Overview
Sponsored by the Honors Program & Center for Transformative Learning. Housed in Weygand Hall.
Mission: The Upper-Level Honors LLC seeks to develop mentoring and leadership skills among honors students as well as foster a sense of belonging and community. Participating in the LLC allows you to live, study, eat, and socialize with like-minded peers committed to academic success, community engagement, service, leadership, and social and racial justice.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn and be able to apply leadership and peer mentoring skills, such as
- Emotional intelligence and social competencies
- ​Active listening
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution
- Students will learn details about and be able to connect their peers to campus resources (e.g., Wellness Center, Academic Achievement Center, Title IX) and co-curricular opportunities
- Students will be able to express in words and model in their behavior BSU's values of diversity, inclusion, equity, social justice, and civil discourse
- Students will advance their interpersonal skills through community-building activities
- Students will form relationships with fellow honors students as well as Honors Program and Center for Transformative Learning faculty, staff, and administrators
Optional Engagement
Upper-level Commonwealth Honors students are invited to serve as peer mentors to first-year honors students. Mentors will gain leadership, collaboration, and communication skills and be paired with individual or small groups of first-year honors students based on academic and extracurricular interests as well as areas mentees are looking to learn more about (e.g., student clubs and organizations, campus events, undergraduate research). Upper-level honors students who participate in our Peer Mentoring Program will create invaluable relationships with their first-year peers and would be able to waive one honors credit. Students will be invited via email to complete a form indicating their interest prior to the start of the fall semester.
Upper-level Honors students interested in becoming involved in the Honors community in other ways are encouraged to enroll in a 1-credit colloquium in the fall or spring semester and/or to contact Sean Maguire if they are interested in representing the Honors Program at events or participating in focus groups.
LLC Academic Affairs Contact
Ms. Sean Maguire
Student Scholars Coordinator
Center for Transformative Learning
Maxwell Library, Room 330
Phone: 508.531.2526
E-Mail: s1maguire@bridgew.edu