Honors Program

Lane Community College's Honors Program offers you a challenging and transformative learning experience based in scholarly inquiry, academic rigor, and intellectual growth.

By applying to the Honors Program, you’ll be engaging in an enriching honors community and will be able to graduate with honors recognition on your transcript.

Curious about the differences between the Honors Program, Honor Societies like Phi Theta Kappa, Honors Lists, and graduating with Honors? Lane offers a variety of ways to recognize your academic achievements. Learn about the differences, as well as the graduation regalia associated with each.

Applying to the Honors Program

Any Lane student can enroll in an honors course or request the honors option for courses designated as honors option classes. However, admission into Lane’s Honors Program requires a formal application.

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Learn about Requirements

Honors Program applications received during summer term will be reviewed beginning in September.

Benefits to Joining the Lane Honors Program

Collaborative learning with other engaged students
Honors recognition on both transcript and diploma
Small classes that encourage discussion and debate
Experiential learning opportunities
Faculty mentorship
Research assistance and workshops from the honors librarian
Honors events such as field trips, guest speakers, and dinners

Completing Lane’s Honors Program means you’ll be well prepared for upper division coursework and university honors programs, and have a competitive edge when applying for university transfer, scholarships, and jobs.

Undergraduate research is a central component of the Lane Honors Program. As a student in the honors program, you’ll have multiple opportunities to engage in original research and to share your research findings with a wider audience. Check out our Undergraduate Research Blog.

Looking for Honors Program Advising? See your program advisor and self-identify as a Lane Honors student: Program Advising Teams.

Honors Administration

Kimberley Parzuchowski
Honors Faculty Coordinator
Email: parzk@lanecc.edu

Honors Librarian

Claire Dannenbaum
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Office: Library, Building 18, second floor
Email: dannenbaumc@lanecc.edu
Phone: (541) 463-5759

Honors Experiential Learning

Gerry Meenaghan

Cooperative Education Coordinator
Office: Building 19, Room 231
Email: meenaghang@lanecc.edu
Phone: (541) 463-5883

Undergraduate research is a central component of the Lane Honors Program. Students have multiple opportunities to engage in original research and to share their research findings with a wider audience. See the Honors Undergraduate Research Blog as well as the examples below:

Students publish work in The Palouse Review, an arts and academics journal published biannually by the Washington State University Honors College:

Jeremiah Vandagrift's photograph: “Under the Cloud Veil” (May 2020 Edition)

Meg Strout's essay: “When the Lilacs Bloom” (Fall 2019 Edition)

Sabrina Piccolo and Tonyae Meeks review Sabrina's research poster at the 2018 Lane Undergraduate Research Fair.

In 2018, the seminar students organized a moderated panel to address dialect discrimination in high schools. Jesus Narvaez moderated the panel while including aspects of his own research. Panelists (from left: Pia Pham, Sabrina Piccolo, Clint Corsi) answered his questions, engaged with one another, and presented their individual research findings.

Catherine Mullins interviewed scholar Joseph Pearce as part of her research into Emily Brontë’s work for the HON 201_H Invitation to Inquiry Seminar, and the resulting scholar biography was published in the St. Austin Review.

In 2017, the Capstone students once again organized a symposium and presented on two topics: morality legislation and the impact of alcohol education on sexual assaults on college campuses. The symposium included a roundtable discussion, two PowerPoint presentations, two paper presentations, and live music.

Curious what Honors courses you can take? You can also see what courses are currently available by searching for coursers with “H” (such as WR 121H) in the course schedule or type “honors” in the Quick Class Search Box.

While we encourage all interested students to apply to and join the honors program, you can also enroll in honors courses on their own.

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Grade Point Average for Honors

Honors students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.25 and an honors GPA of 3.0 for all honors courses. Students who fall below these minimums must meet with the honors coordinator to develop a plan. Then the student has two terms to bring their GPA back up.

Grades Earned in Honors Classes

All honors classes and options must be taken for a letter grade. The minimum grade acceptable for honors classes is a C-.

Program Completion

To successfully complete the Honors Program, students must:

Attend an Honors Program orientation
Complete four honors classes and/or options
Complete the experiential learning component

Honors courses taken at other colleges that are comparable to Lane honors courses will be accepted; however, you are required to complete at least half of your honors credits at Lane.