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What is the most important step you can take to succeed in college? Research shows that it is getting to know at least one faculty member really well early in your undergraduate experience. Therefore Honors provides ample opportunities for you to meet and interact with Miami faculty.
Honors courses are small (usually capped at 20 students) and focused on discussion and debate, which enables you to get to know your professors on a personal level. Also, because Miami is a university focused on undergraduate education, most teaching and research assistants are not graduate students; they are undergraduates just like you. The Undergraduate Associates Program allows students to co-teach a course with a faculty member and is an excellent way to develop a mentoring relationship with a professor whose class you enjoyed.
In addition, many faculty develop co-curricular programs for Honors students such as book groups, film discussions, service trips, or fun theme-based workshops. Most Honors students will also work closely with faculty advisors during research endeavors or for their final project. Last year, over 250 faculty members, representing 95% of the departments on campus, were involved with the Honors Program in some capacity. Ultimately, it is up to you to form learning partnerships with your professors and peers, but with so many opportunities, it's almost impossible not to do so!
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| SPOTLIGHT ON JONATHAN GAIR |
"It’s been a path of professor involvement that has opened the majority of doors for me."
MY GOALS:
My goals were pretty nebulous when I entered Miami – I didn’t really know what direction everything would move. Once I got into the University, I realized how helpful the faculty and professors could be at providing me with opportunities to meet my goals and strive for new goals that developed.
MY PATH TO SUCCESS:
It has been the out-of-class research opportunities and relationships with professors, that have evolved from interacting in the classroom into having real conversations with these individuals who are so deep within their areas, that pushes me along this path. Things like a symposium at the World Bank that I participated in after my first year that a political science professor encouraged me to attend. Another professor extended a spot to me at a major academic conference. For back-to-back summers, I conducted political research in Europe, and I became an editor of the student paper. Thus, it’s been a path of professor involvement that has opened the majority of doors for me.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT
I’ve learned that it is important to really capture opportunities presented to me and use different outlets to aid other Miami students or, at the very least, be able to become more public in the things that I do here – whether it's helping to coordinate the lecture series speakers that we bring in or writing columns in the newspaper that people are able to read. I think it’s a development toward more visibility and having a real impact on different levels of the university. |
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