2025
Institutional
Membership
Host Institution
Miles College
Mission Statement: Miles College is a senior, private, liberal arts Historically Black College with roots in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Through dedicated faculty and staff, the College cultivates students to seek knowledge that leads to intellectual and civic empowerment. Students are transformed through rigorous study, scholarly inquiry, and spiritual awareness, thereby enabling graduates to become responsible citizens who help shape the global society.
Previous Year Host Institution
Prairie View A&M University
The Honors Program at Prairie View A&M University is designed to provide a variety of scholarly activities and advanced courses for outstanding undergraduate students who value and seek rigorous academic challenges. The Honors Program continues to build on its established legacy and profound history of academic excellence, creating a scholarly atmosphere for current and future students. To achieve this goal, each honors course stimulates intellectual exchange through small seminar-style classes. Interaction with faculty and peers offers the ability to refine the skills of clear expression, acute analysis, critical thinking, and imaginative problem-solving. Students selected as participants are provided a framework for global leadership, including a foreign language class of Chinese or Spanish.
It is an exciting time to be a part of such a creative and diverse learning environment. This program will persist in promoting innovation and creativity in every student, and we look forward to the continued success of preparing scholars for a global impact.
Next Year’s Host Institution
Fisk University
The W.E.B. Du Bois General University Honors Program, designed for students who have demonstrated academic capability, fosters excellence in scholarship throughout the student’s college career by encouraging and promoting honors studies and activities in the total life of the University.
The program gives concrete expression to the conviction that academic excellence is the hallmark of the institution’s educational enterprise.
Simmons College of Kentucky
Established in 2022, the Elijah P. Marrs Honors College at Simmons College of Kentucky serves as a beacon of academic excellence and achievement. Dedicated to recognizing and nurturing the intellectual and leadership potential of our scholars, the Honors College plays a vital role in advancing the academic mission of the institution.
Under the leadership of Dr. Leroy T Smith III, the Elijah P. Marrs Honors College is committed to inspiring and guiding the next generation of scholars and leaders.
Tennessee State University
The University Honors College (UHC) provides an especially rich and challenging set of academic offerings to talented and highly motivated students at Tennessee State University. Through special courses, a vigorous intellectual community, and emphasis on undergraduate research, the Honors college enables students to reach heights of excellence!