Honors Welcome

Honors Welcome is your official orientation to the Honors College. At 5:30 pm on Thursday, August 20, you'll report to the Grand Salon of the French House, where you'll meet your Welcome Leader and have dinner with other new Honors College students. After dinner, your Welcome Leader will explain the academic and co-curricular requirements and opportunities available to you as an Honors College student. You'll also get your Honors College Handbook and meet the Honors College staff.

During the Community Bound Service Plunge on Saturday, August 22, you'll work with your new classmates to fix up public schools in Baton Rouge. You'll meet at 9 AM in the Campbell Auditorium of the Cox Center for Student Athletes and then go with LSU faculty and staff to your school. The focus for the freshman year in the Honors College is service to community, and the Community Bound Service Plunge is the foundation for that focus. This project, and the others you will have the opportunity to participate in during your first year, is meant to foster a life-long commitment to service and community-based leadership. Refreshments and drinks will be provided. Please be sure to dress for warm weather and bring sun screen because you might be working outside. 

Honors Convocation begins at 7 PM on Wednesday, August 26 in the Ballroom of the LSU Student Union, when Mike Tidwell, author of Bayou Farewell, welcomes you and the rest of the Honors College Class of 2013. Bayou Farewell investigates the biggest problem currently facing the State of Louisiana, coastal wetlands loss, and is a core text for Honors 2000. If you haven't gotten around to it yet, make certain that you've read the book before you meet its author on August 26.