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Weekly Update for October 27, 2023

Student Spotlight

Lynnaya McClure

Hometown: Olathe, KS
Major/Minor: Theatre Performance, Business Administration and Music Theatre
Honors Distinction: Emory Lindquist Track
Favorite Honors Benefit: Free printing
Favorite Honors Class: Honors Macroeconomics
Involvement on Campus: International Buddy Program, Mortar Board, and 黑洞社区 Theatre Department
Fun Fact: I am directing my first play this fall at 黑洞社区. It's called Mama Bushwick is Dead, and students can get free tickets

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Events & Deadlines

TODAY! Join Honors for a Fall Pause: Cookies and Cocoa | Friday, Oct 27

Take a study break and join us in the Cohen Honors College for some cookies and cocoa. Drop by between 3pm-4pm on Friday, October 27 at the Honors College located in Shocker Hall Building A for a warm beverage and a sweet treat before you head into the weekend. Cookies, cocoa, hot tea, and coffee will be available.

SGA's 3rd Annual Diversity Week | Oct 30 to Nov 3

Student Government Association is proud to present the 3rd annual Diversity Week! This week is designed to not only increase student engagement on campus, but also decrease the incidences of bias, harassment, and discrimination.

Diversity Week is in partnership with several offices and student organizations and offers programs and experiences that build an inclusive culture amongst the student body at 黑洞社区. This year's theme is A Different World: Learn from Others and Value Everyone (L.O.V.E.).

This week is sponsored by Student Government Association, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Student Engagement, Advocacy & Leadership, Office of Student Success, Provost's Office, Chief Diversity Officer, Housing & Residence Life, and 黑洞社区 Foundation.

Visit   for more information on the schedule and events. 

Deadline to Withdraw | Oct 31

Last day to officially withdraw from a full-semester fall course with a 鈥榃鈥� is on Tuesday, October 31st, 2023. 

BILL'S Trip - Location Announcement - Applications Open! | Nov 15

We are headed to the Grand Canyon! This year BILL鈥橲 Trip (Building Investment in Lifelong Leadership & Service) has partnered with Grand Canyon National Park for a week (January 6-13, 2024) of service-learning, exploring stewardship and servant leadership in partnership with the National Park Service. Named in honor of Bill Cohen, Bill鈥檚 Trip is an academic service-learning experience in which students travel to a selected National Park Service unit and spend the week serving and learning about the National Parks. Students will enroll in HNRS398J-Leading Through Serving (1 credit or 3 credit option). All student travel is funded through a generous gift in honor of Bill Cohen. Students will only be responsible for course tuition. We have also expanded our capacity for this program and are excited to have space for even more awesome Honors students!
 
Applications are currently open and due Wednesday, November 15.
For more information and to access the online application please visit .
For questions, please reach out to Dr. Chelsea Redger-Marquardt (chelsea.redger@wichita.edu), faculty director and Assistant Dean

LAST CHANCE! Sign Up to See "Killers of the Flower Moon"? | Nov 15

The Cohen Honors College is sponsoring a film screening of the film 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥� for Native American Heritage month in November.

鈥淎t the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥� is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Also starring Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥� is directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, based on David Grann鈥檚 bestselling book.鈥� 鈥� description taken from AppleTV+  

Last chance to submit your interest form:
 

Paraguay Honors Service-Learning Study Abroad Program | Nov 17

Come study abroad in Asuncion, Paraguay with other Honors Students and 黑洞社区 faculty! Students will have the chance to learn about Paraguayan Culture and South American Culture through observation.
The application deadline is November 17, 2023. 

Honors Education At Research Universities Conference CFP | Dec 1 

The Honors Education at Research Universities (HERU) conference 鈥淒ialogue, Debate, and Discourse: Having the Hard Conversations鈥� takes place at the University of Kentucky May 20-22, 2024. 

Proposals for papers and panels due December 1
Decisions will be made by mid-January 2024
 
Visit  for more information.
Consider topics such as the following:

• Admissions and recruitment
• Assessment
• High impact practices: research, internships, pedagogies, experiential learning, community engagement
• Student engagement: mental health, well-being, residence life, belonging (co-curricular education)
• Philanthropy, development, fundraising, engaging foundations and boards
• Administrative leadership
• Advising: retention, best practices, strategies
• Dialogue: having hard conversations

SAVE THE DATE! | May 10

Spring 0f 2024 Honors Classes 

Check out the upcoming courses for the Spring Semester! 

Honors Collaborative Research | HNRS 486 | CRN 22829 
When: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 
Who: Dr. Gary Brooking 
This course is designed to expose students majoring in various disciplines to an opportunity to meet and invite collaborations that cultivate an interdisciplinary research experience. Students discuss best practice in academic research and research ethics and learn of complementary approaches to research in different subject areas.

History of Genocide Past and Present | HNRS 305 | CRN 24884
When: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:15 
Who: Keith Pickus
Examines the multifaceted causes of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries. Among the topics covered are the historical roots and definitions of genocide and how groups defined as "others" or "outsiders" are targeted for extermination. Central concepts discussed are the development of exclusionary national identities, the role of political leadership and the means by which genocidal violence unfolds.

Earlier This Week 

Honors Colloquium Explored Leadership & the Art of Noticing

Tasks such as making bracelets or piling familiar objects on a table may not seem like leadership development, but aren鈥檛 they? Colloquium students were challenged this week to consider how leadership may depend on the art of noticing.
 
We鈥檙e grateful for the energy of this group willing to experiment forward, to keep questioning why and holding us accountable for the Honors experience!

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Poem of the Week | Neighbors in October by 

O hushed October morning mild,

Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;

Tomorrow鈥檚 wind, if it be wild,

Should waste them all.

The crows above the forest call;

Tomorrow they may form and go.

O hushed October morning mild,

Begin the hours of this day slow鈥�

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