Capital Scholars Honors Program

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Absolutely. So first of all, welcome everybody and thank you for coming to our first ever web and R. We appreciate you coming. My name is doctor mark cling churn. I am the director of the honors program here at UIS and I am also an associate professor of chemistry and also a pre professional advisor. So if by chance you decide to come to you IS and want to pursue premed I would also be helping you with your.

Advising for Med School and all that good stuff. Um, I'm joined here today by one of my great colleagues, Karen Barker. She is our senior coordinator of recruitment on operations and she and I work very closely together.

All aspects of the program, so I'm going to turn the majority this over to her, but I will be here in the wings, answering questions and all that other good stuff. So Karen, if you would please.

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OK Alright well thank you doctor um so uh my doctor Clinton said I am um basically their recruitment in advising coordinator for the Honors Program. I'm the one that generally um meets with students face to face when they come to campus for a campus visit. And so I'm going to kind of go through my little spiel about the honors program and then we'll open it up to questions. This presentation is kind of designed for.

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Potential our perspective students as well as already admitted students so and doctor kling sure. And if you have questions he will be on the chat side of it and so he'll be monitoring that and be answering those. And then if there's you know questions at the end. Of course we can address those but.

And let's get started. OK, so um, for those of you who are from the area were not from the area, just a little bit of background about the University, the University of Illinois used to be stagnant State University and in 1995 we became U of I and part of the UI system. At that point we were a transfer school and so we didn't have any freshman or sophomore's on campus and.

Hum, I calm the powers that be. They decided that they wanted you YS to look like the other two. If I, uh, universities, and we became a four year institution, and the way that they figured the easiest way to kind of transition us into that would be to start with a smaller cohort of students. And so they designed the honors program 1st, and so the capital scholars honors program is the first freshman class that came to campus.

So we have been a four year institutions since 2001. Uhm, and so that's kind of exciting that were, you know, coming up on a big milestone here. Um, the Honors Program. There's a couple differences between the traditional program coming in as a traditional freshman an the Honors Program. One of those differences is that we do have a two year on campus residential requirement.

Even if you live in the Springfield area and can actually see your house from the top of our building, you would still be required to live in the residence Hall for your first two years. And the reason we do that is because we have a living learning community that is kind of the focus and the foundation of our program. An I can explain a little bit more about what goes into that other than just a residential requirement, but for the first year, students live in what we call

The Lincoln residents home and then for the second year, we have a second residence Hall where everyone will move to founders. Every honor student, whether you're in Lincoln or founders, your first or second year, you will be housed.

In a sweet so we have a sweet style where there's two rooms Anna bathroom for every sweet and each room houses to students. So there's four students sharing one bathroom. And because of this living, learning community, all honor students will live with other honor student. Even if you're an athlete. I mean, we have a lot of athletes in our program and they do very well. Athletes honor students. We try to house with other athletes as well. So just because you're.

Any athlete doesn't mean that you won't be apart of this uhm communities, though that's kind of how the The learning or the living situation is.

And so that's like I said, we have a living learning community that's that's built in in place there. So, um.

Let's move on to the next one here. A couple of the perks of the program. Normally, if I would meet with you in person, I kind of going to tons of detail about all of these. But um, for the purposes of this, uh, we're just going to highlight some of the major parts of the program, and why students I get the question all the time. Why students would pick the Honors Program, um, and so so one of those is that every honor student does get a brand new laptop Dell Computer. They get them the second day they arrive on campus.

Uh, we do all the maintenance on him. All the programming, if it breaks, we fixed it. If we can't fix it will get you another one. It sure is over summer over winter break. Um it's it's basically yours until you graduate up there. Very, very nice machines, um. Also every student in the honors program does get an honor scholarship. An if you've already been admitted to the program for the fall, you will have noticed that that has already been assessment assigned to you or awarded to you.

Uh, minutes based on a grid with your AC TS 80 in GPA combined an we have a slide that for those who haven't quite applied yet or wondering how that scholarship kind of came about and there's a slide a little bit later that goes into more detail. Um, another one of the perks for the honors program. As that we have a mentoring and tutoring program that is just through the Honors Program.

And those of you who are coming in in the fall, uhm, we are. We put together a list of mentors. They are hand picked. They go through an inner inner interview process. They are.

An recommended by professors. UM, their high achieving students they you know, are great mentored leaders and you will have the opportunity those who are coming in in the fall. Uhm will. I'll be sending out biographies of all of our mentors annual be able to choose like your top three. I'm choices based on their biographies and then you'll be able to write a biography to your mentor so they can get to know you before.

You get to campus. You also get their contact information and so it will be kind of like your first friend. Um, on campus in the mentoring program, not only just mentors individual students, but they do mentoring events throughout the earth. So, um, we have this great room. It's called in the RH residence Hall were all of our programming happens an our mentors put on events such as choosing your major stress Busters. There's.

You know money management, some studying abroad, all kinds of different things. Even maybe learning styles. Uhm, it's just really to help you with that transition from high school to college and help you be successful that first year. They're very well trained, uh, meant words, uhm. And so that's definitely part of the living learning community. Also, the tutoring tutoring program is an option for you guys.

