The Honors College Suites in Hardesty Hall contribute greatly to the Honors College experience, by providing a home for incoming Honors College freshman students that is physically connected to the Honors College suite of offices, and whose student life activities reflect the mission of the Honors College.
Honors Suites, which occupy two floors of Hardesty Hall reserved for Honors College students, create a space for students who value the intellectual life to gather together to discuss their honors seminar readings with other honors students. Such late-night conversations often forge deep and lasting friendships, as students try to figure out what they think is true, good, and beautiful. Honors Suites helps to build a community of learners around the honors core seminar experience, as students bring their different life experiences and perspectives to the interpretation of a shared text, thereby helping one another to have the text come alive to them in different ways. Most of the learning we do is outside of the classroom and in community, so the Honors Suites allows our students to learn more deeply as they forge connections with one another.
The Honors Suites also serve to further deepen students’ meaningful relationships with their faculty mentors. A variety of programs hosted by the Honors College bring professors and students together outside of the classroom: invited faculty lectures; informal dinner conversations; local outings; readings groups, and more.
For more information about the Honors Suites in Hardesty Hall, email honors@utulsa.edu.