Welcome Back to SeminarSPRING 2016

Information!!!New Things for Spring 2016 Welcome to HLG 147 where we can turn the volume up,

dance, play music and generally be ourselves. We are still hosting over 1,000 Honors students. Yay you

guys! New technology – a new security camera has been

mounted in the kitchen and is being monitored by the University Police Department. Hopefully, the theft will stop.

Ryan Winters was successful at getting a grant to make a smart classroom in the library/classroom in the quiet lounge. It should be done by the end of the Spring semester.

Seminar Book Spring 2016

Chaim Potok, The Promise ****BIG CHANGE: Seminar Essay Questions posted on

Website in two weeks. Essays due by 5:00pm

Thursday, April 14th at 5:00pm

Scholarships and Applications

Scholarship Applications for Spring 2016 are available on the website or at window on the second floor of Honors Building Download, fill it out and turn in with transcript – transcript

can come from U-link. Scholarship Deadline, Monday, February 29th at 4:00 pm in

the Honors Office.

LCHC at Grambling University What? Louisiana Collegiate Honors Conference –statewide

– Free trip! Food, fun, presentations, posters, meet Honors students from other schools, talk about grad school programs – support our Quiz Bowl Team! Keep the trophy!

Where? – Grambling University When? – February 26th and 27th (Friday and Saturday) Leave Friday at 1:00 on charter bus – return Saturday

evening. Everything paid for by Honors. Sign up at the window on the second floor of Judice-

Rickels – Deadline to sign up is February 5th - Dr. F can write excuse letters if you need them for a Friday

class.

New Website Links

PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO VISIT THE HONORS WEBSITE DURING THE SEMESTER

Keep Up to Date with Honors Events and News Download information, contracts, applications Access SOC and other programs such as the ULHonors

YouTube channel.

ReminderWhat is Seminar? A time When Honors Students get information from the

University, the Honors Program, and each other. A place where students meet each other and exchange

ideas. A place to practice speaking in public. A place to learn outside the classroom. A place to let your ideas run free. Come next week with your seminar idea so we can

vote!

Rules for Seminar

Please sign in – name and clid Please be courteous

This is not a time to do homework. Turn your cell phones and computers off and put them away. Try not to talk while others are speaking. Please be on time. Please raise a hand to speak. Please be courteous to your Graduate Assistant and Honors

Board Members.

Thanks!

Glad you came – bring back new and interesting ideas!