$ullfills social. academic needs " ]Ionors education seroes students in el/ery major After only six years, the Honors Program has proven successful as graduates have begun careers in business or have been accepted into medical schools aRd graduate programs in religion, communication, law, physics and English. Honors alumni have gone to such prestigious universities as Georgetown, Chicago, Penn State and Duke. In 1994, the Honors Program expanded to a three-tier approach. The first tier, the Honors Scholastic Program, serves 40 of Harding's top students, recruited from the National Merit Finalists and Trustee Scholars in the freshman class. The classes involve more written and oral work from the students. Amy Cothran, a senior English and history major, said, "The great thing about being in the Honors Program is that you get great teachers like Dr. [Pat] Garner and Dr. [Larry] Long. I came to Harding without a major and, because of Dr. Long, I just naturallywent into being an Englishmajor." The second tier is the Honors Student Program, which offers students the opportunity to take honors sections of general education classes. To qualify, a student must score a 27 on the ACT or a 1200 on the SAT. The third tier is the Honors Contract Courses, which are open to upper-level students who complete the general education curriculum in honors. This course is flexible and designed to meet the needs of the individual student in his or her major. As an entering freshman, Angela Sholl decided to come to Hardingwhen she visited the campus with a friend. "Once I was here, I loved it, so I began looking at scholarships," she said. As a graduating senior, Sholl said, "Harding has given me the opportunity to have a closer relationship with my teachers than I would have at a larger university." Cothran said that the primary reasons for coming to Harding were the scholarship that were provided for National Merit Scholars and the Honors Program. "The good thing about being in the Honors Program is that you start as a freshman with a group of people and you work with them for the rest of school," she said. Offering advice to the incoming freshmen, Cothran said, "Take advantage of every aspect [ofthe Honors Program]. Get involved and use the resources you are taught to develop your thinking skills, which will help you in your major." - Rebecca West Omicron Delta Kappa. First row: Sara Elmer, Jenny Moses, Allison Rector, Amanda McKnight. Second row: Jeffrey Baker, JeffHammond, Tammy Fuscher, Dr. Larry Long (faculty sponsor), Dr. Jim Carr (faculty sponsor). Photo by Aaron Gillihan. Honors Association. First row: Trickey, Wilson, Jones, Shera, Hutson, Gibson, Prewitt, Burton, Merritt, Palmer, Walters. Second row: Honeycutt, Dulaney, Ortbals, Canarsky, Shirel, Smith, Haustein, Lundy, Straughn. Third row: Cherry, Middlekauff, Pratt, Pereira, Murray, Morman, Jarvis, Howell, Knowles, Sawyer. Fourth row: Bowsmon, Wallace, Pegg, Tittle, Dennis, Reese, Polk, Evans, Scott. Fifth row: Henson, Bales, Lightsey, Fox, Waller, Phillips, Andrews, Doran, Blake, Nelson. Sixth row: Johnson, Dahl, Long, Peterson, Matthews, Fraser, Opitz . Seventh row:Harrington, Gorham, Gibbs, Pozaick, Hammond, Horton, Finrow, Plante, Howard, Rabin. Eighth row: Bramon, Humphrey, Watts, Shaver, Kemp, Chilson, Purdy, Coston. Ninth row: Graham, Wiser, Livingston, Hiatt, Brown, Zember, Berg, Blukley, Skiver. Photo by Aaron Gillihan. 216 Honors Association and Omicron Delta Kappa
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