Honors Program - How Honors is Structured
Honors Houses: Rooted in ancient tradition, and named after distinguished past Honors Directors, Augsburg’s Honors Houses offer student leadership, voice, and community. Through their Houses, Honors students can design and create their own co-curricular activities and projects. Honors houses create vital programs and also provide entertainment and social occasions.
All Honors students must belong to an Honors House for the purpose of receiving academic advising and program information. All Honors students are required to attend mandatory meetings of the Honors Program or of their House. These meetings are necessary for advising, information, and governance.
When students enter the Honors Program
they choose to join one of the four Honors Houses, which are rooted in ancient
academic tradition, and named after past Honors directors:
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 The Pike Stewards House coordinates
public relations, job placement, graduate school placement, and fund
raising opportunities for all Honors students. Pike House also
organizes events for alumni and fund raising. |
 The Griffin Citizens House coordinates
recruiting, social activities, admission & scholarship applications,
and the Honors web site opportunities for all Honors students. Griffin
House also organizes events for recruiting and socializing, such as banquets,
parties, and high school recruiting trips. |
 The Hesser Servants
House coordinates service learning, social justice,
experiential learning and political activity opportunities for all
Honors students. Hesser House also organizes related events,
such as honors service days and Augsburg experiences. |
| The emblems pictured above represent each house: Crocket House —a scroll, Pike House—a spear, Griffin House—a horn, and Hesser House—a crown of olive leaves. |
Augsburg Honors Review: students manage, edit, write and publish an interdisciplinary journal of undergraduate scholarship. The Honors Review accepts submissions from students at Augsburg and other colleges and universities around the nation.
Honors Disputation League: students organize, coach, research, write and rehearse as teams which then compete in intramural debate tournaments held four times each year.
Student House Presidents, Debate Captains, and Student Councils: students elected to leadership within their Honors House may serve as House Presidents or Debate Captains. The House Presidents sit on the Honors Student Presidents Council and make critical decisions about program courses and resources. House Debate Captains organize the Inter-House Disputations and judge disputes among the Honors Houses.