{"id":108541,"date":"2026-04-28T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=108541"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:05:10","slug":"call-for-honors-contract-faculty-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/call-for-honors-contract-faculty-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for honors contract faculty sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you interested in engaging in an honors contract (a mini independent project that allows a student to earn honors credits in a non-honors course)?<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

April 28, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Honors Program is seeking faculty interested in engaging in honors contracts with undergraduate honors students. Honors contracts are a great way to attract high-achieving and highly motivated students to courses and majors. For students, honors contracts allow them to tailor their learning in their courses to their own personal interests and goals; they provide opportunities for honors-level work when there are limitations on the number of honors courses offered; and they foster close mentoring relationships with faculty.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honors contracts are 20-hour independent scholarly or creative projects that honors students undertake to be able to earn honors credits in a non-honors course. (Note this is not extra credit<\/em>; it is translating the course credits to fulfill honors credit requirements.) The project should amplify or expand the course topics and materials, not simply be more work. They require, in general, 3-5 hours of work total on the part of the faculty member. These projects can be individual independent projects (if there is only one honors student requesting one in a class) or group independent projects (if there are multiple students \u2013 up to 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit the Honors Program website on contracts.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completion of this Google Form<\/a> will place you on a student-facing list of faculty available for contracts. (There is a limit of 3 honors contracts per faculty member in any given semester.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you interested in engaging in an honors contract (a mini independent project that allows a student to earn honors credits in a non-honors course)? April 28, 2026 The äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Honors Program is seeking faculty interested in engaging in honors contracts with undergraduate honors students. Honors contracts are a great way to attract high-achieving and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-108541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108542,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108541\/revisions\/108542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}