1. Welcome Back to Seminar SPRING 2016

2. Information!!! New Things for Spring 2016  Welcome to HLG 147 where we can turn the volume up, dance, play music and generally be ourselves.  We are still hosting over 1,000 Honors students. Yay you guys!  New technology – a new security camera has been mounted in the kitchen and is being monitored by the University Police Department. Hopefully, the theft will stop.  Ryan Winters was successful at getting a grant to make a smart classroom in the library/classroom in the quiet lounge. It should be done by the end of the Spring semester.

3. Seminar Book Spring 2016  Chaim Potok, The Promise  ****BIG CHANGE: Seminar Essay Questions posted on Website in two weeks.  Essays due by 5:00pm  Thursday, April 14 th at 5:00pm

4. Scholarships and Applications  Scholarship Applications for Spring 2016 are available on the website or at window on the second floor of Honors Building  Download, fill it out and turn in with transcript – transcript can come from U-link.  Scholarship Deadline, Monday, February 29 th at 4:00 pm in the Honors Office.

5. LCHC at Grambling University  What? Louisiana Collegiate Honors Conference – statewide – Free trip! Food, fun, presentations, posters, meet Honors students from other schools, talk about grad school programs – support our Quiz Bowl Team! Keep the trophy!  Where? – Grambling University  When? – February 26 th and 27 th (Friday and Saturday)  Leave Friday at 1:00 on charter bus – return Saturday evening. Everything paid for by Honors.  Sign up at the window on the second floor of Judice- Rickels – Deadline to sign up is February 5 th -  Dr. F can write excuse letters if you need them for a Friday class.

6. New Website Links  PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO VISIT THE HONORS WEBSITE DURING THE SEMESTER  Keep Up to Date with Honors Events and News  Download information, contracts, applications  Access SOC and other programs such as the ULHonors YouTube channel.

7. Reminder What is Seminar?  A time When Honors Students get information from the University, the Honors Program, and each other.  A place where students meet each other and exchange ideas.  A place to practice speaking in public.  A place to learn outside the classroom.  A place to let your ideas run free.  Come next week with your seminar idea so we can vote!

8. Rules for Seminar  Please sign in – name and clid  Please be courteous  This is not a time to do homework.  Turn your cell phones and computers off and put them away.  Try not to talk while others are speaking.  Please be on time.  Please raise a hand to speak.  Please be courteous to your Graduate Assistant and Honors Board Members.

9. Thanks!  Glad you came – bring back new and interesting ideas!