For
Current Students
WHAT
IS THE HONORS VILLAGE?
The Honors Village is a living-learning environment located on East Campus.
The Village provides students with a small residential community experience
and offers many exciting programs, including a resident mentoring program
for
freshmen. Bagwell, Becton,
and Berry are the residence halls of the Honors Village. Located right
next door is a dining hall, computer lab, Thompson Theatre, a campus convenience
store, and Pullen Park. Additionally, the UHP office is located in Clark
Hall, one of several buildings in the Village. The UHP office offers a
student lounge and small library where students can find a quiet place
to study.
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WHAT
IS IN CLARK HALL?
The UHP offices, located on the second floor of Clark Hall, include a student
lounge, library/resource center, conference room, and a student workroom
that will be equipped with several computers. Clark Hall is also home to
a dining hall (ground floor), and the Co-operative Education Office (third
floor).
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WHAT
ARE THE ADVANTAGES TO LIVING IN THE HONORS VILLAGE?
Should you choose to live in the Honors Village, you will have a tremendous
opportunity to create traditions and programs that will make a lasting
impact on the Village and the Honors Program for many years to come. The
Student Honors Governing Board plans to hold many of their social and academic
events in the Quad. Most UHP workshops, meetings and programs will take
place in Clark Hall. Freshmen residents of the Honors Village will be partnered
with an upper class Honors student who will act as a guide, friend, and
resource to facilitate all aspects of your transition to university life.
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WHAT
IS A “LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITY”?
Like many concepts,
a Living, Learning Community is difficult to describe in just a few words,
but you can think of it as a community that is “organized along curricular
lines, common career interests, avocational interests, residential areas and
so on” (Astin 1985).1
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HOW
WOULD I BENEFIT BY BEING IN LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITY?
Astin (1985)1 notes
that students living in structured communities build group identity, cohesiveness,
and uniqueness. They also tend to work together to build diverse curricular
and co-curricular experiences. Finally, belonging in a close-knit group of
individuals with like goals and interests tends to help students to both reduce
stress and the sense of isolation that many feel by being on a large campus
for the first time and form long-lasting relationships.
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BUT
WILL LIVING IN THE HONORS VILLAGE REALLY HELP ME BE A BETTER STUDENT? A BETTER
PERSON?
The short answer is yes. Numerous studies show that students benefit from community
living both academically and personally in several ways:
- Achievement
and Retention: students tend to have higher grade point averages and want
to remain in school.
- Intellectual
Development: students tend to participate in activities that stimulate
active learning, whether informal coffee chats in a common room, debates
in the hallway, or scheduled lectures. More opportunities for intellectual
exchange result in more critical and creative thinking.
- Social Development:
Community participants tend to be more supportive of others’ successes
and failures. Self-esteem is higher among students, and they tend to actively
participate in life both inside and outside the classroom.
- Student Involvement:
Students’ sense of commitment to the community is reflected by a
more developed interest and participation in campus and area-wide community
activities.
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WHAT
WILL SET THE HONORS VILLAGE APART FROM OTHER LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES?
Not only will UHP students benefit from living and sharing experiences with
others with similar academic drives and program requirements, but they
will also work together to plan community events, sponsor faculty and visiting
scholar dinners and activities, and work with other campus communities
to create interesting and innovative programs and events.
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IF
I CHOOSE TO LIVE ELSEWHERE ON CAMPUS OR OFF CAMPUS ENTIRELY, WILL I BE EXCLUDED
FROM HONORS PROGRAM ACTIVITIES?
Absolutely not! You’ll be kept up to date on all activities through regular
communication from the UHP staff.
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WHAT
EXPECTATIONS WILL THE HONORS PROGRAM HAVE FOR VILLAGE RESIDENTS?
Village residents
are expected to accomplish a number of things:
- Create a unique
Village identity;
- Participate
in community, academic, and professional preparation workshops;
- Develop an
appreciation for the multicultural, multidisciplinary, artistic, and creative
group of individuals who make up this community;
- Become “Citizen
Leaders” who cultivate and act upon their sense of civic responsibility;
- Plan, organize,
and host Village events—both formal and informal—that will
bring together faculty, peers, and students from across campus; and
- Encourage social
and intellectual growth through participation in forums, lectures, Honors
seminars, study groups, and student government.
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FOR CURRENT STUDENTS
DO
I HAVE TO MOVE TO EAST CAMPUS/HONORS VILLAGE?
No, as a UHP student you are not required to live in the Honors Village.
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CAN
CURRENT HONORS STUDENTS MOVE INTO THE VILLAGE? IF SO, HOW?
Yes! Current UHP students are strongly encouraged to consider living in the
Honors Village if they plan to live on campus in 2004-05. Note that a limited
number of spaces are available. There are two ways to live in the Honors
Village:
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WHERE
ELSE COULD I LIVE?
You are free to choose either on-campus or off-campus housing.
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WILL
THE NEW HONORS COMMUNITY HAVE RAS?
Of course. The Resident Advisor is an essential part of the on-campus living
experience. The RAs assigned to the Honors Village will provide the same
great services that a RA typically does but will also have a working knowledge
of the UHP offerings.
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I
WANT TO BE AN HONORS RA IN THE HONORS VILLAGE. WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
You will be expected to participate in the Resident Advisor application process.
For more
information, go to http://www.ncsu.edu/housing/applications/residentadvisor.php.
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1 Astin, A. W. Achieving Educational Excellence. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1985.
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