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The Honors Programming Endowed Fund supports the initiatives that make Honors at Salem State unique and integral to the experience of our students, ensuring that your experience is the experience of today's students and tomorrow's. Your support of the Commonwealth Honors Program at Salem State University provides resources for thesis research grants, honors class field trips, and the incoming honors student retreat at Camp Burgess. The Honors Programming Endowed Fund will ensure the continuation of these valuable enrichment opportunities for our students in perpetuity.
While the overall need to fully endow the current needs of Honors programming is $250,000, we hope to secure $50,000 by June 30. You can help with your gift today!
The Honors Program at Salem State University meets the needs of students seeking a curriculum that is unusually rich and challenging. Students fulfill the university's core requirements in writing, literature, history, and speech through designated Honors Program courses. These are courses that stand out not because they are more difficult and time-consuming, but rather because they are stimulating and challenging. Additional honors-level courses are offered in biology, English, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, nursing, geology, and business. In honors courses, a premium is placed on interaction and discussion, with the expectation that students will learn from one another as well as from their faculty. Junior and senior participants take part in honors seminars, and all complete a senior honors project.
Honors Program students at Salem State are representative of nearly every major. Although selected for their academic achievement, the 250 current members of the program display leadership on campus as well. Honors Program students have served as officers of student government, editor of the student newspaper, manager of the radio station, and as officers in most campus student organizations. They are heavily represented among varsity teams, and in choral groups, theatre productions, and service activities. Salem State Honors Program students annually participate in the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Conference as well as regional and national conferences.
Percentage of honor program students presented with an honors scholarship.