CC Honors Student Association

Want to spend a part of your summer exploring our National Parks? honors student Vienne Geren spent time in the Partners in the Parks program in Mammoth Cave National Park. Partners in the Parks is an outdoor experiential learning program that offers unique opportunities for collegiate honors students to visit our national parks and broaden their understanding of the overall value of national parks to our country and its citizens.

Vienne had this to say about the experience -
“I feel SO lucky to have visited Mammoth Cave and to have had this crazy weeklong experience, and I feel even luckier to have experienced it with all of these amazing people. Thank you so much to the facilitator, guides, and honors students who have made this trip unforgettable for me.”

To learn more about the perks of - email the Director, Dr Marlee Marsh- [email protected] OR visit www.columbiasc.edu/honors 🐨 📚

Congratulations to our spring 2024 honors program graduates! 🎓 💜🐨

Missing Sariah (couldn’t find her after graduation 😢).

Shout out to student Jzurnee Myers who was asked to create a special poem for the inauguration of President today.

Jzurnee was asked by our amazing First Lady, Victoria Dozier, to write a poem for the occasion while attending the Honors Senior Medallion Ceremony and seeing Jzurnee’s honors capstone work.

Honors Senior Medallion Ceremony 2024. 🏅

We are so incredibly proud of these four seniors:

Eden Anzuoni (CIS major)
Noelle Black (Biology major)
Sariah Holmes (Biology major)
Jzurnee Myers (English and Political Science double major)

We can’t wait to watch your future success! 💜🐨

It’s time for one of our most loved and dear traditions!!!

It is an honor to be able to celebrate and recognize our amazing Seniors within the Dr. John Zubizarreta Honors Program here at CC, and we would like for you to join us!!!

Come visit us in Alumnae hall this Thursday, April 11th as our Seniors present their fantastic HON 498 projects and are awarded a special medallion for their unforgettable contributions and time within to the Honors program!

Congratulations to all our Seniors and we wish you the best of luck on your new journeys after CC!
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Super proud of our students and faculty who rocked their poster and oral presentations at this year’s conference! 🙌

President’s Reception at 🖼️ 🎨

It’s a beautiful day to explore Jacksonville, FL as City as Text at the annual meeting! Stay tuned for more from the conference!

Last week, we had a great time at the Jeopardy! Game | Diaper Derby Edition! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks to everyone who came out and had fun with HSA, and thank you Bree for being such a great game show host!

Don’t forget to continue to support the Diaper Derby at Columbia College and Emma’s Diaper Boutique in Columbia! 🐨💜

🎉 This…Is…Jeopardy! | Diaper Derby Edition! 🎉

Come join HSA this Thursday, March 14th at 6:00 PM in Breed 103 for a fun game of Jeopardy, where we will gain more awareness about the lives and realities of single mothers in our surrounding community as a means of supporting the current Diaper Derby taking place at Columbia College!

We can’t wait to see you there! 🐨💜

It’s Victory Day, Koalas! This is annual day of giving. Please consider supporting by donating here:

https://www.givecampus.com/ggph5v
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Select OTHER and write in HONORS!

Get Cultural with HSA: Romania addition. 🇷🇴 Huge thanks to own Dr. Alex Atim, who cooked authentic Romanian food and shared information about his home country with our honors students!

Last Thursday, HSA celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of our very own Honors Lounge in Edens Library!

We enjoyed tasty refreshments, hanging out with fellow Honors students, and extremely cool stickers to decorate and personalize our specially gifted individual Honors mugs!

We appreciate everyone who was able to come out and celebrate with us, and we are so excited to be back in our beloved lounge! 🐨💜

Happy December, everyone!

As we close out this semester, HSA participated in the cherished Columbia College tradition of the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at Alumnae Hall.

We were so excited to present our very own ornament to represent the Honors community on campus!

Please do have a Happy Holiday! Honors is wishing you all much peace and a strong finish to the Fall 2023 semester! 🐨💜

Day 3: Presentation Time! Our students and faculty did a fantastic job with their different presentations today at . When you see Jzurnee, Eden, Arwen, Bree, Savanna and Jordan around campus, give them a high 5!

Day 2 recap: We enjoyed the opening session of with a presentation by Deeper Than Skin.

A hallmark of Honors education is City As Text- structured exploration of place (as opposed to passively walking through your environment). Thus, the first full day of the conference involved exploring Chicago.

We got in a LOT of steps exploring city streets, eating local food and learning about the bustling city located on the shore of Lake Michigan. Two highlights were the and an architecture tour along the Chicago River.

We ended the day with a welcome reception at the conference.

Day 1 Recap for conference:

We took an early flight out of Columbia and made our way to Chicago! It was one of our student’s first time flying. We love how can broaden our students’ horizons!

We got checked into the conference hotel and while Dr Marsh participated in training for honors directors, the students and Dr Lane explored the . We reconnected for dinner at for authentic, Chicago-style deep dish pizza. After, the students participated in a student mixer hosted by the conference!

has arrived in Chicago for the annual meeting! Dr Marsh, Dr Lane, Jzurnee, Eden, Arwen, Bree, Savanna, and Jordan are ready to explore the Windy City and present on some of the amazing work they have been doing at ! Follow along with our stories this week to keep up with our adventures!

Come out and join HSA for a fun game or Would You Rather? We can’t wait to see you at 6:00!

Come get crafty with HSA tonight at 6:00 PM. We’ll be in the Terrace Lounge having so much fun. Come get creative with us! See you there!

We had a great honors retreat for our new students to meet our current students. We missed those who couldn’t join us!

See you all, Sunday!

Looking forward to welcoming our new honors students tomorrow! 🐨 📚 💜

CONGRATULATIONS to our seniors! 🎓🐨

.isabellaa Hayley & Ellona!

Honorable Mention

Ruthie is a first year biology major and student athlete on the softball team. She’s looking forward to major courses and working toward her future career.

“Honors is a program that not only helped me have a different perspective on classes that are offered but it also serves as a reminder that I can achieve anything academically challenging that comes my way because of the support and commitment I have.” -Ruthie Roman

Get Crafty with HSA 🖍

What better way to wind down to spring break than with our favorite tradition…crafts. We had a blast making origami and coloring with you all!

For our final Black History Month post we would like to take a moment to recognize our current students who embody our motto Non Magis Sed Melior.

With each class represented in this photo, we truly appreciate the self-directed and engaged students who continue to make our community a better place.

Persha - first year
Meaghan - sophomore
Jzurnee - junior
Ariana - senior

In our ongoing effort in celebrating Black History Month we are highlighting another Columbia College alumni.

Gloria Jean Grainger was one of the first black graduates of Columbia College in the year 1969. Gloria is an example of all four Cs, specifically courage. We are thankful for her trailblazing achievements.

Honorable Mention

Kris will be graduating with honors this April. She is also a biology major who will be presenting at her second conference this spring.

“My favorite part of being in honors is all of the opportunities to expand my comfort zone. I’ve gotten to take classes I wouldn’t have outside of my major to expand my horizons, I’ve had opportunities to present and gotten to meet and network with people from all around the nation.” -Kris McConnell