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get involved with honors: Conferences & Professional development

 

Regional Honors Conference

The Mid-East Honors Association (MEHA) Conference invites Honors students, faculty, and staff from over 100 colleges and universities across 8 states to discuss Honors classes, administration, advising, programming, and student organizations. It is also an opportunity for Honors students to present undergraduate research projects and enter a poster competition. MEHA Participants have opportunities to network and exchange ideas with individuals from other schools, explore the culture of a new city during "City as Text," and gain conference presentation experience to include on a resume. Several ISU Honors students participate in this conference each spring.

  Honors Student meeting Andrew Young

University and honors speakers

Honors students regularly have special access to the nationally recognized professionals who come as part of the University Speaker Series. Examples from the past few years include Jeffrey Toobin of CNN; Robert Osborn of Turner Classic Movies; Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies; and civil rights activist Andrew Young. Additionally, the Honors hosts a mini-speaker series of campus and community guests. Recent speakers have been ISU's President and Mrs. Bradley, Terre Haute Judge Craig McKee, Merlin Holland (grandson of playwright Oscar Wilde), poet Matthew Brennan, and authors Aaron Morales and Alissa Nutting.
     

professional development programming

The University Honors Program regularly partners with the ISU Career Center to offer programs that will help you prepare for your future. Whether you hope to seeking a part-time job while in college, an internship, a full-time job, or graduate school admission, the selection process is highly competitive and it is important to begin preparing your resume and learn how to present yourself as a strong candidate during your undergraduate experience. We work with the Career Center to offer interactive workshops, designed intentionally with Honors students in mind, to help you build a resume, write a cover letter, prepare for interviewing, decide whether graduate school is for you, discover graduate school resources, apply for internships, network with professionals, etc. We also encourage Honors students to participate in the various job/graduate school fairs and other Career Center programs that are open to the entire campus community.