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Honors College Report

October 2, 2014

Activities and News:

• The annual matriculation ceremony will be held in Foundation Hall on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 2 pm. A reception will follow in Grand Hall. The speaker will be Dr. Loretta McGregor, Chair of the Psychology Department at Arkansas State University. McGregor is a former SAU faculty member.
• The 2013 Honors Seminar class consists of 55 students.
• Twenty three honors students attended the Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Gainsborough exhibit at the Arkansas Arts Center on September 8, the last day of the exhibition.
• The annual Honors College pool party was held at the Magnolia Country Club on September 3, 2013. Food for the event was donated and catered by Marlar's Cafeteria. Twenty five students attended.
• On August 29, 2013 a meeting of all SAU Honors Students took place in Foundation Hall. (See photo below) David Wingfield called that gathering the largest meeting of SAU honors students in one place ever.
• At that meeting, Dr. Kardas announced an adopt an honors student program. That program, Honors College Adoption Program or HCAP, is now underway under the direction of Cheyenne Meyer. The idea is to create more communication between honors classes and to help new students more easily adapt to SAU and the Honors College.

• Honors College continues to search for a location for a late night study hall. Such a place would be open from midnight to 2 am and would serve any student looking for a quiet place to study during those hours.
• Dr. Trey Berry and Dr. Deborah Wilson have met with officials from South Arkansas Community College and Cossatot Community College about extending the Honors 2 + 2 program to those schools. The Honors College is hopeful that MOUs will be signed soon.