Collective Dialogues Event

Honors students have long valued connections with faculty at BGSU. Resounding feedback from students points to connecting Honors students to faculty within their major early on in their college journey to enrich their BGSU experience. Faculty members have a history of building strong relationships with Honors students in the classroom, research lab, and beyond. Start those connections during our Introduction to Honors Program for first-year Honors Students at the Collective Dialogues Event.  

We ask for faculty support facilitating a Collective Dialogues session with a small group of first-year students in your discipline for one hour. Our hope is to provide first-year Honors students with some important and reinforcing messages from the deans, faculty, and advisors from our respective colleges and model some of our expectations for them as learners through this discussion.   

During this session students would have the opportunity to talk about a current or ethical dilemma facing the faculty member’s area of study, positioning the student’s undergraduate education within the context of the broader world. It will not be reasonable to expect that students will have done any homework before Intro to Honors, so the conversation would need to be “self-contained” within this one-hour session. 

For further details about Collective Dialogues, contact Shawna Babula, Honors Learning Community Coordinator, at sbabula@bgsu.edu or the Honors College Associate Dean, Jodi Devine, at jdevine@bgsu.edu.