I know that you are honor students and a lot of times tutoring is not looked upon as like you know something that honor students would need, but not every student is successful at every discipline and so we have this tutoring program, um, that meets a three times a week. Are tutors are also trained and are picked for certain.

Disciplines to tutor in and so we have like group tutoring sessions where you can meet one on one with the tutor. Maybe it's just to look over a paper or you need help with a certain project project. Were math problem or something. So we have that available for our honor students as well. Now we do have a learning hub through the University as well that you could get some additional tutoring, but we do have this in-house tutoring program.

Another perk of the program, what we think it's Burke, is that all of our cap faculty and staff are located in the Lincoln residence Hall, where our students will be living there first year. So if you're if you have any questions or any problems like we said, Doctor Kling stern is right there. I'm right next to the mailboxes in the main lobby of LR. A chance I'm very accessible for quick check your Mail Poppin ask a quick question.

Um were very, very accessible also down the the one wing. Uhm, they have all of our writing faculty down that wing until you'll be taking our writing composition sequence, which I'll explain leader that first year, and so are writing faculty are located there, so if you have any questions or need some help with the prompt, all you have to do is literally walk downstairs, walk down the Hall and you know go into their office and ask for help.

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Another thing that we do in the honors program is academic success plan meetings.

There's two main advisors in the Honors Program, an that's myself and Courtney Um, and so we will do your academic advising for any major those first two years. And so you're kind of ours. The first, to the reason we do, advising for the first two years. Basically only is because you're honest company or your honors course sequence. Then curriculum is taking those first two years are courses.

That you take through the program meet lower division general education requirements that all students have to meet in order to graduate from the University. And so, um, your junior in senior year is focused mostly on your major and minor requirements, and so our courses meet those Gen Ed requirements. Those Lower Division One and 200 level classes. Those first two years, and so that's why we do cap advising those years.

And then our academic success plans Courtney and I we meet with each and every one of our freshmen while they come in their freshman year. First semester and um and we would do um success play meetings for about 1/2 an hour. We talk to you about what worked for you in high school, what you're nervous about for college. We do these between sometimes the second and third week, sometimes the 3rd and 4th week up the first semester, just to make sure like your.

Eating or sleeping. You have your books. Um, you're getting along with your roommates. Um, there's no like major challenges that you're facing. An if there are some things that we can help set up clean up for you. Maybe it's counseling. Maybe it's setting stuff with the disability services or getting a tutor for a class that you know that you're maybe you're not really strong in math and you're taking a math class your first semester, and you're really nervous about that. So maybe we're going to set you up with the tutor right away, so it's just.

Our way to get to know you and also make sure that were setting you up for success instead of you coming to as mid semester and um, feeling like you're in the weeds. So um, that's kind of our proactive approach to that. And Courtney and I is advisors. We do those academic success plan meetings.

No, I did say that, uh, your honors courses are basically taking your first two years, but you do have a senior, a class that you like a closing seminar class that you take your senior year, but those first two years are really locate are really focused on, um, are honors classes. But you are considered an honor student for four years. Even though we're not doing your advice in your junior and senior year, your hours for four years.

And one of the perks of the program is that when you graduate, you're not only graduating from EU of I institution, but it is notice on your transcripts and on your diploma that you graduated from an honors program. So it looks really marketable for you, especially if you're wanting to go on to a professional school or getting your first job or going to Graduate School. Even doing internships. Having that noted that you are part of an honors program does definitely make you stand up for service so.

Hum, so that is definitely, um, some of the perks of being an honor students. Now we're going to move on here.

And so the curriculum is different, and so I'm going to the next flight. I'm going to go into will go into detail about what classes you will be taking those first two years, so the honors program has kind of that foundation to our program and one of the foundation in, um, is the living learning community like I had unstated, and the other part is, is that?

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Is the critical thinking in reading and writing component of our program. Now I get the question all the time when I meet with families and students who were honor students in high school and they're like really concerned about going to four year institution, especially a U of I institution and um.

I'm getting distracted by the questions. Uhm and so on. Are students are really concerned about like getting into an honors program in college and they're like, well, I did all these AP classes. I've done all these high level courses and I just want to be able to go to college without having the pressure of being a part of an honors program. So this slide kind of talks to you a little bit. If you want to just read it over about some of the curriculum strength that our curriculum.

Gives you which is your soft skills, your public speaking, leadership skills. We do a lot of group projects in our course dazed because we want you to become a leader in work. Well in a team environment and have those public speaking skills and Doctor Klingshirn always says when he does a presentation you know that employers always say that what graduates are lacking is public speaking and so we start you out doing those public speaking things.

Right, you know right out of the gate. Uhm, when you're in our program and then of course the technical skills like critical thinking, um, writing, so our program is really heavy on reading and writing and critical thinking. So when I have students that come to me and say, you know, I don't really know if I want the high pressure of being in an honors program and going to four year institution, I always tell them, You know, that it's not our courses. Meet certain Jeanette requirements and.

