Honor students embrace learning

by Jenna-Leigh Tracy
Scroll Staff

The few, the proud, the honored.

Not many people know about the students at BYU-Idaho that are honored. Not through the United States Marine Corps but through the honors program offered at BYU-I.

The program is “designed to stretch those who want to be stretched,” Rick Davis, honors program director, said.

The program’s goal is to provide classes that will allow students to interact with their peers and instructors on a deeper level.

“My honors sociology class was a little more in depth than the others, but it offered more discussion, and Brother Stokes was an awesome teacher,” Colton Miller, a freshman from Shelley, Idaho,, said.

“It’s all about the discussion in an honors class,” Davis said.

The honors program allows students who have at least a 3.5 GPA and 14 credit hours to participate.

Students in the program embrace learning and find a common link with those who take honors courses.

During these courses, peers exchange questions and ideas, Davis said.

In an honors class, the class size is smaller to allow for classroom discussion.

In addition to the personal rewards, students who graduate in the honors program will be named in the graduation program, have an honors seal applied to their diploma, have the honors program noted on their transcripts and be permitted to wear and keep a distinctive honors medallion at graduation.

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