The Honors Program at 20

20 Years Strong

Honors Program Staff Jennifer Townsend, Gary Kelly, Director Jon Goss, Marcy Wilcox and Kathleen O’Leary 95% PLACEMENT RATE

75% employed 16% in graduate school 4% alternative

Launched in 1997, the highly competitive Honors Program provides high-achieving students with a unique curriculum focused on creative problem-solving at the The Art of Leadership

intersection of science, technology and society. Introduced in 2017, the Honors Leadership Program is a four-year program designed to introduce and build The program also offers unparalleled opportunities for early research, global mastery of leadership theory and practice among all learning, community engagement and leadership development. Honors students. Each year is organized around a different For 20 years, the Clarkson Honors Program has drawn diverse, highly motivated students, from across the country and around the world, who represent all majors and intellectual interests. collaboration. All students complete a researchbased thesis, a condition for graduation. “Honors students are highly engaged across campus and beyond, involved in everything leadership-related theme and set of activities, including a leadership retreat, online training, peer group activities and meetings with professional mentors, most of whom are Honors alumni.

Performing original research and creating from SPEED teams to cutting-edge research new knowledge as an undergraduate is a and study abroad,” says Jon Goss, professor defining feature for students in the Honors Program. This includes an opportunity for a Performing original research and creating new knowledge as an “pre-frosh” research experience that begins the summer before students start their first year. undergraduate is a defining feature for students in the Honors Program.

Over four years, Honors students explore and director of the Honors Program and The the social and ethical implications of research Clarkson School since 2010. “They participate and consider the status of science, technology in varsity and club athletics at higher rates and medicine in modern society, as well as what than other Clarkson students. And they are constitutes “dependable knowledge.” A two-semester successful, going into rotational leadership sophomore course focuses on real-world problems, programs at major corporations and into PhD with teams of students engaged in multidisciplinary programs at prestigious research universities.” Clarkson University 19