You will see here in a minute that, UM, for the first two years you will take a couple of honors classes each semester for your first two years. You're not completely taking honors classes for those first two years. There's a combination of classes, and so you're not completely overwhelmed with all honors coursework and so really, our classes. You know, I don't like to say like they're not difficult because they are challenging and they do.

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Really, um, stretch your mind and we want you to think out of the box and think critically about things. And, um, there is a lot of reading an A lot of writing. And so when Doctor Kling Shern looks for students to admit to the program, he wants to make sure that you are strong in the areas of reading and writing because we want our students to be successful in our classes. 'cause we know that our courses are, you know, really focused in those.

Areas, and so those are, you know, kind of the foundation skills that are program sets are students you know up with so, um.

So that's kind of like the background of that. And then I'm going to kind of the next slide. Here is going to kind of breakdown the courses that you'd be taking as an honor student. Now these are the classes that only honor students who are in the honors program can take the Honors Program only admits incoming freshman to the program because we have a lock step curriculum. What you take your first semester, you have to pass and then build on to the next sequence. Of course, is your second semester.

And then the next course says you're you know. Third semester an 4th semester, and so, um, there is. You know, really kind of a science to it and.

We have advising guides and so I don't know if you all have pens and papers to write this down then I probably should have put the link in here, but, uh, we have advising guides for every single major uhm on campus and, um, our program works with all majors except for nursing, 'cause the nursing program is part of the UI C.

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University and so on. But every other major that we offer to undergraduates are program works with.

And so we have advising guides and so, if you are familiar, which I hope you have gotten on line and got on our website. But if you go to the homepage of you? Why us and then uh on the right hand side. There's an A-Z and X if you click on the agency index and click on C for Capital Scholars Honors Program. Then you want to click on the left hand side. There is a link for curriculum and then under curriculum. There isn't link for advising guides now I have not posted.

For fall 20 in spring 21, yet 'cause I'm still working on those updating those. But you will see the 19 and 20 on there an you can literally just go through and look at all of the majors and what you will notice is that every single major are honor. Students are taking the same classes at the same time and so that's where that living learning community really comes into play because we want our students to have the support of others honor students.

Doing the same classes at the same time. So what you're learning in your classroom, you're actually bringing back into the residence Hall and having discussions about that. Working together with your kowert your roommates are sweet means people down the Hall, uhm, and also it keeps you on track. You know, uhm, you wouldn't believe how often roommates you know in suite mate, swollen friends in the honors program would be like, hey, did you start that project, you know, did you, you know?

Are you a working on this? Have you done this? Have you met with your instructor? I mean, they really kind of keep each other on task, which is really great to be a part of a program that everyone is kind of working towards the same goals. Then they're kind of the theme like minded student. And so when you look at those advice.

Amazing guides what you'll see on there is your freshman first semester. You'll take our freshman seminar which is our cap 102 class. It is a two credit hour course that is a seminar class that is.

It's designed to be kind of an easy a course. Um, it's not designed to trip students up. It's designed to help students with that transition from high school to college. No matter how ready you are for College in how much, uhm, you know, you know how well you did in high school and all that. No matter if you come to you. I asked if you go to a A2 year institution if you go to another four year institution, that first semester is the most challenging one of the most challenging semesters that you'll have is because you are making that transition.

You're moving away from home. You're living in a residence Hall. You're taking college level courses your time. You have more free time because you're not going from you know 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning until 3:15 everyday. And so the structure of the classes are different in so it is a transition and so that seminar class teaches you all kinds of things. We get you in connection with your mentor. We get you connected with faculty in your major that you're wanting to go into.

There's all kinds of great things that you get to learn in that in that course in it helps with that transition, and so you see on here there is a minimum grade of a C or higher to remain in the honors program. And like I said, that course is designed to be an easy in easy A course. So um, so that shouldn't be a problem for most students. You have to really try not to get AC in that class. I mean not to get an A in that class. I mean, it's it's. It's very helpful though.

With the transition, um? Also, if you look at this advising guides, you'll see your first semester and 2nd semester. You'd have to take a writing compositions sequence which is kept 111 and kept 115. Uhm. A lot of students that we work with are honor students in Fortson High School and they take AP composition, literature and language and literature to meet the English like 101102 curriculum or corset sequence.

Um, the one thing we do honors program is that those AP classes or dual credit English courses well come into you YS indefinitely. Meet hours toward your 120 hours to graduate. However, to be in the Honors Program, you do have to take a writing composition sequence, and I always say this. You know, I've been in my job for 15 years and I have never, ever had a student come to me and tell me that our cap 111 and 1:15 writing sequence.

Is a uhm? Is it repeat of what they learned in their English AP? Um language in literature horses, we have a completely different curriculum. We just hired a brand new coordinator of our writing composition sequence an she's just finishing up her first year and she's kind of revamped that, and so it's just they teach you different ways of writing, and so it's not going to be a repeat. So if you've had English composition.

Wouldn't you?

