The Honors Program at Fayetteville State University promotes inclusive excellence, recognizing and rewarding outstanding achievement throughout the curriculum. The Honors Program creates incentives for all students to achieve at a level that leads to graduation with distinction. The Honors Program also provides opportunities for high-achieving students to enrich their educational experience through research or creative activity, experiential learning, and co-curricular engagement. The Honors Program prepares students to excel in the careers, become civic leaders, and to achieve overall personal well-being.
Honors Experience
The University Honors Program promotes honors-as-experience. University Honors provides an honors experience in academics, community, and leadership. It allows students to follow their respective degree plan and does not require additional credits. University Honors employs a points system that is designed to encourage student participation and develop students as described in the program mission statement. The points system does not exclude honors course contracts; instead, it allows students other options to customize their honors experience (See table below).
Category | Points | Required | Note |
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Course Contract | 1-2 | 10 | 1-2 cr: 1 pt; 3-4 cr: 2 pts |
Service | 1 | 1 | Service-Learning Course or 15 Hours Service/Semester |
Presentation | 1-2 | 1 | Local: 1 pt; Regional/National: 2 pts |
Thesis | 5 | 5 | Honors Capstone or Thesis |
Elective | 4 | Contract, Service, and/or Presentation | |
Leadership | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 22 | Required for graduation with Honors |
First-Year Honors Experience
The First-Year Honors Experience (FYHE) is a year-long leadership development program designed specifically for first-time freshman in the University Honors Program that allows students to develop their leadership style through application and experience. The FYHE consists of two phases: professional development and a leadership project.
Honors Excellence
University Honors Scholarship
The University Honors Scholarship (UHS) Program promotes honors-as-excellence. The goal of UHS is to increase the number of students graduating with Latin honors in four years.
The UHS is awarded, at the beginning of sophomore year, to first-time students with a minimum GPA of 3.2 and 30 credit hours, with no previous merit scholarship(s) and is renewable up to three years. Students are awarded $750/year. (Note: This award is independent of the University Honors Program - Honors Experience.)
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Scholarship
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Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society (Rho Beta Chapter) National general scholarship honor society open to juniors/seniors in all academic areas to promote high scholarship; to encourage sincere and zealous endeavor in all fields of knowledge and service; to cultivate a high order of personal living, and to develop an appreciation for scholarly work and scholarly endeavor in others.
Membership Criteria