Welcome back!

It is the first week of classes in the new year of Honors. Excellent to be here on campus. This is the sign right out our office window. Come visit!

We are ready to go in 2025. Here are some important Honors things coming up.

1. UCLA TAP Certification workshops - must do it if you applied. First meeting on Monday! (see below)
2. Bay Area Honors Symposium at Berkeley - info meeting!
3. Field Programs in Ecuador, Guatemala and Spain this summer. Apply now.
4. San Jose State and Yale Honors programs highlighted this week.
5. New Honors Student orientation meetings. Are you new and you were never oriented? Come Monday January 27th for New Students in the Fall and Winter at 12-1pm in the Honors Student Lounge Room 1944.

UCLA TAP Certification Workshops

If you applied to UCLA for Fall 2025 and are expecting to participate in the UCLA Transfer Alliance Program, the UCLA TAP Certification process begins soon. Students that need to be TAP certified MUST attend a TAP Certification Workshop where you will be walked through the complete certification process such as completing the worksheet, meeting with a counselor, and obtaining the signature of one of the co-directors.

1. January 13th/12-1:30pm In-person at the Honors Student Lounge (HSL) which is Room 1943 across from the Welcome Center. Can be certified in person.
2. January 16th/11:00-12:00pm Virtual
3. January 21st/ 12:00-1:00pm Virtual
4. January 22nd/ 12-1:30pm In-Person (Honors Student Lounge - rm 1943)
5. January 27th/ 5:00-6:00pm Virtual
6. February 3rd/12-1:30pm in person (Honors student lounge - rm 1943)

Go to this website before the meeting to get a jump start on the TAP Student Checklist

Tracee Has New Office Hours

Come hang out with Tracee in her office. Here are the weekly open hours for you to visit Tracee Cunningham.

Winter Quarter Drop-In Hours

Jan. 6 to March 27

MEET IN PERSON

Bldg 1900, Office 1961

Mondays 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Thursday 9:30–11 a.m.

MEET VIRTUALLY

VISIT HONORS ZOOM ROOM

Tuesdays 2–4 p.m.

Wednesday 12:30–1:30 p.m.

Honors Transfer Program

Take advantage of the transfer partnerships we have with various colleges ad universities. The Foothill College Honors Institute along with the Honors Transfer Council of California (HTTC) has transfer partnerships with colleges and universities across California and the United States. Students completing our Honors Scholar Program enjoy enhanced transfer consideration and/or other benefits at the partner campuses. These may include guaranteed or priority acceptance consideration, special scholarships, housing priority, and pre-transfer library privileges. 

If you have not yet done so, please join the Honors Transfer Program to ensure you qualify for the many transfer opportunities available to you as an Honors Scholar. For more information, please visit the website for our Honors Transfer Program.

Honors Connection Club

Meetings are upcoming! Group Service Projects are being organized so you can work together with a common purpose. If you have a great idea for the group to use please contact the club officers. Here is the discord link for upcoming events.

https://discord.gg/ZKQzPB8D

The Bay Area Honors Symposium - Want to Give a Presentation?

The Bay Honors Research Symposium on April 26th at Berkeley gives students the opportunity to participate in scholarly research in a variety of disciplines, with the goal of presenting their findings in a variety of formats. The Honors Institute will pay Reg Fees for anyone who wants to go! This is a cool thing you can put on your applications and use for your CV. It is amazing to be able to meet a community of like-minded scholars.

Consider submitting a presentation abstract.

The Honors Institute will have an information session about this symposium and how to take part as a presenter. Come on January 15th to the Honors Offices at NOON for 10 minutes to quickly learn more from honors co-director Sam Connell who can help. If you are interested, talk to any professor you have submitted a cool project to already that can be made into an easy presentation!

https://foothill.edu/honors/researchsymposium.html

Foothill Summer Programs abroad

Foothill Global Experiential Learning offers Foothill students and members of our community a variety of unique, faculty-led experiences like the ones below, including short-term and quarter-long programs, credit and not-for-credit (Community Education), locally and abroad. Scholarships and financial aid options are available!

Archaeology Program June 28 - July 18

Discover with us the beauty of Ecuador.

Join us this summer for an excellent archaeology and cultural experience with course work and field trips.

Live with us and other project members in the Andes.

Learn about all aspects of the research project, including archaeological survey and excavation and community development activities. Weblink

San Jose State Honors X

SJSU has this excellent program that all students should consider. Have a look. You join a cohort and are able to meet and work with leaders in the field. They are inclusive, grassroots, and hand-on. https://www.sjsu.edu/honorsx/index.php

They want students from the area who want to succeed in new fields of study. It is a minor that you do in conjunction with your major. It is an incredible opportunity, especially if you want to stay local.

There are many opportunities like this out there -- check out the Honors Transfer Council Webpage where they detail other programs in California that are really cool. We are lucky to be in this state. Seriously.

https://www.honorstransfercouncil.org/transfer-partners/csu-honors-programs/sjsu-honorsx

Check out the 3600 building and the WLC!!

Yale's Eli Whitney Students Program Virtual Admissions Information Session

You are invited to an upcoming virtual admissions information session for Yale's Eli Whitney Students Program, a unique in-person undergraduate program designed specifically for adult students who have been out of high school for five or more years.



Yale Eli Whitney Students Program

Virtual Admissions Information Session 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

5 pm PT/8 pm ET

Advanced Registration Required

Doing great at UCLA

We are tracking some student experiences at college this year after transfer. Kirsten sends her update:

Happy New Year! 🎊🍾 I wanted to update you on what I've been up to.

I wrapped up my fall classes at UCLA and finished the quarter off strong! I have also been continuing my research in the Thomas Carmichael lab, where I study ways to enhance the neural repair process after stroke using hydrogel biomaterials. Specifically, I study astrocytes and their critical role in modulating post-stroke repair, such as the formation of new neural connections and blood vessels. This upcoming winter quarter, I will be starting an EMT course!