Honors College Committee

Academic Year 2022-2023

Committee Members

  1. Lancie Affonso
  2. Deborah Boyle
  3. Brigit Ferguson
  4. Bryan Ganaway (non-voting member)
  5. Mike Maher (committee chair)
  6. Melissa Negreiros
  7. Gabrielle Principe
  8. Joelle Reich (student representative)
  9. Lilli Taylor (student representative)
  10. Anna Uribe

 

Summary of Completed Activities and Discussion

  1. Participated in the scholarship weekend processes.
  2. The committee approved the following curricular changes.
    1. Moving HONS 226/HONS 227 from the colloquium to the Foundations.
    2. Creating two new REI courses to mirror the new HIST 117 and HIST 118 classes in the history department.
    3. See if the Engineering capstone courses (ENGR 470/471) can be listed as courses that count for the BE.
    4. Convert a special topics humanities class (ethics) taught by philosophy to a catalog number (HONS 176).
    5. Convert a special topics humanities (art history) class taught by Brooke Permenter to a catalog number (HONS 177).
    6. Convert an honors advanced special topics course (Molecular Biology) taught by Renault Geslain to a catalog number (HONS 312).
    7. Approved the creation of HONS 303 (equivalent of FINC 303)

Leadership will change for 2023-’24 academic year. Kate Pfile will be the next HONS committee chair.