Since the introduction of the Wesleyan Scholars program in 1985 and its expansion in 1995, the Honors and Scholars Program at Virginia Wesleyan College has been encouraging campus-wide scholarship. The Honors & Scholars Program offers competitive merit-based scholarships to attract quality students to Virginia Wesleyan College who will be intellectual leaders in the classroom and community leaders on campus. The Honors & Scholars Program rewards academic excellence and ensures that, once here, our best students have an intellectually enriching and challenging experience. The Honors & Scholars Program is open to all Virginia Wesleyan students who qualify (see FAQ page for more information).
The Honors & Scholars program offers many benefits, both to the students in the program and to the college as a whole. The Program allows honors students to go beyond the usual disciplinary boundaries of a subject, to develop individualized approaches to existing classes, and to increase one-on-one interaction with professors. Wesleyan and Presidential Scholars also receive benefits for participating in the program such as priority housing in East Hall, priority registration, co-curricular events and opportunities. The Honors & Scholars Program also benefits the Virginia Wesleyan community as a whole, by creating a greater awareness of scholarly achievement on campus, providing a model of honor within the community, sponsoring programs that raise the level of intellectual engagement and discourse on campus, and offering professors the chance to develop courses that will excite them as much as they do the students.
Goals of Honors & Scholars
- To enhance and make more visible the idea of Virginia Wesleyan as a community of scholars
- To reward academic excellence on our campus
- To provide a model of honor within the campus society
If you are a potential applicant to VWC interested in merit-based scholarships, you should contact the Admissions Office to ask about Presidential Scholarships and the Wesleyan Scholarship Competition.
If you are a student interested in graduating with "Latin Honors" (summa cum laude, magna cum laude, or cum laude), contact the Registrar’s Office or consult the college catalogue to learn more about the requirements.
If you have any questions about the Honors & Scholars Program, please contact Dr. Joyce Easter , 757.455.2126, or the student president for the 2007-08 academic year, Ashley Roane.
In addition to Dr. Easter, the Honors & Scholars Program is administered by a committee consisting of one professor from each academic division. Dr. Sara Sewell (Social Sciences), Dr. Jeffrey Timmons (Humanitites), and Dr. Margaret Reese (Natural Sciences and Mathematics) comprise the 2007-08 committee.