Honors advisors are faculty and staff members selected by their department heads to oversee the academic development of Honors students. We know that you will enjoy working with talented, engaged Honors students!
Advisor Responsibilities
As an Honors advisor, your responsibilities will include:
- Removing a registration holds (when imposed) in the Student Administration System, such as "raising the registration bar" (learn more)
- Providing major-related advice
- Determining what students may count toward the engagement in the major field for graduation as an Honors Scholar.
- Reminding students about Honors requirements, including minimum credit requirement of 6 Honors credits per academic year and minimum GPA requirement of 3.400.
- Approving Honors Conversion requests (in Kuali) and all other Honors forms
- Approving Honors Plan/Honors Final Plan in the Quest system
- Helping advisees select courses and confirming which courses will count towards Honors in the Major requirements and thesis work listed on their Honors Plan/Honors Final Plan.
- Students are expected to review their transcript for the "Honors credit" notation for any Honors graded or approved conversions before the start of the following semester.
- Courses taken for P/F or S/U or earning less than a B- cannot be used towards Honors requirements and will not earn the Honors Credit notation.
- Only courses that have been posted with "Honors credit" or will be taken in the future for Honors credit, or graduate work (approved by the Honors advisor) that are in the major or determined to be related to the major (approved by the Honors advisor) should be listed on the Honors Plan/Honors Final Plan.
- Working with advisees to help identify a faculty thesis advisor
- Reviewing and approving the Honors thesis in the Quest system
Honors Recruitment/Admissions: We encourage you to be on the lookout for outstanding students not yet in the Honors Program who might be interesting in applying. We also hope you will participate in events organized with Honors students, especially those intended to encourage interaction early between faculty members and incoming first-year Honors students.
Assignment of Advisees
During the summer, Honors Program staff or major department staff assign Honors advisors to incoming freshmen and newly admitted sophomores and juniors. The assignments are reflected in the Student Administration System (learn more). Honors works with individual departments to agree on appropriate protocols for assigning Honors advisors. (CLAS and Engineering make their own assignments for incoming first-year students. Nursing and Education assign advisors to newly admitted sophomores and juniors.) Contact Kate Korner in the Honors Program Office to discuss arrangements for assignment of advisees.
Please note that a student may switch advisors with the approval of the new advisor. The Honors student must also inform the Honors Program Office of the change.
Changes to Honors Advisors
Departments that change advisors are also asked to contact the Honors Program Office with the names of the outgoing and incoming advisors and the effective date(s).