Coming in just know that can only help you do well in our writing composition sequence, so don't feel like that's kind of a waste or anything like that. It can only help you. And like I said, it is the foundation of our program is the writing and reading portion, and so those courses are essential to our program.

Next in the list is our cap 141 and 142 science sequence, and you'll see on there. It's for non science majors, so any of you who are premed uhm.

Bird biology biochemistry chemistry any course a more even if your psychology major want to go the premed track and have to take our general chemistry, in general biology for your science you would be exempt from taking cap 141 and 142, so it's designed for non science majors in it's also interdisciplinary, so that's another word that the Honors Program

Courses make it different from the traditional program is that they are interdisciplinary, and So what that means is these science sequence is.

A combination of biology and chemistry, so you're taught by a biologist and a chemist, and the great thing for you guys is that the chemist is doctor klink, churn and so you have him in the office um and students. I can always tell when there is, uh.

An exam coming up because there's like a little line of ants that are going into you, know his his office asking questions and he is the most uhm student focused instructor in. Of course he is the director of the program, but his students absolutely come first and so he is always willing to help a student figure out anything that they don't understand. But those are designed for non science majors and so for science majors you would take the general biology sequence in the general chemistry secret.

Sequence.

Now the question here is also if you have biology or chemistry AP coming in to uas and you are a non science major we would exempt you from taking the bio chem bio our cap 140 one 142 sequence and um we would just have you take if you came in with AP biology we would have you take a non science major science to meet that requirement. So there is some wiggle room in there about not having to.

Repeat that, uhm, so next tier list is our question courses which are also interdisciplinary classes. There's four of them that you'll see the first semester. You'll take kept 122. The second semester you'll take 123 your sophomore year. First semester you'll take 225 and the next semester your last semester of your sophomore year. You'll take cap 226. Now those are sequenced courses. You do have to pass.

Want to move on to the other one?

And those are also interdisciplinary. So what that means is they meet the humanities and social science requirements for graduation. So if you looked at the curriculum in order to graduate from the University, you would see that you needed six social science credit and six humanities credits in order to graduate from the University. And so, like I said before, as an honor student, you're not taking really additional classes. You're just taking different ones to meet the same.

Parents, and so, um, are kept 120. Two 123 to 25 to 26 courses meet six hours to Humanities in six hours of Social Science in order to graduate from the University. And so you're just taking different classes to meet those same requirements.

Those are lecture based courses. There's a lot of reading in there. There is a lot of writing, and there also, um, but those classes. The instructors really want you to come to class. You'll notice at the University or class sizes average between. I don't know 14 and 17 students each class, and so participation in attendance is highly encouraged. Recommended because we want the most students to come to the class and come prepared because.

If you have a class that has 316 students and eight of them don't come one day, and you're supposed to have this big discussion about something that you read and have the class, isn't there, that discussion isn't, you know, as a meaningful and you don't get as much out of it, and so they really want you to come prepared. And so it's about, you know, reading something. Uhm, so so you know you have a lecture and then you know you might have class discussion for the last half hour of the class about what your thoughts and feelings are.

And bringing up your own thoughts about things in opening up your mind for critical thinking, and so that's where those critical thinking skills also come into play.

And so I didn't say this, but cap 102. Uhm, in the traditional program for freshmen they have a general freshman seminars. Well, so that's another like equivalent course within the traditional program. An honors program, the writing composition sequence in the traditional program, it's English 101 and 102, and then the science sequence. Everyone needs a science, 8 hours of science with lab to graduate. And so that means that requirement in our question for stays.

Meet the six hours of Humanities in six hours of social science. Uhm, we also have a global awareness course that we require our students to take. We call it cap two 5350 because there's lots of options for that. There is 200 and 300 level classes and that requirement just needs to be done sometime before you graduate, so it's not really on the guide. You know necessarily anywhere stuck in there, um, so that can be kind of moved around, but the other courses absolutely must be taken into sequence.

And completed within those first two years. The other class on there is your senior seminar class and that's taken your senior year. We can break it up into two semester.

There's there's a paper in presentation that's involved in that UM and it's it's a really great thing it's kind of almost like a mini thesis if you will come and you do have to have a greater see AC or better in both the paper and presentation in order to past and in graduate from the honors program so that kind of breaks down the curriculum alittle bit an I do encourage you if you haven't to go on to the website and look at those advising guides and see how they all play out within every single major.

OK, so the next slide here is our global awareness requirement. This is kind of the only requirement that is.

Not? Uhm, that that is unique to our program. Um, this requirement we want our students to be, uhm, very globally aware, um, about you know, the the world and we have this this requirement. It is 14 to 16 hours that cap two 5350 global issues. Course does me hours towards this requirement. Modern language needs hours towards this requirement. If you're planning to study abroad.

Um, that was me. Our sources requirement. Alot of classes. Um, some majors have courses that are considered global course days that would also count towards this and so don't look at it is like Oh my gosh, this is an extra 14 to 16 hours. I have to meet. It's really very easy to complete. I do all the audits an make sure our students complete this requirement before they graduate and generally they have absolutely no problem doing that.

