Community
“After our 211 final, Professor Alford and his wife made us a traditional New Orleans dinner, including alligator gumbo. It’s an example of how the classroom couldn’t contain all of our learning – for me, the lines were blurred, and some of my most meaningful chats with professors and classmates were outside of class time.”
Aka, the Honors College Blog. Here you can find stories of things that have happened or are about to happen in and about the Honors College. The most recent stories can be accessed through the listing on the right-hand side of all of our pages, but there’s lots of good stuff here as well.
Last century — the twentieth, that is — the Honors Program was housed in the original Robert Thomson Honors Center, a small, faculty-designed and student-built, one-story wooden structure near the site of the Memorial Union expansion. That was then. These days the Honors College has a dedicated residential component in Colvin and Balentine Hall (with additional housing in Penboscot Hall) and the new Thomson Honors Center has expanded from the first floor of Colvin Hall to include the new fourth floor of Colvin as well as the lower level and part of the first floor of Balentine. Come check it all out here.
From travel around the country and around the world to events right on campus, something is always going on at the Honors College. We hope these electronic scrapbooks will give you a good sense of what goes on on these trips, at these events, and throughout the Honors College. Here you will find chronicles of our trips to the NCHC conferences, our trips to Washington, D.C., stories of students studying abroad and engaging in international service opportunities, and much more.
Currently, approximately 750 University of Maine undergraduates are active members of the Honors College. This community includes first-year students learning the basics of college life in Honors 111, second and third-year students studying away all over the world and nearly 100 fourth-year students working diligently on their Honors theses. Here you’ll find features of some of our current Honors students – what they’re studying, where they’re from, what made them choose Honors at UMaine and what makes them unique and exciting members of the Honors Community!
