Honors Liaisons assist students in their department with identifying potential faculty mentors and research and experiential learning opportunities. They may also assist with developing honors course sections, honors-by-contracts, and honors-ready course options within their field of study.
A key responsibility of the Honors Liaison in many departments is to arrange Honors Project presentations. *In some fields presentations are coordinated at the College level or take place within Capstone courses
The Honors College encourages colleges and departments to use these presentations as an opportunity to showcase your students (if you wanted to you could invite donors, parents, alumni) and we encourage setting up conference-style presentations following the conventions of your discipline.
Beyond the minimum time (10 minutes as per the Commonwealth Honors Program requirements) these presentations can be as long or as short as you would like. The student’s thesis/project mentor, committee member(s), and a member of the Honors College must be present. Presentations must be live (not pre-recorded)
At the beginning of each semester, we will provide you with a list of Honors Students in your department so you will have an estimate of the number of students graduating. We will send information on students who’ve completed proposals in your department at the proposal deadline.
If you are hosting panel presentations, book space through your department or college or through R25.
Fall Honors Project Presentations need to be scheduled between the Monday after Thanksgiving and the final Friday of Finals Week. Spring Honors Project Presentations must also be completed by the final Friday of Finals Week.
We will designate an Honors Representative to attend your department’s presentation(s) once they are scheduled. Inform us of the presentation date, time, and location no later than two weeks prior to the presentation.
If your Department has presentations for senior seminar, capstone, showcase, etc. and students are using these courses for their H8, invite the Honors College.
At the discretion of the Capstone Professor and the Honors Mentor, students may combine their Capstone group presentation and their Honors Presentation or they may schedule a separate panel presentation for Honors Capstone students.