It's cold but there are flowers!

Rolling along in 2025. We saw this daffodil at the back of campus, cross the bridge and walk up the Packard trail. Welcome new students who have just enrolled in an honors course for the first time. Our Honors Connection student club will be active on this quarter. We hope you can join Dina, Hyejn and the team for fun events.

Come check out the Honors Student Lounge too.

Here are some important Honors things coming up.

1. UCLA TAP Certification workshops are continuing, check out the website.
2. Bay Area Honors Symposium at Berkeley talk to Honors Institute before submitting an abstract.
3. New Honors Student orientation meeting. 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. (Photo below of lounge where students can hang out)

Honors Connection Club

In person 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

Above is a photo of Dina and friends at Club Day -- come to the meetings this quarter!

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 mandatory 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.

JUST TWO LEFT!!!

1. January 27th/ 5:00-6:00pm Virtual - Tracee's Zoom Link
2. 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's Open 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.

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 to the Honors Offices on Monday or Thursday 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

The Honors 1944 Lounge is open for you! We will have Honors Mentors starting to help students by week 5. Keep an eye out and come visit the back door of admin, across from the Welcome Center (this is a soft opening with limited hours)