IUPUI Honors Program

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IUPUI Honors Program
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Honors Student Profiles

• Enrollment
• 162 students currently enrolled on scholarship
• Additional 173 participants in the program
• Fall 2007 Entering Scholarship Class Profile
• 26.05 of enrollment for AY07-08 up from 19.79
  previous year

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Challenges and Opportunities

• Challenges to underrepresented freshmen
  recruitment
• In Indiana of 4,380 senior SAT test takers in
  June 2007 statewide, 123 (2.8) underrepresented
  students qualified for honors.
• In Indiana and select metropolitan areas in NY,
  NJ, MI, KY, OH, IL, MO of 18,713 students from
  1,504 (8.04) underrepresented students
  qualified.
• These are highly sought after students nationwide
  who routinely receive full ride scholarships from
  in and out of state schools competition is
  fierce.
• Opportunities
• Continue work with Admissions Center as well as
  UCOL and other units involved in outreach to
  underrepresented populations.
• Coordinate recruitment of outstanding IUPUI
  undergraduates using increased funding made
  available for Continuing Student Scholarships.
• Builds upper class cohort who can assist and
  advise with freshman recruitment
• Students can serve as mentors to freshmen from
  diverse backgrounds

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Promoting Diversity Through Academics

• New course work
• Global Dialogues
• International Service Learning Course

• New ways of earning honors credit
• Area Studies
• Substantive Foreign Language
• Study Abroad

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Promoting Diversity Through Engagement

• AES assistants
• Special Olympics
• Charter School Coaching
• Cripus Attucks Medical Magnet Middle School
• Spanish translation services at area hospitals

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Promoting Diversity through Association

• Honors House
• Scholarship programming
• Honors Club
• Alpha Sigma Lambda
• Freshmen Honorary Societies

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Honor Societies

• Alpha Lambda Delta Phi Eta Sigma
• Freshman recognition for outstanding academic
  achievement
• National Scholarship and Award winners each of
  the past 5 years
• National leadership workshops and conventions
• Focus on service