Ramapo College of New Jersey College Honors Program
Mission Statement
The Ramapo College Honors Program is a community of faculty and students dedicated to intellectual, creative and moral engagement. Honors students seek excellence through continual guidance and a distinctive curriculum of critical thinking, intercultural and international understanding, experiential learning, service, and interdisciplinary studies. The end of the program is the beginning of an enriched and accomplished life. Ramapo College invites all who have the aspiration, potential and passion for discovery to join.
Commencing September 2009, Ramapo College of New Jersey invites incoming students to consider admission into the College Honors Program four-year curriculum. Student in the program will be challenged by courses that fulfill College requirements in a way interesting to students who are curious and enjoy learning as an end in itself. Students will also become part of an intentional learning community designed to ignite the imagination of all students at the College so that all our students become engaged in their own learning.
In the College Honors Program at Ramapo College of New Jersey, intellectual development is inseparable from one's own growth and development as a whole human being. Students work with faculty mentors who monitor their progress as engaged learners and as contributing members of the college, the wider community and society.
Good academic standing is a consequence of the engaged values of a College Honors student, not the primary goal. Self motivated intellectual independence from extrinsic rewards is the distinctive disposition of a College Honors student. Intellectual strengths are essential to academic engagement but intellectual strengths, by themselves, are not adequate to define the attitude of academic engagement. If you long for the personal experience of fulfillment that comes from encountering new ideas in dialogue with others and if you approach your scholarly research in a deeply personal manner and are seeking to find ways to contribute to society, consider the College Honors Program.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
-- Mary Oliver
Dr. Marta Vides Saade
Director's Message:
Welcome to all returning College Honors Students, to our new College Honors cohort and to all of you who are visiting our homepage for the first time! This Fall 2008 term we have many new and exciting developments. We are piloting two First Year Seminar courses for College Honors students only: "Nature, Science and Society - An Ecological Framework" and "Encounter with the Other." I take this opportunity to thank the TAS Research Honors program for the courtesy of using its conference space. We welcome the College Honors community to our own College Honors Lounge in A110. The space is designed as a social gathering place for students, a center for academic and co-curricular activity, as well as meeting place to facilitate student-faculty research. Good thoughts for all of you as the Fall term begins.
Saludos. - Dr. Marta Vides Saade
Contact:
Dr. Marta Vides Saade
Director of the College Honors Program
Tel.: (201) 684-7669
E-mail: mvides@ramapo.edu
