting with a program in which the CHP matches every student’s $50 Learning Community fee, thus doubling the resources available for the community’s extracurricular activities.  In collaboration with University Housing’s administration and staff, the Honors Council, and, of course, the community itself, our hope is to create a stimulating learning community that serves the educational and social needs of its members.
• University Housing has set aside two additional floors in Morrill Hall for CHP students, including returning CHP students.  Over 60 CHP students have chosen to return to Morrill Hall, which portends great things for the Honors Community.

Research

• The CHP has initiated a program that will provide limited research support on a competitive basis.  All honors students, including CHP students but also students in college and departmental honors programs, will be eligible to apply for $500-$2,500 grants through the Honors Research Grant Program.

International & Intercultural Learning

• The Center for International Education will have a new Associate Provost & Director in 2007-2008.  The new Associate Provost & Director of the Center for International Programs is Dr. Pia Wood, formerly of Wake Forest University.  The CHP looks forward to collaborating with Dr. Wood and her CIE colleagues, not to mention Rita Geier and her Ready for the World colleagues, to expand, extend, and otherwise facilitate your study abroad, foreign language acquisition and cultural studies, service-learning in diverse communities in the United States, and other forms of international and/or intercultural learning.
• We fully expect to add international and intercultural learning as a graduation requirement in 2008.  In the meantime, we hope and expect every CHP student will consider the value of international and intercultural learning, and we stand ready to facilitate your ambitions in this direction in any way that we can.

2007-2008 is shaping up to be a banner year for honors education at UT.  In addition to the changes noted above, we are also experimenting with new approaches to admissions and scholarships, alumni relations, and communications.  As an example of the last, just look at our new web site!  If you haven’t met Lori Johnson, the CHP’s Communications Coordinator, please let her know what you think of this new web site, which is largely the product of her effort in the summer of 2007.