The UCCS Honors Program came in first place at the 2nd annual Rocky Mountain Honors Council Symposium on April 5.
The event at the University of Denver and aimed to bring honors programs from along the Front Range together to meet, interact and share ideas. The centerpiece of the annual symposium is a policy competition in which each school fields a team to respond to a similar global concern
This year’s prompt was entitled “Vergangensheitsbewaltigung” and challenged students to look at issues that require coming to terms with the past. Examples given were Germany’s individual and collective work to come to terms with the history of the Holocaust, and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee, which built multijurisdictional peace parks after apartheid.
UCCS students Kendra Batek, William Covington, Jaclyn Fuhrman, Tesia Marie Kwak, Armela Makaš, Taylor Schumacher, Audrianna Vance, and Shannon Triplett focused on the forgotten plight of Native Americans.
The team beat out students from CU-Boulder, CU Denver, the University of Denver, Colorado State University-Fort Collins, Colorado State University-Pueblo, the University of Wyoming, Regis University and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
UCCS will host the 3rd annual Rocky Mountain Honors Council Symposium during the 2015 spring semester.
The UCCS Honors Program offers students a chance to work with faculty in smaller class settings and encourages them to engage in a collaborative, vigorous intellectual life that prepares them for career success and admission to graduate and professional schools. Honors students enter the program each fall as part of a cohort group. All cohort groups work together in curricular and extra-curricular environments that promote service, personal growth, and the development of a strong academic and social community.
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