Students to live and learn in new honors community
Sarah Campbell
Issue date: 10/20/08 Section: News
Ashlie Anderson, president of the Honors College Association, said HCA may meet in the classroom building provided there is enough space for students to hold a meeting in that room.
All these benefits contribute to why this project is called the honors living-learning community.
"It is certainly an opportunity to network and interact with students who are most committed to academics," Fowler said. "We plan to have programming and activities of interest for honors students."
When the Honors College Residence Hall opens, Building Three in NorthPark Quads will no longer be classified as honors only.
"I don't have a problem with it," Alex Douglas, a non-honors senior communications major from Horseshoe Bend, said. "If you study hard, you get rewarded."
Some honors students already have considered the new Honors College Residence Hall as a housing possibility for fall 2009.
"It's good to have an honors dorm. It feels like we're being rewarded for accepting a more rigorous course schedule," Janet Jamison, an honors sophomore chemistry major from Monticello, said. "I plan to move into the new complex, and it's helping with the housing problem."
The construction of the living-learning community is not the only change affecting the 25-year-old Honors College. How the college operates has been shifted significantly, Oliver said.
From spring 2009 onward, continuing Honors College students and honors eligible incoming freshmen will no longer have to fill out application forms.
Incoming freshman who meet requirements will automatically be enrolled in the college via self-service, although they will have the option to decline enrollment in the Honors College.
Also in fall 2009, new requirements for the Honors College will be applied. Instead of the previous 24 ACT score or a 3.5 high school GPA, incoming 2009 freshmen will need to have a 27 ACT score and a 3.5 GPA to be honors eligible. A recommendation from either a professor or an academic adviser will still allow a student who didn't qualify as a freshman to enter the Honors College after one or more semesters at ASU.
All these benefits contribute to why this project is called the honors living-learning community.
"It is certainly an opportunity to network and interact with students who are most committed to academics," Fowler said. "We plan to have programming and activities of interest for honors students."
When the Honors College Residence Hall opens, Building Three in NorthPark Quads will no longer be classified as honors only.
"I don't have a problem with it," Alex Douglas, a non-honors senior communications major from Horseshoe Bend, said. "If you study hard, you get rewarded."
Some honors students already have considered the new Honors College Residence Hall as a housing possibility for fall 2009.
"It's good to have an honors dorm. It feels like we're being rewarded for accepting a more rigorous course schedule," Janet Jamison, an honors sophomore chemistry major from Monticello, said. "I plan to move into the new complex, and it's helping with the housing problem."
The construction of the living-learning community is not the only change affecting the 25-year-old Honors College. How the college operates has been shifted significantly, Oliver said.
From spring 2009 onward, continuing Honors College students and honors eligible incoming freshmen will no longer have to fill out application forms.
Incoming freshman who meet requirements will automatically be enrolled in the college via self-service, although they will have the option to decline enrollment in the Honors College.
Also in fall 2009, new requirements for the Honors College will be applied. Instead of the previous 24 ACT score or a 3.5 high school GPA, incoming 2009 freshmen will need to have a 27 ACT score and a 3.5 GPA to be honors eligible. A recommendation from either a professor or an academic adviser will still allow a student who didn't qualify as a freshman to enter the Honors College after one or more semesters at ASU.
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