One of the things about the modern language I know a lot of Honor student, uhm, take languages and high school. And some of you have taken four years or three years or six years. Even Anna Foreign Language and what we offer our students is that you're able to take a placement exam to see if you placed out of a semester or two of the language and those hours will actually go towards this requirement. If you place out of something that won't necessarily show up.

On your thumb transcript, because you placed out of it and you didn't pay for it. Basically it wasn't a class that you you know paid for, but for our purposes in the Honors Program, we're going to go ahead and give you credit towards your honors global awareness requirement. And then once that's done once, I see your audit, you know, I do my audit and I see that you've completed that. I'll do a petition to show that that requirement for graduation has been met.

And so don't stress out about this, you know requirement it. It's very easily met. Uhm, once you get involved in once you get on campus and kind of figure out a you know how you can best meet that. Uhm, so then um, your first two years also. Besides the honors courses, you're taking the rest of your general education requirements, so you'll be taking general math. We don't take honors level math, you take general math.

An uhm, your math course will be based on what your major is, and so some students will required to take calculus. Some will not install based on your major, and so you'll be able to look at those advising guides as well to see kind of what math courses you'll be required to take. Um, and you have to take one skills math class in one applied, so for example, a skilled math class would be capped, won an applied math would be statistics. So if you were a business major or anything in the business, college accounting.

Economics business admin you know. Whatever it is you would take business calculus and then you would take um business statistics to meet that requirement. And so we's advisors know exactly what you need to take in order to meet those requirements. But there is 2 math classes that are required for graduation. Also on those guides you'll see there's a 3 hour visual creative and Performing Arts Corps.

That you can be creative in doing, um, where you can take a theater music beginning guitar. You can take a ceramics uhm?

Oh my gosh, art appreciation for those who don't have any artistic ability like myself, um, were music appreciation, so there's tons of options for that. Also, you have to take an oral communication course in order to graduate from the University. And that's just basic public speaking. And then our courses. Like I explained our question, courses to meet six hours of Social Science in order to graduate. But you actually need nine, and so some majors have that additional social science.

First noted on there. Now if you are a social science major such as, uh, you know psychology or sociology, even business econ is considered a social science and so a lot of times that social extra social science course will be met by a prerequisite for your major and then you do. We do accept AP and dual credit class days. And if you're wanting to take a class over the summer, I have a lot of questions. You know, students who want to pick up one of these Gen Ed classes.

Over the summer and transfer them into from a Community College, you can absolutely do that. Um. Also, your AP credit like if you have AP Calc or AP statue, or if you even have, you know, maybe something that meets the visual creating performing arts, or if you have an extra social science or even speech coming in. Those will absolutely come in and meet those because they aren't necessarily cap related. They are the University requirements. And so that's my job in this as an advisor to make sure you know that what you're taking will meet.

Certain things, uhm. And so I always ask you know, once you're a student here and you're taking classes you want to take a class over the summer to meet one of those you would just communicate with Courtney RI to make sure that you're taking the appropriate class in order to transfer those into meet those requirements.

And then so I don't know even touch really on um your junior and senior year like that is, you know your major courses and so these you know the classes that I kind of talked about today are those first 2 year requirements. Those Gen Ed Lower Division classes that everyone wants to take. It's not necessarily the most exciting because everyone wants to get into their major. But In addition to some of those, if you look at those advising guides, you'll see.

Maybe some prerequisite courses that are directed towards our major that you have to complete before you're a junior to start your upper division classes and so you know myself, um and Courtney, you know, are very well versed in what requirements are and make sure that you are set to start your major classes your junior year.

And then we can take, you know, extra questions about any of that at the end. But I want to move forward. I know I talk kind of a lot. So um scholarships. So this grid. Basically I'd like I said every honor student does get a scholarship once you are admitted to the honors program, and the scholarship is based on your AC T or S80 an your high school GPA.

And, uh, in order to be considered for the honors program, uhm?

You know the minimum ECT requirement is 24 and you'll see the UM equivalent SAT scores 1160 and then at 3.0 is the minimum high school GPA that we look at, and so you'll see where you fall on this grid. If you haven't applied dead or if you were thinking about applying, this is kind of you know how to gauge what your scholarship would look like. Now this is for.

Hum a year scholarship. Uhm so you would divide that into two you know half of it for the fallen half of it for this spring uhm. And then underneath each one of those uh amount is a GPA and that is the GPA that you must maintain is a cumulative GPA that you must maintain in order to keep that scholarship for the four years that you're at the University.

And so.

And so your scholarship is for four years, as long as you maintain that maintenance GPA, we do review your scholarships after every semester, um after the first semester. Say you have to maintain a 3.25 after your first semester, but you only have a 3 point.

11 OK, so you didn't get your 3.25, just know that we do not do anything negative to your scholarship after your first semester, we give you basically your first year to get your GPA. C GPA up to where it needs to be because we know that that first year is a transition year an we want you to be successful. We want you to keep your scholarship and so, um, that's our way of kind of, you know, helping you do that, and hopefully.

