The Honors College is aware of the constraints that the Covid 19 pandemic has placed on some experiential learning opportunities many of you had hoped to complete as part of your Honors College Curriculum requirements.
In order to allow for more flexibility, we are removing the benchmarks previously in place (see highlighted text below) which limited the maximum credits per category to 9 credits and required 3 credits from non-coursework categories. Instead, students will need to complete experiences from a minimum of two categories listed. These changes are effective immediately.
Honors Experiences
In addition to Honors Colloquium and an Honors Seminar completed during your freshman year, prior to graduation students will select and complete a minimum of 16 credit hours of Honors Experiences from the following list:
Undergraduate Research*
Independent Study*
Internship or Practicum*
Study Abroad*
Undergraduate Supervised Teaching*
Accepted Honors Coursework
Graduate Coursework
Departmental Honors Thesis or Project*
Contract Honors Coursework
Honors Experience Petition
Additional Honors Seminar
Service Learning Coursework*
* Denotes non-coursework category
Benchmarks
You are allowed to complete a maximum of 9 credit hours per category. – this limit will be removed immediately
At least 3 credits must come from non-coursework categories, denoted with *. – this requirement will be removed immediately
Experiences must be completed from at least two of the above categories. – this requirement will be added immediately
Please make sure to adjust your Honors experiences plans as needed, and consult your Honors College advisor if you need assistance.
Honors College message about new
2020 S/U grading policy:
The Honors College will not
require students to receive or recover letter grades in order to meet Honors
College GPA eligibility requirements (3.3 overall undergraduate UB GPA freshman
year; 3.5 overall undergraduate UB GPA sophomore year through graduation). At
the conclusion of the spring 2020 semester we will evaluate all Honors students
based on their overall undergraduate UB GPA. At this time will be very mindful
of the unprecedented situation and its potential impact on students’ academic
performance.
If you are concerned about
grades or need support, particularly during this difficult time, please contact
your Honors College advisor; we are available and more than willing to help.
Here is a website with more
details about the new 2020 S/U grading policy and other important
student-related information. It is updated regularly, so please bookmark the
site and refer to it often: https://www.buffalo.edu/academicaffairs/academic-resources.html
Join us for a special Sip & Chat where we will hear from multi-disciplinary faculty on their unique project, with Computing for Social Good (C4SG @ UB), that WILL HAVE OPENINGS for Honors students to become involved and contribute. This is a great opportunity to earn Honors Experience credit!
Meet the staff:
- Melanie Sage is interested in the use of technology in social work education and practice, the intersections of technology and child welfare, family engagement in child welfare and child welfare practice with indigenous families.
- Kenneth Joseph is interested in the use of machine learning for social good from an applied perspective, and the ways in which people express themselves and opinions of others on social media.
- Atri Rudra is interested in the use of machine learning for social good from a theoretical perspective (including identifying the pitfalls of its use).
- Huei-Yen (Winnie) Chen is interested in human-machine interactions and how best to support operator performance in dynamic, complex systems, such as transportation and healthcare.
- Varun Chandola is interested in the use of machine learning for social good from a data mining perspective, and who studies scalable anomaly detection and data mining for big graphs, temporal, and spatial data.
What this particular project is about:
- There are more than 400,000 youth in foster care in the US, and each year more than 20,000 age out of foster care without reunifying with their families. The outcomes for these youth are poor. Fortunately, youth in foster care are potentially eligible to receive services, such as vocational training, that may improve their chances at positive life outcomes. However, caseworkers are typically only able to identify youth for these services after the youth experiences a relevant need or crisis. To address this problem, our final goal will be to provide a system that assists caseworks to identify youth in need of services before a crisis occurs. Developing this system includes surveying case workers in the field to identify their needs and then using this information use data visualization (and machine learning) tools to help them make better decisions.
Event Details:
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Don Schack Lounge
Please fill out the survey at this link to give us an idea of your interests and we will get back to you!
Please email Kenny Joseph (kjoseph@buffalo.edu) and/or Atri Rudra (atri@buffalo.edu) if you have more questions (but please do fill in the Google form above!)
The Impossible Project: Discrimination
Friday, December 6, 2019
5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Center for the Arts
Catering by Dapper Goose
Thirty two scholars, seven peer mentors, six faculty advisors, five film students and one impossible project.
Impossible Project: Discrimination, a daring pedagogical experiment developed in the Honors College where first year students are tasked with solving a world problem.
In Collaboration with UB’s Arts Collaboratory, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, University Honors College and Office of Inclusive Excellence.
Join us for our HSC Halloween Sip & Chat takeover! Stop by the Honors Lounge on Wednesday, October 30th from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM for some spooky Halloween fun. We will be decorating mini pumpkins and eating fall-themed treats. You don’t want to miss this!
Our Honors Student Council will be hosting a Therapy Dog Study Break in the Don Schack Lounge on Thursday, October 17th from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm.
We hope to see you there!
Honors/Acker
Student of Color Council (HASOCC)
The Honors-Acker
Student of Color Council is an intentional space where students of color from
the Honors College and Acker Scholars Program can come together to share their
experiences, facilitate meetings, plan programs and provide recommendations to
the Honors College and Acker Scholars Program.
Contact honors@buffalo.edu
to request more information and details about how to join!
I wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity in
the Honors College – to become an Honors Student Ambassador.
Honors Student Ambassadors are comprised of a group of Honors students who will
help recruit prospective students to UB and Honors. As an Honors Student Ambassador, you will
play an important role in providing a current student perspective to high
school students who are considering the University and Honors.
As an Honors Student Ambassador, you will conduct campus
tours, assist with events such as UB 360 and Discovery Days, and may even have
the opportunity to help with our social media. In return, you will get to
be part of a dynamic group of students, gain leadership and communication
skills, receive a $100 stipend as well as UB Honors apparel.
If you are interested, please consider applying using the attached application. The application is due to Honors (106 Capen Hall) by 4:30pm on Wednesday, August 28th. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
I hope you will consider applying and look forward to seeing you soon!
-Tim Matthews: trm7@buffalo.edu
Apply Here: https://blogs.honors.buffalo.edu/honorablemention/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/08/Honors-Student-Ambassador-Application-2019-2020.docx
“HSC
Week is here! Come join us for the activity filled week. We have everything
from Therapy Dogs to food to extended lounge hours! Learn more about the events
in the posters throughout the week or on the HSC Week Bulletin by the Lounge
entrance. See you there!
Also
keep an eye out for the apparel sale that will be coming out soon, check out
the poster below for the items we will be selling and there prices.
–
HSC E-Board”
Honors
Highlights
Therapy
Dogs, 12pm Monday April 8, 2019
Sip
& Chat, 12pm Tuesday April 9, 2019
Extended
Lounge Hours, 4pm-8pm Wednesday April 10, 2019
General
Body Meeting: Platform Night, 4pm, Thursday April 11, 2019
Honors
Mini Golf, 4pm, Friday April 12, 2019
Day
of Service and Hike, Sign up at the front desk, Saturday April 13th 2019
Changes to the Honors College Greiner Shared Interest Housing Program effective 2019-2020
The Honors College is suspending the sophomore Greiner Special Interest Housing program effective for the 2019-2020 academic year. We support participation in all University at Buffalo Living Learning Communities and encourage our students to consider a variety of options detailed here: https://www.buffalo.edu/campusliving/find-your-home/living-learning-communities.html (note: while the Honors College Greiner program may still be listed on this site, it will not be offered for 2019-2020).
