Information for Faculty

• Students select a mentor in their second year of the Honors program based on shared interests or connections. Any faculty or program specialist-level staff member can be a mentor. 
• Once students submit their mentor information, you will receive an automated email from CALS Honors, to verify the commitment and reiterate the requirements below:
  • Meet with the Honors student to discuss
    • How the student is progressing in his/her classes 
    • Student’s thoughts about her/his career path 
    • How college is going overall for students 
    • Support and guide them in choosing courses, creating Honors contracts, or selecting a location to study abroad or complete an applied project  

For students that want to complete a Research Project, you will serve as the supervisor. Faculty will need to have a research program that the student can work on and develop an independent project either as part of ALS 498 and ALS 499 or as part of a non-credit bearing practicum.

• ALS 398H is traditionally the first course that students take in their CALS Honors program. As part of their introduction, we provide a small group project as part of this SPRING course. During this semester-long experience, small groups of students will work with professors to complete a project based learning activity (PBL); this could be a research project, a literature review, a curriculum review, a pilot project…anything that would give students the opportunity to learn about research. Students will then showcase their knowledge and skills by writing a paper formatted for a scholarly outlet– eg. academic journal or academic trade publication–  and creating a public poster and presentation to disseminate their work at the University Undergraduate Research Symposium.