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Title: IUPUI Honors Program


1
IUPUI Honors Program
2
Honors Student Profiles
  • Enrollment
  • 162 students currently enrolled on scholarship
  • Additional 173 participants in the program
  • Fall 2007 Entering Scholarship Class Profile
  • 26.05 of enrollment for AY07-08 up from 19.79
    previous year

3
Challenges and Opportunities
  • Challenges to underrepresented freshmen
    recruitment
  • In Indiana of 4,380 senior SAT test takers in
    June 2007 statewide, 123 (2.8) underrepresented
    students qualified for honors.
  • In Indiana and select metropolitan areas in NY,
    NJ, MI, KY, OH, IL, MO of 18,713 students from
    1,504 (8.04) underrepresented students
    qualified.
  • These are highly sought after students nationwide
    who routinely receive full ride scholarships from
    in and out of state schools competition is
    fierce.
  • Opportunities
  • Continue work with Admissions Center as well as
    UCOL and other units involved in outreach to
    underrepresented populations.
  • Coordinate recruitment of outstanding IUPUI
    undergraduates using increased funding made
    available for Continuing Student Scholarships.
  • Builds upper class cohort who can assist and
    advise with freshman recruitment
  • Students can serve as mentors to freshmen from
    diverse backgrounds

4
Promoting Diversity Through Academics
  • New course work
  • Global Dialogues
  • International Service Learning Course
  • New ways of earning honors credit
  • Area Studies
  • Substantive Foreign Language
  • Study Abroad

5
Promoting Diversity Through Engagement
  • AES assistants
  • Special Olympics
  • Charter School Coaching
  • Cripus Attucks Medical Magnet Middle School
  • Spanish translation services at area hospitals

6
Promoting Diversity through Association
  • Honors House
  • Scholarship programming
  • Honors Club
  • Alpha Sigma Lambda
  • Freshmen Honorary Societies

7
Honor Societies
  • Alpha Lambda Delta Phi Eta Sigma
  • Freshman recognition for outstanding academic
    achievement
  • National Scholarship and Award winners each of
    the past 5 years
  • National leadership workshops and conventions
  • Focus on service
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