Student Involvement
How will you get involved?
Building Our Community Through Involvement: The Honors College Experience
The Honors College offers a wide range of enrichment activities, including guest speakers, service learning programs, Honors faculty discussions, reading groups, cultural events and trips, and a variety of other opportunities. In addition to attending these events, student leadership positions are available to Honors students in a variety of areas. For more information regarding the opportunities listed below, email the Honors College at honors@bgsu.edu or call us at 419-372-8504.
Explore student opportunities below.
Honors Fellows
Honors Fellows are a community of HLC students committed to furthering the mission of the HLC through cultivating relationships, developing intellectual and social programming, and serving as liaisons among HLC residents, Honors staff, and Founders Hall staff.
Intro to Honors Leaders
These returning students help facilitate the Intro to Honors orientation program. Introduction to Honors is a comprehensive program designed to welcome, orient, and prepare students as they join the Honors College. Interested in joining? Please email honors@bgsu.edu.
Honors College Ambassador
Ambassadors serve as positive student representatives for the Honors College at various recruitment events for prospective BGSU Honors students. They speak with these prospective students both one-on-one and in groups. They may also provide tours within Honors Housing.
Student Advisory Board (SAB)
Student Advisory Board (SAB) members provide advice regarding the evolution of the Honors College. In particular, SAB members offer input related to program requirements, course offerings, faculty and staff expectations, student involvement, and learning community expectations.
Honors Student of Color Group
BGSU Honors Students of Color seeks to equip our multicultural students with the confidence and tools to successfully navigate their experience not only in the Honors College but at BGSU. We hope to foster a healthy and safe space for our students of color to develop the skills to become the best versions of themselves.
Honors Societies
Receiving an invitation to join an Honor Society is a great recognition. It can help you enhance your professional development and leadership skills, get access to scholarships, and meet long-term goals. However, it is important to know that the societies you choose to join will actually provide you with these opportunities, and that they don't exist just to make a profit. In the Honors College, we are the home to a number of prestigious Honor Societies, including Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD), Phi Kappa Phi, Mortar Board Fayetta Paulsen Chapter, and Phi Beta Kappa. You do not need to be a member of the Honors College to join. Keep in mind there are other Honor Societies on campus, as well as a plethora of other student organizations to join. You can see a full list here.
ALD is an Honors Society that recognizes those students who have achieved a GPA of 3.5 or higher during their first academic year as a full-time student.
Mortar Board is the premier national Honor Society recognizing college seniors for superior achievement in scholarship, leadership, and service. Membership is synonymous with dedication and success. Only a select few students on each campus are invited to join this esteemed society, an honor that places them among the most amazing college scholar-leaders in the U.S.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has celebrated excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and championed freedom of thought. As America’s most prestigious academic honor society, we are uniquely equipped to advocate for the value and benefits of liberal arts and sciences education. The Xi of Ohio (BGSU) chapter was founded in 1982.
Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective Honor Society not limited by academic discipline, was founded in 1897. The society’s mission is to recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify.
Updated: 07/17/2024 11:50AM