Our website uses cookies to understand how you navigate our content and to give you the best browsing experience.
Please read our Data Protection & Use Notification to learn more.
Our website uses cookies to understand how you navigate our content and to give you the best browsing experience.
Please read our Data Protection & Use Notification to learn more.
Colleges / Schools
We Are A Community of Learners, Doers and Emerging Professionals.
Arcadia’s Honors Program is a place where students with many talents and passions are encouraged to feed their strengths, refine them, and then own them. The program grows in the direction of our values, passions, and talents. Students are encouraged to take the best of themselves to create impact in ways that are fulfilling to individuals, teams and the larger community in a way that positions them to go forth and make positive impacts on innovative, strategic and empathetic teams and also recognize the pathway to their own happiness.
The program invests in specialized opportunities for professional-level scholarship, co-curricular experiences, mentoring, academic service learning, and presentations are provided to ready our students for their professional careers, and maximize their marketing ability and ensure a truly engaging academic experience that spills from the classroom to the larger community.
In the Honors Program we believe that everyone needs to learn how to maximize their own strengths and be able to articulate how they will do just that. Our foundation class, The Study of Self and Teams, focuses on getting students consciously aware of why they believe what they believe and how they can use their skills and strengths to create successful team outcomes in line with those core values and missions.
The Honors Program focuses in and out of the classroom on students’ leadership potential. Leadership is seen as the ability to work to your strengths in a team environment where your influence can lead to positive changes. We begin our study in HN201 The Study of Self and Teams where students move through a curriculum focusing on empathy, storytelling, mission statements, shared vision, values, communication, motivation, teamwork, networking and innovation. These same areas of emphasis are explored more experientially in HN 390 courses, where Honors Students use those skills to design and innovate in order to problem solve in real world scenarios. Then students are encouraged to use their developing leadership skills intentionally outside of the class in the vast array of supported opportunities to mentor, create campus events, intern, present and publish their work.
The Compass - For the online scholarly journal The Compass, Honors Students serve as editors, layout and business personnel. They meet with faculty and staff to publish a scholarly journal that takes submissions from around the globe.
The College Access Program (CAMP) - After being trained as mentors at Arcadia, Honors Students develop programming which is implemented weekly at a local high school in order to improve students' study skills, ability to self advocate, and preparedness for future academic and professional choices.
Honors Fulfillment Scholarship - Approximately six months prior to graduation, Honors students can apply for a $500 Honors Fulfillment Scholarship awarded to students who will finish the Honors program academic requirements prior to their graduation. This scholarship will be awarded prior to their final semester of study.
Outside the classroom Honors Students have access to wide range of opportunities to allow them to explore their interests and use their talents.
Our program hosts is a thriving group of Honors Students who desire to create an active community on Arcadia’s campus and beyond. Some of these students coordinate philanthropic, social and leadership events. Other students are trained to mentor their peers and bring them fully into the Arcadia community. These students make choices for co- and extra-curricular programming and implement those choices. All Honors students are encouraged to sit on a sub-committee.
Some of these students coordinate philanthropic, social and leadership events. Other students are trained to mentor their peers and bring them fully into the Arcadia community. These students make choices for co- and extra-curricular programming and implement those choices. All Honors Students are encouraged to sit on a sub-committee.
Our students organize and implement a number of events each year. Many of them are annual events that have become a part of our Honors Program tradition.
Your home on campus. A place for Honors Students to gather, meet, celebrate, study, brainstorm, have access to the Director, and relax! Students who are not currently affiliated with the Honors program are welcome to use the space as well when accompanied by their Honors peers! Amenities include a quiet computer room, a refrigerator to store your lunch, a microwave, a coffee maker for important studying energy, comfy couches, an all-gender bathroom, games, a television for group movie nights, and more.
As a student in the program, you must maintain a grade point average of 3.35 to remain in good standing. You also may not go more than one academic year without fulfilling an Honors requirement.
Students who fall below these credentials, but would still like to be considered for Honors Program acceptance, can apply to the program through the Honors Program Application. These applications are rolling. Review of these applications will begin September 1st, so it is recommended that students get their applications in early as the program is competitive.
Approximately six months prior to graduation, Honors students can apply for a $500 Honors Fulfillment Scholarship awarded to students who will finish the Honors program academic requirements prior to their graduation. This scholarship will be awarded prior to their final semester of study.
Honing My Leadership Skills: The Adaptation Project
Developing a new perspective on leadership.
The Power of Mentorship and Education.
From the Inside Healthy Minds and Bodies Program.
Exploring E-Sports and the Growing Digital Spectatorship.
Helene Klein, M.Ed., J.D., Assistant Dean of Honors and Accelerated Programs
215-572-2054
kleinh@arcadia.edu
Enrollment Management
1-877-272-ARCADIA (1-877-272-2342)
admiss@arcadia.edu