Involvement | Honors College

Student Organizations

The success of the Honors College goes beyond having specialized Honors courses to take. It is a community that relies on fostering and strengthening ties by positioning its students to lead. This is especially true for the student organizations housed within the Honors College. The Honors College is home to three student organizations: Honors Congress, Diversity in Honors, and Honors Serves.

Honors Congress

Honors Congress members are involved with community service projects, athletic events, intramural sports, and social events, such as movie nights, game nights, and a semi-formal. With a wide variety of
leadership opportunities, Congress is a great way to start your involvement with on-campus activities. To join the Honors Congress there is a one-time membership fee of $40. For more information about the Honors Congress, please email president Cameron Cohen.

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Diversity in Honors

Diversity in Honors (DIH) is dedicated to fostering a community that nurtures unity, promotes empathy, inspires learning, and drives positive change. DIH hosts a variety of educational events, professional development workshops, and social events. The organization encourages its members, including freshmen, to run for leadership positions. For more information on DIH, contact president Hannah Butterfield.

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Honor Serves

Honors Serves offers a great opportunity for you to become involved in service within the community. This organization is student-led and focuses on service through education. Honors Serves offers numerous ways to volunteer, including serving at the Food Bank of East Alabama, offering companionship to patients with Compassus Hospice, tutoring Auburn High School students for the ACT, working at the Lee County Humane Society, partnering with PERIOD Auburn to eradicate period poverty, and showing thanks to our own campus with Here at Home. For more information, contact president Chloe Moore or visit their AUInvolve page.

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LEAD Honors Peer Mentorship Program

The Honors Peer Mentorship Program is a lifeline for incoming Honors College freshmen to help ease the transition into the Honors College and university life by grouping new students with experienced upperclassmen. New students have a contact from the first day they arrive on campus to help them navigate this new step in their lives. Mentors are paired with a small group of first year students with whom they interact throughout the summer and fall semester.

Goals

Honors College applications are reviewed individually and separately from the Auburn admissions application. Both objective information such as high school GPA and standardized test scores, and subjective information from the Auburn Honors College application (e.g. essay and other supplemental information) are included in the review.

LEARN

Students will learn about resources critical to their success through the guidance of an experienced upperclassman student.

ENGAGE

Students will engage in meaningful and authentic partnerships with other Honors students and the Honors College Staff.

ACHIEVE

Students will achieve success through a consistent support during their transition to Auburn and the Honors College.

DISCOVER

Students will discover more about their personal journey through intentional processsing of their college experience.

Mentees

Benefits
- Learn from the experiences of others.
- Increase your social and academic confidence.
- Become more empowered to make decisions.
- Develop strategies for dealing with both personal and academic issues.
- Identify goals and establish a sense of direction.
Responsibilities & Expectations
- Reach out to your mentor; let them know what is on your mind.
- Assume responsibility for your own growth & development.
- Set goals and make decisions to achieve these goals.
- Utilize campus resources.
- Participate in activities with mentor and other mentees.

Mentors

Benefits
- Gain a fulfilling experience – Through peer mentoring, your volunteerism makes a difference in the lives of new students who may feel lost, isolated, and stressed with the challenges of being a college student. Doing good deeds makes people feel good. The chance to make a positive impact on someone’s life is a priceless experience.
- Boost leadership skills – You will encounter new and different situations as a peer mentor that will enhance and improve your leadership skills and abilities. Your capacity to be compassionate, make sound decisions, and listen will increase through your mentor/mentee relationship.
- Improve career profile – Leadership, time management, and many other management skills can be enhanced by becoming a peer mentor. Your role as a peer mentor adds valuable experience to your resume, demonstrating your adaptability, resourcefulness, and passion for helping others.
- Meet new people – It’s not just new students building friendships in the peer mentoring program. Peer mentors befriend their mentees and other mentors and mentees. You can meet your peers in events and volunteer activities surrounding the peer mentoring program. Peer mentoring isn’t just a school activity; it’s a place where students connect and become life-long friends.
- Receive 1 hour of participation credit through the Honors Mentor Lyceum – offered during the Fall of your term.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with mentees and assist them with their adjustment to campus life both socially and academically.
- Coordinate social activities and opportunities for mentees.
- All mentors will be expected to uphold the Auburn Creed and maintain good academic standing within the Auburn Honors College.
Time Commitment
- Attend all trainings and large group events (kick-off, celebration, reunion)
- Weekly communication (call/text) with mentees weekly through Nov. 1 (min. 10 minutes)
- Monthly meet ups with mentee group
- Bi-weekly team meetings with all mentors (1 hour credit class)
- Complete program evaluation at the end of Fall.