Portrait of an Honors Scholar

Honors Scholar Cohorts are made up of students with different strengths. They contain people who are:

  • Curious. They have an insatiable drive to learn and actively seek out diverse learning environments.

  • Self-aware. They engage in meaningful self-reflection, identifying and addressing personal biases to strengthen their abilities to learn collaboratively.

  • Humble. They understand that they will never be able to know everything and welcome critique.

  • Empathetic. They consider the perspectives of others and contribute to the development of a world where all people thrive.

  • Resilient. They embrace intellectual struggle, persist through challenges, and approach learning as more of a process than an endpoint.

  • Creative. They have a knack for playing with ideas and impulses as they generate original, flexible, and integrative ideas. They embrace ambiguity and risk in the pursuit of innovation.