Thank you for your willingness to serve as a Departmental Honors Advisor (DHA). DHAs are an essential link between a student's home department and Honors. In general, serving as DHA is not terribly time consuming. Here are the expectations:

• Meet with all students in your major who are interested in or currently pursuing Departmental Honors
• Be familiar with the Departmental Honors Plan of Study in your department (and suggest revisions if necessary)
• Be familiar with how Honors works and how a student receives an Honors degree
• Recruit upper-division students from your major to Honors. Suggestions include:
  • Put a flyer in faculty mail boxes explaining how Honors works at the beginning of each semester
  • Hold a meeting (pizza party?) for upper-division students with a GPA of 3.3 (3.5 in the major) or higher and invite the Honors Director
  • Attend the honor society meeting in your discipline and talk to the students about Honors (or invite Honors to do so)
  • Announce in your own classes and in faculty meetings that strong students may want to consider Honors and that they should talk to you to do so
  • Remind faculty of the benefit of working with Honors students
• Sit on each graduating senior's Honors thesis committee and be the Honors representative on that committee
• Serve as liaison between Honors and your department
• Ensure that Honors gets a copy of all Departmental Honors Plans from students in your department
• Set up a time to meet with the second-semester freshmen in HONR 2100 in your major. (It is often easiest to do this all at once, and hold a general meeting with individual advising, if necessary, at a later time.)

Click Here to read more in depth about Departmental Honors and your department's plan of study.

Click Here to read a more general overview of the Honors Program.