Events and Opportunities
Events | Opportunities | Scrapbook
Recent & Upcoming Honors Program Events:
Plan Ahead Dates - Be Organized - Mark Your Calendar Early!
- Fall 2008 Honors Weekend Trip - September 5-7. Click here for more information and a tentative itinerary.
- National Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting - October 22-26, 2008, San Antonio, TX. You must apply and interview to be selected for attendance at this conference. Information on the selection process will be emailed to you in the late summer. Freshmen are encouraged to apply.
North Carolina Honors Association Annual Meeting - September 19-20, 2008. Meredith will host the conference this year, so we will need lots of volunteers!
Photo: Honors Freshman Birdhouse Blitz Two days after moving into their new homes on campus, Meredith College’s newest Honors students participated in a service project that will help generate new homes for others.
Meredith’s freshmen Honors students teamed up with Meredith’s Habitat for Humanity chapter for a “Birdhouse Blitz,” in which they built 34 birdhouses in one night. The birdhouses were sold for $25 each, with the funds raised benefiting Habitat for Humanity. A picnic supper and bluegrass music by our own faculty band rounded out the event. Click here to view a slideshow.
Archived Honors Activity Schedules, 2006-2007
- Itinerary for 2006-07 Fall Honors Trip
Pictures from the trip are available in the Scrapbook
- Schedule for the 2006-07 Focus on Excellence (FOE) Series
- Presidential Scholars Traveling to the American Southwest, January 2-8, 2007
The Institutes at Georgetown University: Live. Learn. Intern. The dynamic Institutes at Georgetown University combine rigorous courses for academic credit with competitive internships, leadership development activities, site briefings and lectures led by prominent policy experts. Students live in furnished apartment located in Washington, D.C., and are enrolled as full time students at Georgetown University. Past opportunities have included programs focusing on political journalism; business and government affairs; and philanthropy and voluntary service.
Honors students will be alerted to new opportunities, including those through the Institutes at Georgetown University, through the Honors Blackboard site, which serves as the Honors community bulletin board.
- Fall, 2007 Honors Trip to Charleston, SC
Wow! What an awesome trip! Click here for an itinerary
Send your pictures to Mattie so that we can post them!
- Graduation photos, December 2007 click here!
- Graduation photos, May 2007 click here!
- Presidential Scholars trip to the Great Southwest, Janaury, 2007
The Grand Canyon...Sedona...Petrified Forest...Painted Desert...Zuni Pueblo...El Morro National Monument...Acoma...Albuquerque...Sante Fe...Need we say more? Itinerary
- Black Mountain Honors Trip
We had a great time in Black Mountain! White water rafting with Dr. ODekirk...learning about the history of mountain music with Dr. Novak...the roots of North Carolina cuisine with Dr. Fountain...native and invasive plants with Dr. Swab...Carl Sandburg with Ms. Britt. Leslie Norman even made us proud with her winning entry in the 26th annual World Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle competition. Now that is an Honors trip!
- Presidential Scholars trip to London, January,
2006
Presidential Scholars started the year by boarding a flight to London, England on New Year's Day 2006. We enjoyed lots of London theater (Billy Elliot was a favorite!); toured Windsor Castle and the charming village of Windsor; Hampton Court Palace (favorite home of Henry VIII); the Tower of London; the British War Rooms; the Globe Theater; the Tate Millbank Museum; the British Museum; and Westminster Abbey. We capped our weeklong adventure with High Tea at the Ritz, and somehow still found time to enjoy a bit of the London nightlife. It was a whirlwind tour that left all with plenty of stories to share as we returned in time for the first week of class.
- Fall Honors Trip, 2005: "Williamsburg….Sisterhood
of the Traveling Minds"
Honors students and Teaching Fellows traveled to Williamsburg, Va., for a weekend of sisterhood, learning and lots of FUN! We dining in the historic Christina Campbell Tavern; studied "Newton on a Roller Coaster" at Busch Gardens with Meredith physics Professor Bill Schmidt; "Potions, Prescriptions and Insanity" with Dr. ODekirk of the psychology faculty; "Manners and Mores of Colonial Literature" with Drs. English and Taylor; and investigated "Jamestown CSI" with Heidi Fletcher and John Kincheloe. The brave of heart even toured Williamsburg in corsets and other traditional 17th and 18th century garb with Dr. Diane Ellis! We rounded out the trip with a James River cruise and a trip to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
- Class of 2005 Graduation Breakfast Photos -- These photos are posted on a commercial site so that you can order prints. The username is honors@meredith.edu. The password is the same as the one we have been using for honors photo accounts (hint: Remember our favorite bus driver in Annapolis?). If you need the PW, just email Dr. Edwards (edwardsc@meredith.edu).
- Hilton Head Trip, 2005
In February 2005, Honors students traveled to Hilton Head Island and coastal Georgia on a trip hosted by Dr. Maureen Hartford. They studied the history, people, and ecology of the "The Old and the New South".
- Annapolis Trip, 2004
Each year, the Honors Program sponsors a weekend trip for students and faculty. There are several mini-courses to choose from to focus the learning experience, and the trips allow for students among the different classes to get to know one another better.
- Graduation Breakfast 2004
Each year, the Honors program holds a breakfast for the graduating Honors seniors and their families before commencement.
- Celebrating Student Achievement 2004:
Undergraduate Research Conference at Meredith, 2004
Twenty Honors students presented the results of their research at the college's day-long focus on undergraduate academic achievement on April 22. Featured were Honors theses, summer undergraduate research projects, work done as Honors contracts, group presentations, and posters.
- Outer Banks Fall 2003
Each year, the Honors Program sponsors a weekend trip for students and faculty. There are several topics to choose from to focus the learning experience, and the trips allow for students among the different classes to get to know one another better.
- Focus on Excellence
Each year Honors students participate in Meredith's "Focus on Excellence" series. This array of cultural activities may include meals with the Meredith President or visiting speakers, off-campus trips to touring Broadway musicals or dance concerts, private tours of exhibits at the North Carolina Museums of Art or History, or jaunts to Washington D.C. or Colonial Williamsburg.
- Convocations
Distinguished guest speakers and performers have included Nobel laureate in Medicine Dr. Gertrude Elion (1990), poet Dana Gioia (1993), ethnobotanists Dr. Mark Plotkin (1995) and Dr. Wade Davis (1997), the Native American women's a cappella trio Ulali (1996), coastal ecologist Dr. Orrin Pilkey (1999), crusading African-American journalist Chuck Stone (2000), and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel (2003).
