The SAU Honors College is a great program. It offers many of the basic characteristics of a developed honors college. I would like to discuss the residential component, which SAU does a magnificent job of offering.
The Honors Hall building is a completely separate building from all the other halls. It is also one of the newest buildings on the SAU campus. The Honors College does have to share the hall with the leadership college, but honors students are housed in higher quality rooms. Honors students enjoy larger rooms, suite style showers, and better windows, all of which actually open. These accommodations may encourage others who have the ability to be honors students to apply, enroll and reach their full potential in school.
Also, separating the Honors Hall from the other halls is a good idea because most honor students like to be around people like themselves. Honors students are at a different level intellectually and socially from most other students, so for them to best develop they should be around each other. Living together will also keep them from feeling as if they don’t belong because they will always be around people similar to them. Feeling accepted is a basic human comfort, so to put them in a place where they are around similar students just seems to make sense. As well as comfort, honors students generally take the same classes especially the first two years of college, so putting them in a building together makes it easier for the students to work together on projects or other group assignments.
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