HONORS LIAISON CALENDAR
The following timetable is a guideline for you, the honors faculty liaisons. It is intended to help you organize your responsibilities for the academic year:
Semester I
August:
You will receive two lists and a form: 1) A list of all UHP students in your department/s, 2) A list of all non-honors program students in your department/s with a 3.2 GPA. These lists will help you determine which students are eligible for completion of an honors designation and 3) A form in which you send us the names and other identifying information on those students graduating in September and December, completing an honors designation in your department/s.
Required: 1) Please work on the form in which you send us the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of all students who are fulfilling “University Honors” or “Honors-in-Major” requirements in your department/s for both September and December graduation ( as mentioned above.)
Suggested: 1) Please also use these aforementioned lists to invite all eligible freshmen and sophomores to an information session on your honors-in-major program sometime in the fall before the pre-registration period begins.
September:
Required: 1) Please send your departmental honors-in-major list/s to the UHP by the deadline given. You are responsible for submitting the completed departmental forms to us. These lists will ensure that your department’s students will receive accurate honors designations on their transcripts and diplomas.
Required: 2) Check only one honors designation for each student.
Required: 3) If you have no one graduating with an honors designation in September or December, please check the box at the bottom of the form indicating this and submit it to our office or email this information to us.
Required : 4) Please sign honors designation forms for upperclass students (both UHP and Honors-in-major only) fulfilling an honors designation in your department. The students are required to submit the completed forms to the Registrar's Office during the three-week drop-add period at the beginning of the semester. (Another way to keep track of your students!)
Suggested: 1) Please inform your students graduating in September and December that they should print out certification forms from our website, complete their part, and have them signed by you or some other designated person in your department and bring them to us. We will inform these students through email as well.
We will not send the students’ names to the Registrar’s Office for official recognition on their diploma and transcript unless we have the completed certification form from them!
October/November
Suggested: 1) When you meet with your Honors-in-Major students during pre-registration, it would be useful to update an honors checklist or some other form you devise, in order to keep accurate records of the students’ progress in your honors-in-major program.
Suggested: 2) Please remind your University Honors students to stop by the Honors Program office at some point in the semester to inform us of their progress towards completion of the program.
Suggested: 3) Please send the UHP a copy of all thesis agreement forms completed during pre-registration (if your department is using them).
December and January:
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Semester II
February:
You will receive a list of all students in the UHP, as well as the 3.2 list of non-honors program students and the form to list the seniors graduating in May with an honors designation, as you did in August for the September and December graduates.
Required: 1) Please complete the form on which you send us the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of all students who are graduating in May and completing “University Honors” or “Honors-in-Major” in your department/s.
Required: 2) Please sign off on the honors designation forms for the upperclass students (both UHP and honors-in-major only) who are completing an honors designation in your department. The completed forms must be submitted to the Registrar's Office during the three week drop-add period at the beginning of the semester.
Required: 3) Please submit the departmental honors-in-major list/s by the requested deadline. You are responsible for submitting the completed departmental forms. These lists ensure that your students who complete the UHP are listed in the Convocation program and that all your UHP and honors-in-major students receive the appropriate designation on their diplomas and transcripts. (Of course, we realize that the students whose names you submit must successfully complete their spring coursework and submit a certification form in order to receive an honors designation).
Suggested: 1) Please inform your graduating students that they should print out the certification forms from our website, complete their part, and have them signed by you or some other designated person in your major department, and bring them to us by the deadline. We will inform the students through email as well.
Suggested: 2) Please remind your honors students to submit applications to participate in the Undergraduate Research Conference as well.
March:
Suggested: 1) Please remind your “Honors-in-Major” students to submit their completed certification forms to the Honors Program Office.
Suggested: 2) Please hold a meeting of all sophomores eligible for honors-in-major in your department/major before pre-registration, and inform them of the requirements for completion of it.
April:
Required: 1) Please inform our office if any students have decided to drop the honors senior thesis or there are any other extenuating circumstances of which we should be aware.
Suggested: 1) Please send the UHP a copy of all thesis agreement forms completed during pre-registration (if your office is using them).
Suggested: 2) Please follow the suggestions as listed under October/November for pre-registration of honors program students.
Suggested: 3) Please attend the Undergraduate Research Conference at the end of the month.
May:
See you at Convocation and Graduation!!
HAPPY SUMMER! We appreciate all the help you have provided us!