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Honors program expands housing applications
Elizabeth Ruocco
Issue date: 11/20/08 Section: News
The university's Honors Program has changed its housing application process for Wilson Hall, formerly South A, to mirror the process used for the sophomore honors community currently housed in Brock Hall, according to program director Missy Korduner.
ResLife asked the Honors Program to expand the two-year-old process used for students applying to Brock Hall to encompass Wilson Hall as well because the system was effective, Korduner said.
"In addition to completing the online application with Residential Life, students also complete a very short supplemental application that is returned to honors for review," Korduner said of the new process in place for Wilson Hall.
A required part of the supplemental application is a short essay. The essay asks students who are already part of the Honors Program to explain their role in the program, as well as their involvement in the UConn community. Students who are not a part of the Honors Program, but are applying to live in honors-specified residential areas are asked to write an essay in which they discuss their reasons for wanting to live in honors
housing, how they will contribute to the area and also how it will impact their academic year.
After the honors program selects the students for each community, they are assigned
to their rooms and notified by ResLife. The selected students do not participate in the online housing selection process, Korduner said.
Kathleen Cooney, a 3rd-semester biomedical engineering major, is a part of the Honors program and currently lives in Brock Hall. Cooney, who is applying to live in Wilson Hall next year, said the new application process was not difficult. She said that the required essay did not take her long to complete.
The Honors program has several designated residences on campus. The first-year honors community is located in Shippee Hall, as well as the second floor of Buckley Hall's south tower. Sophomores in the program live on the fifth and sixth floor of Brock Hall in Alumni. Wilson Hall in South is also an honors community that houses a majority of the upperclassmen in the program.
Wilson Hall houses approximately 164 students, including Community Assistants. Not all the students living there are apart of the honors program however.
Honors housing supplemental applications are due by Feb. 13, 2009. They can be handed in at the Honors Program Office in the Center for Undergraduate Education, room 419. Applications can also be e-mailed to honors@uconn.edu.
ResLife asked the Honors Program to expand the two-year-old process used for students applying to Brock Hall to encompass Wilson Hall as well because the system was effective, Korduner said.
"In addition to completing the online application with Residential Life, students also complete a very short supplemental application that is returned to honors for review," Korduner said of the new process in place for Wilson Hall.
A required part of the supplemental application is a short essay. The essay asks students who are already part of the Honors Program to explain their role in the program, as well as their involvement in the UConn community. Students who are not a part of the Honors Program, but are applying to live in honors-specified residential areas are asked to write an essay in which they discuss their reasons for wanting to live in honors
housing, how they will contribute to the area and also how it will impact their academic year.
After the honors program selects the students for each community, they are assigned
to their rooms and notified by ResLife. The selected students do not participate in the online housing selection process, Korduner said.
Kathleen Cooney, a 3rd-semester biomedical engineering major, is a part of the Honors program and currently lives in Brock Hall. Cooney, who is applying to live in Wilson Hall next year, said the new application process was not difficult. She said that the required essay did not take her long to complete.
The Honors program has several designated residences on campus. The first-year honors community is located in Shippee Hall, as well as the second floor of Buckley Hall's south tower. Sophomores in the program live on the fifth and sixth floor of Brock Hall in Alumni. Wilson Hall in South is also an honors community that houses a majority of the upperclassmen in the program.
Wilson Hall houses approximately 164 students, including Community Assistants. Not all the students living there are apart of the honors program however.
Honors housing supplemental applications are due by Feb. 13, 2009. They can be handed in at the Honors Program Office in the Center for Undergraduate Education, room 419. Applications can also be e-mailed to honors@uconn.edu.
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