You know, after that transition year your you know on the right track and able to move forward, uhm?

And so, um, your award letter should automatically have your scholarships posted on there. Um already an if they don't, if you're admitted to owners and they don't, you do.

Just let us know, um. Also, I just wanted to mention really quickly. If you've already applied to UIS in the Honors Program, a man we've admitted you based on your start, your your current as ATR SAT score or GPA and you look at this chart and you got Oh my gosh you know I retook it and I didn't send in my latest scores which would jump me up to the next level. You just email me. Um were doctor Quinn Chernin? Let us know to reevaluate your scholarship.

Um, that you've jumped up to the next next level because we want to make sure that we're giving you. You know, all that that that we can.

Up and then In addition to that entry, scholarship, or are, uhm.

Our scholarship, so I did just want to mention to um, I'm sure all of you have also received the Lincoln scholarship through um at the general admission. Um, an when you're admitted to honors then you get your owner scholarship. Just know that those are two separate scholarships. Um, they're basically based on the track that you're gonna go into. So if you chose to attend uas as a general freshman, then the Lincoln scholarship would be posted to your account.

An awarded to you if you choose to do the Honors. Track Your Honor Scholarship would take the place of your link installer ship. They are not. Uhm, they are not combined. Unfortunately when that be great, but they're not. It's kind of one or the other. Um, and but we do have a University, um, scholarships that are given out in there every single year. If you've missed it this year and you're coming to you IS next year, no worries, um.

The scholarship application for uas scholarships come out December 1st in their due February 15th. That application for all uas scholarships outside of like the other scholarship and we're talking about additional scholarships that are available and so we recommend students fill that out every single year up in hopes to get some additional funds. Now those can be tapped on also if you are a student who has.

What do you call it? The children to veterans scholarship or I don't know if they come?

They do the College of Illinois anymore, but if you happen to get a scholarship that covers full tuition, just know that our honor scholarship would cover any additional costs. So like our scholarship owners would go towards your housing if you happen to have a scholarship that covered your tuition. So our scholarship in honors is not just for two wishing if that makes sense.

And so come for the scholarship so you have your your Honor Scholarship, an one of the great things about the honors program is that we were Ward students who go above and beyond zan do really, really well in our program, which is a lot of students that majority of our students do really well and go above and beyond their maintenance GPA. So if we go back and we look at that chart and you have a scholarship that you had, um?

To maintain a 3.0 but your first semester, your cumulative GPA was at 3.25. Were able to give you additional $500 bumps up, and so, um.

So those are called in this little slide here. Continuing student scholarships, academic recognition. Those are those bumps and you can get two $500 bumps within the first two years just by going up to the next maintenance level. So if you needed to maintain a 3.0 and you got a 3.25 cumulative, that puts you in that $500. But if you have to maintain a 3.25 but you gotta 3.5, that gives you an eligibility for the 500.

DARPA, if you have to maintain a 3.5 but you gotta 3.8, that's how you get your $500 buns. Like I said, you can get two of those. And then after every academic year. So after the spring term. Uhm, when we look at in renew scholarships if we have these academic excellence scholarships that we can give students who have a 3.8 three point 9 or 4.0 um. Of course that aren't necessarily on a full ride scholarship that have.

Room to get some more money and those are kind of, uhm a 3.8 gets you a certain amount of money. 3.9 get you a certain amount of money in 4.0 get just certain amount of money and those are non renewable. But um, if you continually maintain at that high level will continually give you that extra money um, and so that's why it says non renewable there but your bumps will stay with you. So if you get a bump after your first semester and 2nd semester

That will absolutely that extra $1000, then 5 two $500 bumps. That extra $1000 will stay with you, your sophomore, junior and senior year. As long as you maintain your original GPA requirement. So that's pretty awesome and we see a lot of students you know do that right away, so that's exciting. Also, the honors program has a cap study abroad scholarship that were able to help with the expenses of studying abroad, and I highly recommend studying abroad. Uas has tons of options for studying abroad.

Uhm, it's an amazing opportunity, and so that's something that you can apply for through the honors program to help with those expenses. And then again we have the University donor scholarships out there as well. That can be also awarded to our students, so that's kind of about the scholarships. I know it's a very brief talk about them and if you are a student who is coming in the fall you will get a very detailed explanation of.

The scholarships, the renewal process, all of that during summer. Orientation anfal um welcome week. So I know it's kind of, you know, maybe kind of confusing but we just kind of wanted to give you an outline of what is available and how you can increase those scholarships. Once you're a student in the honors program in performing well so the next slide here is about our admission process. Those of you who have not applied jacks or have applied but haven't heard from.

Honors Uhm?

In order to be considered for honors, you first have to apply to the University itself with the general application and then um, from my understanding it's about 8 to 10 days later you'll get like an email that allows you to go back into the system into the application portal in order to be considered for honors. Like I said, You have to have a minimum a city of a 24 or equivalent SAT score of 1160 and a high school GPA.

