Honors Program
The W. Garie Taylor Honors Program of the University of Tennessee Southern promotes a community of scholars through the development of challenging curricula, cultural enrichment, and face-to-face interaction with guest speakers who are leaders in the religious, political, academic, business, scientific, and arts arenas. The program fosters community through participation of academic scholarship winners; small class interaction with Honors Program professors; visits to museums or to places of historical, ecological, scientific, economic, or artistic importance; and community service. Guest speakers expose program participants to ideas of both new and historic significance.
The Taylor Honors Program is open to all students with a 25 ACT and a minimum 3.5 GPA in high school. Students invited to join the program will be required to complete an honors section each of the first four semesters they attend the University of Tennessee Southern. Students must maintain at least a 3.0 GPA in order to continue in the Honors Program.
Students who do not meet the above requirements may participate in the Honors Program if they have a cumulative 3.0 GPA after their first semester of at least 15 hours at the University of Tennessee Southern. Students must maintain at least a 3.0 GPA in order to continue in the Honors Program.
Transfer students may enter the University of Tennessee Southern Honors Program by:
- graduating from an honors program at a two-year college, or
- completing honors classes at another college and having a transcript evaluation upon matriculation to the University of Tennessee Southern.
For more information, contact Dr. Jac Cole or Dr. Dan Scherr the chairs of the Honors Program.