Honors Program
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The Honors Program is the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s flagship undergraduate fellowship. It is a highly selective year-long academic experience that offers fifty of the United States’ most promising undergraduates an opportunity to receive personal intellectual mentoring from elite professors committed to an honest exploration of the achievements of Western civilization.
Summer Conference
ISI Honors Fellows begin their year with a week-long, all-expenses-paid, intellectual retreat consisting of lectures and seminars led by ISI faculty members from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The program explores the ideas that underpin our American heritage, and that of Western civilization as a whole. The 2007-2008 Summer Conferences will be held in Quebec City, on the theme of “Law in the Western Tradition: Common, Constitutional, Natural, and Divine.” The first session will take place between June 25 and July 1, 2007, the second session between July 30 and August 5, 2007. Successful applicants will be invited to one or other of these two conferences.
Intellectual Mentoring & Library Building
Each Honors Fellow is paired with one of the faculty members from the Summer Conference, based on such criteria as field of study, or geographic location. The academic relationship between the Honors Fellow and this Faculty Mentor is, perhaps, the program’s most valuable component. The Fellow and Mentor work together over the course of the academic year on an individual course of study that is often not available to undergraduate students.
Honors Fellows interact with the other program participants via an online listserve, and at the several weekend colloquia that they are invited to throughout the year. Honors Fellows may also request books of their choice from the Institute’s publishing imprint, ISI Books, and receive such academic journals as The Intercollegiate Review.
Application Details
Honors Fellows are selected after a national competition held by ISI each spring. Applicants present, among other items, a résumé, 2-3 page personal philosophical statement, and a 5-10 page academic writing sample. Honors Fellows are selected for their potential intellectual and leadership abilities, as displayed in their application materials.
The postmark deadline for the 2007-2008 Honors Program application materials is March 30, 2007. ISI typically announces the new Honors Program class in May each year.
