Vision & Mission
LIHC Vision
To provide outstanding undergraduate students at UNCG with a nationally recognized, transforming, and practical honors education that gives those students the skills, knowledge, and global perspective necessary to enter nationally competitive graduate schools, to pursue successful careers, and to lead fulfilling personal and civic lives.
LIHC Mission
The mission of The Lloyd International Honors College (LIHC) is to recruit outstanding undergraduate students to UNCG and to provide them with an enhanced and supportive intellectual and social experience that acculturates them to the life of the mind and helps them to become critical, independent thinkers who are active in the design and pursuit of their own education, globally aware and engaged, and prepared to lead successful and fulfilling professional, civic, and personal lives.
This goal will be accomplished through the active involvement of faculty (noted for their excellence in undergraduate teaching) in:
- teaching small Honors sections of regular catalog courses, interdisciplinary Honors courses and seminars;
- guiding and supervising student research;
- guiding and supervising student international experiences such as study abroad, internships, and service learning; and
- acculturating students to the life of the mind through intellectual social activities such as cultural events, public lectures, symposia, and colloquia.
The Lloyd International Honors College shall be an independent academic unit with its own budget and with a Director who is administratively responsible to the Provost through the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education. The Director shall work in close cooperation with a faculty University Honors Council and a Honors-Student Advisory Board to establish and review policies and procedures for The Lloyd International Honors College. Consistent with these policies and procedures, subject to UNCG governance requirements, the Lloyd International Honors College shall:
- disseminate information about Honors requirements, benefits, awards, and LIHC certificate recipients to prospective Honors students and other interested publics through direct communication, university publications, and the news media;
- admit students to LIHC, maintain records concerning their continued eligibility to belong to LIHC and their progress toward earning Honors certificates, and certify their LIHC awards and LIHC certificates to the University Registrar;
- provide special Honors academic advising through LIHC's office by faculty and professional staff;
- provide advice and coaching for students interested in applying for nationally competitive scholarships, fellowships, and other awards;
- encourage and coordinate the creation and scheduling of Honors sections of regular catalog courses taught by other academic units;
- develop, schedule, and budget interdisciplinary Honors courses and seminars taught by faculty from the other academic units;
- promote Honors students' involvement in research which culminates in a Senior Honors Project;
- sponsor an Honors residence hall for those Honors students who wish to live there;
- facilitate communication with the UNCG community among students, faculty, staff, and administration with regard to Honors matters;
- celebrate the achievements of Honors students at an annual banquet;
- solicit nominations and choose among those nominations the winners of UNCG's Student Excellence Award, and celebrate the achievements of those and other exemplary UNCG students at UNCG's annual Undergraduate Honors Convocation;
- arrange special programs and events for the larger University community;
- participate fully in the activities of the National Collegiate Honors Council, the Southern Regional Honors Council, and the North Carolina Honors Association;
- work with the Development Office on programs that lead to private gifts that will support and advance LIHC's mission; and
- work with the Alumni Affairs Office to foster LIHC alumni interest and loyalty.