Honors College Community Agreement

Honors College Community Agreement

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Welcome to Honors! Through the Honors College and its living-learning programs (LLPs), the university lives out its commitment to investing in people, community, and student academic success. These programs depend on thoughtful and conscientious participation from all students, faculty, and staff.

Each year, approximately 20% of the first-year class is invited to Honors, making participation in one of these living-learning programs a privilege. Participants in Honors strive to the highest ideals of campus citizenship.

Honors students are respectful of their community, peers, and of faculty and staff. 

  • We honor the value that each person brings to the community.
  • We are intellectually curious, open to learning about differences, and respectful of different ways of knowing. 
  • We refrain from using racist, sexist, ableist, and other demeaning language in HC/LLP spaces, classrooms, and events. 
  • We practice kindness and consideration in our interactions with others.
  • We make positive contributions to the Honors community, both academically and in relationships with each other.
  • We take responsibility for the results of our actions, regardless of our intent.

Students who do not live up to these expectations may fall out of good standing in their program, which can have a number of implications, including but not limited to: being required to meet with program leadership to develop a plan for community participation; a block on registration for LLP courses; removal from leadership roles in the Honors College and/or the LLP; and/or a block on their eligibility to earn the Honors Citation.

Honors students must maintain a 3.0 GPA to remain in their Honors College living-learning program, and they must have a cumulative 3.2 GPA to receive the Honors College citation.  Students receiving lower than a C- in an LLP course may be removed from their LLP and the Honors College.  

Students whose conduct is sanctioned by the Office of Student Conduct, Resident Life’s Office of Rights and Responsibilities, or the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct may be removed from Honors.