Special Benefits and Privileges for University Honors Students

The Honors Program sponsors a variety of speakers, cultural activities and special events for students, including the Honors Symposium, the Honors Art Exhibition and the Honors Authors programs. In addition:

• Incoming first-year Honors students are assured academic scholarships through the University's scholarship selection process, provided appropriate application materials are submitted on time.
   
• Honors students may apply for grants to assist with international projects through the University's Cordell W. Hull International Fellows Fund, or for assistance with service and leadership projects through the Patrick F. Palermo Honors Program Founders Fund.
   
• Honors students may apply for grants to assist with Honors Thesis projects and for travel funds to present their research at scholarly or professional conferences.
   
• Honors students receive special library benefits. There is also a special study room in the library for students in the Honors Program.
   
• The Associate Director for Fellowship Advising assists students considering graduate school and students applying for prestigious awards and national competitive fellowships.
   
• Honors students are guaranteed University housing for four years and are eligible for special Honors housing and Honors residential programming:

"Junior and senior honors housing consist of specific houses (see below) and Garden Apartments. The honors lottery held in January is for honors students with groups that consist of at least 1/2 or majority of group members as honors students. So a group of 5 would need to have at least 3 honors students to participate for the 5-person house lottery. If a honors group is not successful within the honors lottery, they are able to participate within the general student lottery.

"Junior and senior students are not guaranteed UD housing. However, junior and senior honors students are guaranteed housing; however, the guarantee of housing provides the student with the housing that we have available to offer the honors students. Historically, we've always been able to offer any junior or senior student housing if the student was willing to accept the housing that was available. Our guarantee of honors housing does not guarantee a specific-size residence. We often have 4-person apartments available to students and we'll allow 5-person groups to divide up into groups of 4 and 1 or 3 and 2 with the understanding that we will fill vacancies within the apartments if the group members do not have anyone to fill the spots."

University Honors Upper Class Students Housing
South Neighborhood
411 Irving (4 capacity)
413 Irving (4)
223 Irving (5)
225 Irving (5)
529 Irving (5)
427 Irving (6)

Holy Angels Area
1316 Brown (12)

North Neighborhood
60 Chambers (6 capacity)
53 Woodland (6)

• Honors students can participate in the annual Honors Art Competition and Exhibit.
   
• Honors students can Enjoy the cultural arts on campus and in the local Dayton area with help from the University Honors Program (info upcoming for details about specific events in 2008-09):
  
  - We will subsidize your ticket cost up to $10 each for two Dayton admissions
    or performances.
  - We will subsidizes $10 towards a student ticket to the University Arts Series
    each fall.
  - Just bring us your ticket stub and the receipt in person within 30 days
    of the performance.
  
  Each student is eligible for reimbursement of no more than two separate events or performances, for a total of $30 per academic year, including $10 for the University Arts Series.