At 3.0 cumulative high school GPA 3.0 and you must also submit a personal statement. Uhm, the University itself does not require a personal statement for admission. But, um, we find it very important in the honors program to have something that you have written. Because of course, it is a highly writing intensive program and we want to know about you. And this is our way to hear more about you other than just looking at your scores in your.

You know classes and what you got in your classes, and so we really get an inside look at our students come and it's you know, it's it's a really great thing and I know doctor clean shirt reads them rigs each and everyone of them said so please don't feel like you're wasting your time doing that because he takes a lot of you know steak in those and and um and really really wants to get to know our student. And So what you would need to do is you would then have to go back in after that 8 to 10 days and Re Enter your application portal and then submit your personal statement to the check.

Checklist and then, once you meet our our qualifications, you've been admitted to the University. You have your personal statement in the system, then your application materials will automatically come over to honors for review, and so you don't have to do anything else. As long as you do all that, um, you will be, um, at least considered for the Honors Program. Now, if you are admitted, or like I like to say, we extend an offer or an invitation for you to participate.

In the honors program, because you do have an option of course at that point, if you're admitted to the program, you can either choose to come to you. I ask as you know a general freshman, or you can you know choose to come as an honor student. So, um.

So anyway, so in order to, uh, accept the offer admission, you have to 1st go in and sign your intent to enroll form and then you can choose to participate than in the Honors Program, or take the offer of admission to the honors program and then will change that in the system for you.

So uhm, OK, let's go one more here. Just important information, especially for those who have already committed to coming in the fall. We congratulate you and work cited for that. And so we just wanted to give you some important information. Um, to look forward too. So if you have a pen and paper, I want to drop this.

Found that the Gray or if you want to send an email to us and we can, you know, give you this information. But if you've already applied for rooming assignments, they should be going out sometime early July. Move in is set for Wednesday, August 19th. Unless you were an athlete who are starting a sport. Uhm, and it's a fall sport, you would move in early, but the majority of our freshmen won't move in on August 19th and then that starts launch week where you will get tons of information.

Uh, we will have a lot of great, um social activities during that time as well, but that starts Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and those are mandatory events. And so if you have a job or something you want to make sure that that you're available during those days because there's a lot of mandatory events and things happening. You'll have your first class of 102 during that time, and they'll be like some sort of project that it will have to do so. And then first day of classes start on Monday, August 24th.

So, uhm.

So that's that.

A man I'm going to leave that up there so you can uhm.

Add write that down if you'd like, and so I'm gonna open it up now that was my last flight. I don't know how I did on time. How did I do in time, oh.

We've got about four minutes, Karen.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh, see I couldn't even go fast.

OK.

But that's OK, so I've been typing like a Fiend with all these fantastic questions. But I've got two. I was wondering if you can very quickly describe what the full ride represents. Again, what all is paid?

Absolutely. So in order to be considered a full ride, you have to have at least a 32 AC T or equivalent Ashley to score up, and then you have to have a cumulative uas GPA. High school GPA of 3.5 to be considered a full ride. So if you're offered a full ride scholarship, congratulations on that. You should be super proud of yourself. That's amazing. Are full ride scholarship covers up to 16 credit hours a semester.

Um, it covers your housing. It covers, uhm, well room and board so it covers your housing in your meal plan. Um, an any fees associated with tuition and all that. So really everything is covered except for like a $2 student to student grant fee and your books. We've tried to get books covered and we just can't do it and so unfortunately it does cover everything but books.

And so we say it's a 16 hour um limit on that. But if by chance alot of majors, uhm, you know, depending on three and four hour classes and things, sometimes it works out where you have to take 17 or 18 hours a semester, uhm?

And that's no problem, as long as you're maintaining and keeping your full ride. You do have to maintain a cumulative uas GPA by 3.8 to keeper full ride for all four years. And if you happen to go over the 16 hours, all we do is we just ask that you email doctor clincher and let him know that you're taking a couple extra hours or that you're taking an online class that has an online fee, which we wouldn't normally cover, but we will if you let us know we'll be able to do that.

Also, um, it does cover the, UM, the lowest.

Residential um dorm meal plan. A residence home meal plan which I I don't know if it'll change for next year, but uhm it was like 1100 and $50 a semester and so if you wanted to go up and pay, you know the $1500 or wanted to do the $1500 meal plan then you would have to cover that additional or that you know, uhm?

That

What do you call that, um, the amount?

That's not covered.

Does that answer the question?

I think you got it.

OK.

I've got one more. I don't know if we're going to get cut off here. It's almost 7:00 o'clock, but I believe it was Emily that was asking before. If you could say something about the political science major, what you know about it?

Oh my gosh, yes, absolutely, uhm. The political science major is one of our most popular majors. Of course you know we are, you know, the state capital. So internships and those experiences are amazing. Um, our faculty are great in the political science program. Also, it is super easy to like double major.

In political science and maybe legal studies, those two majors are very closely connected. an A lot of classes overlap with each other, and so a lot of students will either major in political science and minor in criminal justice. I mean in legal studies.

