Organizations

Honors Advisory Committee

Honors Students who advise the Honors Director comprise the Honors Advisory Committee.  The HAC serves as a sounding board for initial ideas, reviews detailed proposals on the way to the Honors Steering Committee, and suggests innovations on its own.  The HAC also initiates projects that it carries through to completion.  It has become indispensable for improving the curricula, policies, and programs of Honors at Iowa.

 

►	Please click here for the HAC Charter.
►	Please click here for the HAC Membership.
►	And please click here for HAC Projects.

 

Responding to an annual call for volunteers, the members typically form a group too large for the intense conversations favored by the HAC.  So it meets in some three smaller, sub-groups for ninety-minute discussions in the same week.  All sub-groups address the same monthly agenda about Honors needs and opportunities; yet the deliberations are progressive, with each sub-group attending carefully to considerations and sometimes votes taken in meetings earlier that week.  This produces a parliamentary procedure that is unusual, to say the least, but highly effective so far.

 

The HAC needs a wide spectrum of members who know about diverse aspects of Honors and the University of Iowa.  It especially needs members immersed in different stages and kinds of work through Honors at Iowa.  So it encourages volunteers who range from their first-semester at Iowa to students in their final years.  It appreciates the involvement of students not formerly active in Honors but now interested in learning more about its many endeavors.  Much of what Honors at Iowa is doing best these days traces to the HAC or the Honors Student Staff.  Hence four semesters of vigorous service on the HAC can earn an Honors Commendation.