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Inaugural class selected for Honors College at Fort Hays State

tmnstaff April 27, 2015 No Comments
The new Honors College at Fort Hays State University will begin its first year in the fall with a class of 31 students, 17 of them incoming freshmen plus one transfer student and a current student joining the honors program.

They will join 12 students converting from the Distinguished Scholars Program, which the Honors College replaces. The idea in both is to provide a challenging curriculum across the range of programs for academically gifted and ambitious students.

Eighteen of the students qualified for three scholarships created especially for the Honors College.

“We have a great incoming class, and we exceeded our incoming freshman goal by 60 percent,” said Matt Means, director of the Honors College. He also founded the predecessor Distinguished Scholars Program.

“This is a very auspicious beginning for the FHSU Honors College and augurs well for the future,” he said. “It is a testament to a phenomenal sense of teamwork from a great number of committed FHSU students, faculty and staff that this was accomplished in only three and a half months.”

“This is an impressive cadre of bright young minds,” said FHSU President Mirta Martin. “Matt Means and his team have accomplished in three and a half months what it has taken other universities two and a half years to accomplish. I want to thank them all for making our founding class of the Honors College so very impressive and for instilling in these young people a passion to make FHSU their destination of choice.”

Of the college scholarship winners, two won full-ride Regents Scholarships, which provide full tuition and housing to qualifying students from in or out of state. It also provides up to $450 per semester for books.

Twelve students qualified for $10,000 FHSU Honors College Scholarships, which provide $4,000 for tuition and fees and $6,000 toward room and board. The housing award is dependent on the student living on the honors floor established in McMindes Hall.

Four others qualified for $6,700 FHSU Honors College Scholarships, which provide $2,700 for tuition and fees and $4,000 for housing. The housing award, again, is dependent on the recipient living in university housing designated for Honors College students.

The inaugural Honors College class listed by hometown

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