Program Goals

The Honors Program is an all-college program which offers enhanced educational opportunities to students of outstanding achievement and promise.

Honors Program goals include:

• Cultivating students with exceptional promise, motivating them to take leadership roles inside and outside the classroom, and enriching their instructional and co-curricular careers as learners at Carthage and beyond;
• Encouraging creative cooperation between students and faculty as they engage in scholarly activities together;
• Strengthening the scholarly profile of the institution as a whole.

"In my first months at Carthage, the Honors Program was a haven for me to meet people I could connect with deeply on both an intellectual and social level. ... The people I met and the ideas and values I was exposed to within the program were essential in guiding my decisions regarding not only my major, academic interests and career path, but also my personal convictions and philosophies."

Michaela Ross, '07

"I entered the Honors Program to raise the bar for myself, and to open intellectual doors that I otherwise might have just passed by."

Brandon Begotka, '05