Students who wish to expand and enhance their Honors experience may apply to become Honors Scholars. In order to fulfill the requirements for the Honors Scholar tier, students must:
- Take at least 9 hours of Honors course credit
- Maintain a 3.5 GPA
- Engage in leadership activities, which may include holding officer positions in student organizations (HSO, PTK, SGA, TSS, etc.); serving as an Honors ambassador; completing UT’s Youth and Community Studies (YCS) Fellows Program; participating in the PPIA Public Service Weekend hosted by UT’s LBJ School; hosting an ACC Student Life Bat Chat; or taking Honors SPCH 1311, Introduction to Speech: “Developing Leadership Communication Competencies.”
- Engage in service activities, which may include participating in specific service projects, performing service hours (12 hours minimum) with ACC’s non-profit partners, or taking service-learning classes, such as Honors SPCH 1311: “Identity, Sex, Gender, and Culture in Communication” or SPCH 1315: “Environment, Rights, Humanitarianism and the Rhetoric of Change.” Honors students may also serve as peer tutors to ACC’s Integrated Reading and Writing students and volunteers at KOOP Radio. This community-supported local radio station allows Honors students to serve in a capacity according to their individual interests (radio and audio production, social media, web content, web maintenance, graphic design, etc.). For more information about ACC’s non-profit partners, visit ACC’s volunteer hub, which offers both in-person and remote opportunities. Students interested in green volunteering will find a wealth of options in ACC Sustainability’s “green cards.”
Students who have fulfilled these requirements receive recognition on their transcripts, a micro-credential, and honor cords for graduation ceremonies. They are also eligible to apply for the Honors Program scholarship. (If you are applying for the scholarship, please first register your intention to become an Honors Scholar at [email protected].)
Once you have fulfilled all of the requirements listed above, you will 1) follow the instructions in this document to receive your Honors Scholar micro-credential and 2) notify [email protected] after you have submitted your materials. We will only review complete submissions; all four activities must be submitted together.
Suitable is a digital badge delivery platform used to award graphic representations of micro-credentials & badges earned by students at ACC. For a complete list of badges that are available at Austin Community College, log into Suitable using your ACC email address and Okta authentication.
