About Honors at Iowa
Honors Plus
Honors at Iowa is becoming Honors Plus. This enacts Iowa’s distinctive, substantive vision of honors education — to serve beautifully its public mission as a major research university.
The enterprise is already several years in the making, and it extends emphatically into the next decade. It began by partnering the University of Iowa Honors Program with the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development to build the world’s only facility exclusively for talented-and-gifted education from pre-kindergarten through college. Since 2004, the award-winning Blank Honors Center has become the new, shared home for the two endeavors, contributing directly to Iowa’s distinctive practices of honors education. And since 2006, the Honors House fills the Daum Residence Hall next door with students from both.
For several takes on Honors Plus as it unfolds at Iowa, use the web navigation to the right. The ideas that animate Honors Plus appear as its principles. Specific initiatives already taking shape in Honors Plus comprise its programs. A timeline tracks Iowa’s sequence of innovations to evoke the continuing emergence of Honors Plus at Iowa. And a set of trajectories trace how Iowa credits learning that reaches from classrooms and practical experiences to the Honors Constellations and Commendations central to Honors Plus at Iowa.