A community of scholars
The Horace Mann Bond Honors Program offers academically talented students a well-structured and challenging multidisciplinary honors curriculum. The program encourages students to become problem solvers and more responsive to the needs of the human community by combining excellence in Liberal Arts education with traditional virtues of adult accountability: reason, respect, reverence, reciprocity, restraint, reliability and responsibility.
Through this program, you can seize the opportunity to further your intellectual growth through research, cultural enrichment, and community service.
To be eligible as a first-year student, your high school cumulative grade point average should be 3.3 or higher, with a combined minimum SAT score of 1,000. Sophomores are also eligible if a 3.3 minimum cumulative GPA was maintained during freshman year here.
There are special challenges for academic achievement, including requirements to:
There are special opportunities for extracurricular activities, including participation in:
As an Honors student, you will be expected to participate in as many of these activities and opportunities as possible. You will also be expected to develop your leadership skills by becoming involved in Lincoln’s Student Government Association and other student organizations on campus. The Honors Program staff collaborates with the Study Abroad and Career Service Offices to identify and develop international study and summer research opportunities for Honors students.
