Host Institution - 2025

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.

Dr. Emmanual Chekwa
Ms. Angela Williams

Host Institution - 2020, 2026

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. 

Benedict College’s Honors Program is committed to cultivating a brighter future for our campus and the local community. With a focus on addressing twenty-first-century economic and racial injustices, we empower our students to become agents of change in a global society.

Our mission is to enhance the intellectual, cultural, and career opportunities for our critically inquisitive students, providing them with the tools they need to thrive. Join us in cultivating a generation of leaders who are ready to make a lasting impact!

Shaneen Dials-Corujo

Host Institution - 2004

The Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College (RCNHC) provides an opportunity for students to develop, sharpen, enhance, stretch and shine. Through exciting academic and social activities and events, students’ collegiate experience is maximized to support optimal development. We offer enhanced academic classes, co-curricular enrichment activities and special programs for high-ability students across all majors.

Honors in the RCN Honors College is more than grades—it is character, integrity, behavior, and attributes. Honors at NSU provides high-ability students supports and advocacy to shine in the midst of our complex global world!

The RCN Honors College emphasizes five core areas:

Academic Excellence

Professional Preparation

Personal Growth & Development

Social Interactions

Community Service

Mrs. Mia R. Smith, General Administration Coordinator

Host Institution - 1992, 2024

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.

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.

Founded in 1980, the Spelman College Honors Program, named for scholar-teacher Ethel Waddell Githii, is interdisciplinary in design recognizing the diversity of our faculty expertise and student creative scholarship. The Githii Honors Program creates original programming and targeted supports for our member students, and collaborates with academic departments and programs to provide a rich array of scholarly and creative venues. These include our annual reading and lecture series, special programs and workshops for the broader campus and the Atlanta community, and cultural engagements on and beyond the campus. The program spotlights intellectual leadership as a habit of mind and a quality of the ethical citizen.

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Cynthia Cooke, Program Coordinator

Host Institution - 2001-02, 2008, 2015-16

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!

The David C. Frederick Honors College provides increased opportunity, incentives, and recognition for high academic attainment by students.

In 1986, the University of Pittsburgh established an honors college to meet the special academic and co-curricular needs of students who sought to elevate their undergraduate experiences. Now, as the David C. Frederick Honors College, our students on both the Pittsburgh and Greensburg campuses have additional opportunities, incentives, and recognition for high academic attainment, and they use their time and talents to give back as global citizens and leaders.

Contact: ContactCathy Conley