Honors Community

Late-night study sessions.  Group projects discussed at Hodges Library.  Students traveling together to present at an honors conference.  Guest speakers and special dinners every week in Morrill Hall.  Grabbing hot chocolate on a cold day in the Honors Lounge in Melrose Hall.  Getting hooked on Honors Service-Learning.

The signal feature of honors at UT is community.  Honors students collaborate in pursuit of academic excellence.  They stimulate and challenge each other, but they also engage in mutual support.

Honors caliber students typically participate in a Learning Community, which facilitate the creation of tight-knit and supportive academic communities around focused educational goals.  Students of engineering, agriculture, and architecture, for example, have their own living and learning communities, as do members of the Chancellor’s Honors Program and the Baker Scholars Program.

Honors students also participate in community outreach and serve as high-profile leaders on campus and beyond.  Individual achievement is balanced by commitment to others.