UCCS faculty and staff celebrate with the Rocky Mountain Honors Council traveling trophy. From left: Armela Makas, Audrianna Vance, Carrie Arnold, assistant director, Honors Program, Michael Hackman director, Honors Program and professor, communications, and William Covington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThis year’s prompt was entitled “Vergangensheitsbewaltigung” and challenged students to look at issues that\u00a0require coming to terms with the past. Examples given were\u00a0Germany\u2019s individual and collective work to come to terms with the history of the Holocaust, and South Africa\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Committee, which built multijurisdictional peace parks after\u00a0apartheid.<\/p>\n
UCCS students\u00a0Kendra Batek, William Covington, Jaclyn Fuhrman, Tesia Marie Kwak, Armela Maka\u0161, Taylor Schumacher, Audrianna Vance, and Shannon Triplett focused on the forgotten plight of Native Americans.<\/p>\n
The team beat out students from CU-Boulder, CU Denver, the University of Denver, Colorado State University-Fort Collins,\u00a0Colorado State University-Pueblo, the\u00a0University of Wyoming,\u00a0Regis University and\u00a0Metropolitan State University of Denver.<\/p>\n
UCCS will host the 3rd annual\u00a0Rocky Mountain Honors Council Symposium during the 2015 spring semester.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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