Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Honors Program

08/26/2026

The officer team of the Eastern Honors Association (EHA). The time is now. Planning for the best year yet! An amazing bunch.

08/19/2026

Our EKU Honors Launch 2026 third and final day was epic! We started with morning outdoor team-building at the low-ropes course. We spent the afternoon learning about travel opportunities in EKU Honors, honors seminars and curriculum, and opportunities for leadership and involvement on our campus. Evening brought our EKU Honors Launch closing banquet. Each table at the banquet was "hosted" by one of our amazing EKU Honors alumni, who shared words of wisdom and advice with our new students. Special thanks to our Honors Launch speaker, amazing EKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni member, EKU Foundation Board member, and longtime US State Department diplomat Dr. Deborah Alexander. And special thanks also to our amazing team of sophomore, junior, and senior current honors student "Peer Mentors" who guided our new students through the incredible three-day Honors Launch experience!

08/18/2026

EKU Honors Launch 2026 Day Two (Monday) included the traditional morning group photo (in Honors Launch 2026 T-shirts) and a campus scavenger hunt. Then in the afternoon we had the students' SYKALA impromptu speeches (with a break time visit from the ice cream truck). Finally we closed the day by rocking O'Donnell Auditorium with our Song-and-Dance night with original performances by each of our student family groups!

08/17/2026

Excited to welcome our new incoming students to Honors Launch 2026 for Day One yesterday (Sunday)! Our new honors student family teams met their sophomore/junior/senior Honors Launch Peer Mentors and one another. They also navigated our "human chain" activity and built spaghetti/marshmallow towers!

07/28/2026

EKU Honors assistant director Kevin Watts was back on the recruiting trail this summer with our friends from Eastern Kentucky University Admissions!

07/08/2026

So cool seeing EKU Honors rising senior Emily Kessler's byline all over the websites and social media feeds of Galway Now--the local happenings magazine in Galway, Ireland for which Emily is interning this summer with the help of a Dr. Frank Williams Odyssey Grant from EKU Honors!

06/23/2026

Sharing here our 2025-2026 EKU Honors Annual Report (Publicity Version). We put this together every summer to update alumni and friends of EKU Honors about some of the great things going on in our honors community. Enjoy!

06/23/2026

EKU Honors is featured in the monthly June post from the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), spotlighting "Fun and Belonging" programming in three different honors units. Our spot is brief, running from about 0:45 to 0:55 in the linked video. Special shout-out to rising senior Laynie Wollam for lending us her voicing talents for our contribution!

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05/08/2026

On Thursday, May 7, 2026, we celebrated our graduating Honors Scholars at our Spring Honors Convocation.

We are so proud of each of you and can’t wait to see what you will do next!

05/07/2026

Congratulations to our Spring 2026 graduates!