Key Considerations for Advising Honors Students at Regional Campuses

• Direct outreach to your regional advisees can go a long way in saving you time, helping you connect with students, and making sure they know you’re accessible.  
  • Particularly if you are on another campus than a student; if a student doesn’t recognize your name or hasn’t heard directly from you, they may not be inclined to reach out as regularly.  
  • Students are not notified when an advisor gets changed in StudentAdmin because this can happen at any time. If you see a new student appear or you have recently been added to a student’s list of advisors, please send them an email (we encourage students to do the same!). 
• Consider any barriers to completion of Honors Scholar on a regional campus 
  • Are there Honors courses that you usually tell students to take that are only offered in Storrs? If so, consider alternatives or reach out to Kaitlin Heenehan and Jaclyn Chancey re: Types of Honors courses. 
  • Do students need to use the Student Enrollment Request form to add an Honors course on their campus (common for independent study, research, or thesis courses, if not already listed on StudentAdmin)?  
• Think about Engagement in the Major - particularly if you have a department-wide expectation, make sure what you’re requiring is accessible to regional campus students.  
• Ensure any departmental websites about Honors include info about completion on regionals and any Honors advisor(s) available on regionals or dedicated to regional campus students.
• If you use Nexus, you can sort your list of advisees by “Campus” and by “Honors"
  • If you don’t see the “Honors” category, click on “Add/Remove Columns” at the top of your advisee list and select “Student Groups (Honors)”
• Pin these pages (Plus this Advisor Toolbox) to help remind you/your students about Honors requirements and deadlines:  
  • • Honors requirements page 
    • Timeline to Graduation page 
    • Current Honors Courses page (the full list of all Honors courses can be sorted by campus; Dynamic Class search works well for this too)
• Students can meet with a member of the Honors GPS team to talk about Honors co-curricular graduation requirements and connect with the Honors community through events and engagement opportunities. Check out the latest Honors GPS schedule here.