FIU’s Honors College has been stalwart- indeed, outstanding- in pursuing these and quite a few other goals over the years, and we are proud of what we’ve achieved. But the time has come for a sea change.
We believe that universities- especially state universities- can no longer afford for honors colleges to be what one former FIU provost called “boutique units.”
We believe that the long standing honors model can no longer be sustained, or indeed have significant value, in 21st century education.
We believe that the Honors College must step boldly, along with the rest of academia, into the new paradigm of higher education.
It’s time to reinvent Honors.