The Honors Program enhances classroom experiences through a wide array of intellectual, cultural, and social opportunities. Honors students, with faculty encouragement and support, assume visible leadership in a variety of contexts and help enhance the intellectual and cultural atmosphere on campus.

Students in Honors Council serve the campus and community through service projects and social activities, and through input into the curriculum and organization of the Honors Program.

• Honors Council produces a calendar of cultural and academic opportunities including readings, concerts, lectures, symposia, and trips to plays, operas, and museums-many of which are free or subsidized by the Honors Program.
• Honors students regularly travel to national and regional collegiate Honors conferences in cities such as Orlando and Washington to present the results of their research.
• Merely Players, a troupe that includes several Honors students, regularly performs improvisational theatre. Their venue is the intimate Studio Theatre.
• Honors students perform in campus and community musical groups, such as the Carthage Pep Band, the Carthage Choir, and the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra.
• Honors students skillfully balance academic study and participation in inter-collegiate athletics-programs in which they often become leaders and team captains. Many also compete in intramural sports.
• Each spring, seniors from various departments present their senior theses in a colloquium sponsored by Honors Council and organized by Honors students.