"Developing students into global citizen scholars who lead innovative efforts toward solving the world’s complex problems." (From the UHP website).

What does that mean to me? The UHP works to help students like myself develop into the people they need to be to hopefully make the world a better place.

The University Honors Program is committed to offering students an individualized, student-centered approach to a meaningful undergraduate experience. To that end, we are dedicated to:

• Promoting activities that lead students to discover their passions and enhance their gifts and talents.

• Coaching students to purposefully engage in experiential learning opportunities and reflection to maximize and integrate their learning.

• Fostering a community that prioritizes transformational personal development, civic participation, and global responsibility.

(From the UHP website).

In order to graduate as a University Honors Program Scholars, students have to complete a minimum of five experiences during their undergraduate program. This is done with the help and guidance of our Honors Advisors.

Each Honors Experience is then followed by a reflection, in which students can look back and think about their experience and what they learned from it. The reflections for my experiences can be found under the Experiences tab.

An Honors Experience is like a project or engagement that UHP students take on. It can be pre-approved by the program, like my work with the CCRL. Or it can be self-designed, like my research experience with Professor Dziech.

UHP students need a minimum of five experiences to graduate as part of the program.

My reflections for each of my experiences can be found under the Experiences tab.

Thematic Areas are designed to focus Honors Experiences on helping students gain the skills needed to have a positive impact on the global community. Each Honors Experience falls under at least one of them. There are five, and they are:

1. Community Engagment

2. Creativity

3. Global Studies

4. Leadership

5. Research

To find out more about the Thematic Areas, click here.