Honors Student Activities
What Are We Doing?
"Energetic" is one word to describe our honors students. You can tell they're going places.
UIW honors students are all over campus, involved in varsity sports and in many of the student organizations. One of our students is even a Cardinal mascot! And--just to brag some more--all three of our theater majors had starring roles in the two fall 2009 productions of the theater department.
You can find honors students in the Pre-Pharmacy Association, Pre-Health Professionals Society, Fashion Society, Cardinal band, cheerleading, and Campus Ministry. Our students are helping to restart the Biology Club, the American Society of Interior Designers and the National Society for Success and Leadership.
The Honors Program is a member of the Student Government Association and participates in their annual Golden Harvest food collection drive.
- tours at Museo Alameda, Anne Frank exhibit, San Antonio Museum of Art
- lectures at the UT Health Science Center and the Mind Science Foundation
- performances by the San Antonio Symphony, Ballet San Antonio and San Antonio Opera
But you've got to relax sometime. We have fun too...
We've grilled burgers, played sand volleyball, and participated in intramural softball and dodgeball, winning the spring Dodgeball Championship!
Social Justice and Community Service
The Honors Program covers the cost for students to travel on social justice trips in the fall of each year. Last year we went to Piedras Negras, Mexico and this year we went to El Paso to look at the border issues. The social justice trip is sponsored by the Honors Program so that students can observe the difficult conditions in which other people less fortunate than ourselves live and work. In Piedras Negras, students saw how the residents are developing ways to help themselves overcome the harshness of daily living and we are planning similar types of activities this year. El Paso included many different perspectives on trade and immigration. Service learning is always included.
Honors students are in the middle of community service efforts too:
They have nailed, hammered, weeded, painted, and collected and distributed food for local nonprofits such as a children’s shelter, Inner City Development, the San Antonio Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity.
In the 09-10 school year we are partnering with Haven for Hope, a local organization serving the homeless population of San Antonio. We are developing two new programs: 1) a tour of Haven we will deliver to eighth-graders around metropolitan San Antonio and 2) a sports program for the youth living at Haven for Hope.
