荣誉学院 Overview
"National experts on honors colleges can name only one that is both university-affiliated and a free-standing liberal-arts institution: the Wilkes 荣誉学院, operated by Florida Atlantic University on its 木星, 佛罗里达州.,校园. Established by the Florida Legislature in 1999, it hires its own faculty members, has autonomy over its curriculum, and focuses almost solely on the liberal arts and sciences."
– “University 荣誉学院s Pitch the ‘Liberal Arts Experience’ ” 彼得·施密特， Chronicle of Higher Education, February 28, 2010
哈里特·L. Wilkes 荣誉学院 of Florida Atlantic University, which opened in the Fall of 1999, is the first public honors institution to be built from the ground up in the United States. Its intellectual foundation is a belief in liberal arts education as the best preparation for a full and productive life. As a public institution, the 荣誉学院 offers a quality education at a small fraction of the cost of a private liberal arts education, 使它成为 outstanding value.
In addition to the Wilkes 荣誉学院, Florida Atlantic at 木星 also offers upper-division and graduate degree programs from the Colleges of Education, 科学, 艺术与文学, 和建筑, Urban and Public Affairs.
校园
“I’ve realized that at the HC, I found mentors not only in professors, but also in my classmates.” - Rachel Blythe, HC Alumni
The 荣誉学院 is on Florida Atlantic's 135-acre John D. MacArthur Campus, located in 木星, along Florida's famous Treasure Coast. 木星 boasts near-perfect temperatures year round, breathtaking natural beauty, and an abundance of cultural activities that make it one of the country's most desirable areas to live.
The campus consists of six classroom and office buildings, including a library, two residence halls, 餐饮设施, 40分,000 square foot science facility. The 荣誉学院 shares the campus with two of the world's premier biotech research centers, 斯克里普斯福罗里达州 和 Max Planck Florida Institute, which can provide incredible internship opportunities for 荣誉学院 students.
The campus also offers a swimming pool, football/soccer field, 沙滩排球, basketball and tennis courts, and is adjacent to an 18-hole public golf course. It is situated in the heart of Abacoa, a 2,055-acre, master planned, mixed-use community featuring a Main Street-style Town Center and Roger Dean Stadium, the spring training headquarters for the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals as well as the home of the 木星 Hammerheads minor league baseball team.
The Academic Environment
With one faculty for every 14 students, classes are small, and learning is pursued in formal and informal settings. Students have the opportunity to work on research projects one-on-one with outstanding faculty holding Ph.D.'s from leading universities. Student/faculty collaborations have resulted in publications in scholarly journals and our graduates have gone on to some of the top graduate and professional programs 在乡下. We invite you to see some of our success stories by perusing our 毕业生档案. You can also see some of our 学生档案.
A number of universities offer honors programs or honors colleges. 但不像 荣誉的选项 at almost all of these other universities, the Wilkes 荣誉学院 allows you to take all your classes within the 荣誉学院, and your professors are faculty whose full-time appointments are to the 荣誉学院: we provide an all-honors education at an all-honors college.