About Us
Vision and Mission
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VISION
At the Judy Genshaft Honors College we strive to provide the finest Honors education experience in the nation.
MISSION
Our mission is to provide transformative, interdisciplinary educational opportunities
that prepare highly motivated, intellectually curious, and service-oriented students
to gain practical wisdom and become engaged thought leaders of the twenty-first century.
We are driven by three core commitments that reflect our collective convictions and
capture the interdisciplinary spirit of the college. These values infuse everything
we do —from our course offerings and experiential learning opportunities to our special
programs and events:
HEALTHY HUMANITY
The Judy Genshaft Honors College values a holistic view of individual and collective human well-being. We engage the humanities to explore bio-psycho-social-cultural dimensions of health and illness. This commitment is evident when students volunteer to facilitate therapeutic art experiences at a museum, take courses that examine the social determinants of health, or travel abroad to study other nations' health systems or experience other cultures' concepts of 'how to live a good life'.
SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
A sustainable future requires collaboration across economic, social, and academic sectors, addressing issues from environmental quality to sustainable social and economic structures. The Judy Genshaft Honors College is dedicated to fostering sustainable futures by encouraging students to understand real-world problems and develop creative, workable solutions for a better tomorrow. This value is expressed when students combine art, engineering, and ecology to 3-D print habitats for threatened species, develop personal philosophies of human flourishing, or create marketing plans to help local businesses adopt sustainable products for their economic benefit.
ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP
In the Judy Genshaft Honors College, we take seriously our individual responsibilities to our collective society and are committed to active participation in the civic life of our community, broadly defined. We value analyzing and influencing local, regional, national, and global policies and practices that improve the lives of everyday people. As engaged citizens, students might take a course with an elected official to learn about public policy in real-time, work with a local nonprofit to analyze organizational effectiveness and propose innovative solutions, or collaborate with peers in another country to tackle a global issue.