Political science in criminal justice. A lot of students do that. Um, some students, um, um. They become some. We have this page program. I think that stole actually happening, I believe, um, within the UM.

The state, uhm? What do you call it?

Legislator

Yes.

Yes, the courthouse there the not courthouse. But what is that the capital? No yes.

So there's a lot of opportunities for that, and a lot of the political science classes also overlap with our global awareness requirement, and so you're kind of killing two birds with one stone. But I'm highly recommended. Students are very successful in that program, and like I said, it's very easy to double major or even major and minor, and that as well. Yes, and it please look at the advising guides online.

Um, if you can again go to the agency index. Capital Star Wars honors program curriculum and then advising guides and then feel free to peruse all of those.

So Karen, I'm going to jump in here, so Parker had a question regarding the senior project.

It it is as Karen said kind of like a mini thesis, but you work, you work on your project over the course of an entire semester unless you are pressed for time and you take it all, and you do it all during your final spring term, but it's the faculty who work with you during the process are very good at it. They kind of walk you through the process in chunks.

And we we have students who end up doing their honors thesis In addition to a thesis in political science or a thesis in psychology at the same time. So yes, it is a. It is a time commitment. But at the same time it's an honors thesis and it does take a bit of time. And it does take some research and investment, but we have a lot of students. Again, who do two of them at the exact same time and are very very successful at it so.

Um, and by the time you've been here for three years, you'll be ready to go and know exactly what you want to do, and you'll just be Gung Ho and just going at it. So I wouldn't worry too much about it at this point.

Yeah, I I kinda don't even like mentioning it because.

Didn't seem overwhelming at this point. When you're just thinking about whether you want to go to, you know school or not, and like here we are talking about your senior year. But by the time you get There you are going to be able to write so well in the teachers are right there by your side and public speaking will be like nothing at that point, Lake. It's it's really a great process and it would help you, especially if you're wanting to go on to Graduate School. Uhm, you know. Or something like that, so don't.

Don't worry about it.

So.

I.

Any other questions? I wish they could talk to me.

I see one last question from Errol. I think I'm hoping I'm passing that correctly. He asks will kick start beyond line this year. Do the Coco VAT 19 pandemic.

Yes, I believe Kickstart is. Uhm, is were absolutely planning to have um, from my understanding and Catherine, I don't know if you want to write something and stop me, but um, that it there will be up on line. It's almost like, um, um, like a conference or something on line. There's like you have to go through like certain segment where you learn about like for pie. And uhm, you know.

Meal plans and, um, you'll meet with advising will do you're advising according I will do your advice seen over the phone probably, or zoom up and you'll. You'll get all of the information during kickstart. Uhm, but it will be. We won't be able to have you on campus. It will be like a remote process, and I know that there's a team of people working on getting that together. Um, and so, um.

So unfortunately I don't believe will be able to do our normal on campus, um orientation, but you know, the hope is that, UM, yes it will be, you know, giving you all the information you need to be successful in ready to start in the fall.

Uh so Maggie, Uh.

Good.

I just saw that yes, you will be registering for classes you will, uhm, I believe what the process is going to be. Um is, unless you're an athlete. I don't know if you're an athlete, but um, um, you will, um, go through so much of the orientation on line. The course is the pieces, and once you hit a certain amount that you've completed, I think that the advising will open up. And then our says Advisors will get some kind of confirmation that you've completed so much of.

With the orientation and that you are eligible to then register for classes and then so you'll work with Courtney or myself and we will of course get get you registered. I will be sending out information. Um, um.

Actually.

No Nicole hangar will not be working with her 'cause she is. If she's an honor student, she'll still be working with me, um, and so she would have gotten an email from Nicole Hager. Uhm, that talks about four honor student. Here's the process is going to happen in the process. Is working with Courtney and I for advising we have your practice schedules and we work around all that and we do end up letting Nicole Hager no what your schedule will be. Uh, but Courtney and I actually will be starting to work with.

Athletes, um for advising. Our plan was to do it like this week or last week, but um, hopefully maybe next week, will be able to start doing that. A man for every student. We will be contacting you about placement testing. Please submit math placement testing if you're needing to do math. Placement testing will be contacting you and letting you know that you need to do that and that you'll be able to do that remotely as well, and so will give you all the information for that as well. So Maggie, please lookout for you know.

Courtney, I you know to be you know, connecting with you soon.

Oh, you're very welcome. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I hope that it was helpful and we will go into more detail. You know, uhm, at some point, but I'm you know, this was just a brief overview of some of the Honors Program, and I hope I didn't leave anything out. And you all, probably, you know, my contact information is on the website. I don't know if cat catherines sent that out, or if it's part of this invitation.

But if you have any questions about AP credits coming in or or need some clarification on anything, please do not hesitate to contact myself or doctor kling. Sure Dan were absolutely here to help you and answer any questions.

And we're excited. Thank you so much for you know, taking the time to listen to us and and find out about this. This unique opportunities. Though I can't thank you enough and please everyone. Stay well, stay healthy and we will hopefully see you soon.

By everybody.

Bye, thank you.

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