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"The honors community of students and faculty is committed to learning and allows us extra personal attention with some of the best professors on campus."
- Joe Starsia-Lasagna, English
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Diana Batzka ’03, a summa cum laude graduate who majored in history and minored in museum studies and French, was the recipient of the highly competitive Westover Honors Program Director’s Award for the best senior honors thesis. The curator of a photographic exhibition on Lynchburg College history during its 2003 centennial year, she is working for a year in campus ministry at the College before heading to graduate school to complete a master’s of divinity.
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Students in the Westover Honors Program can expect their college experiences to provide unique, lifelong benefits. Distinctive to the Program beyond intellectual enrichment is the opportunity for students to develop leadership skills that lend power and value to intellectual gifts.
- Enhanced academic advising: Each Fellow receives guidance from two academic advisors, one from the Honors Program and another from the student's major field(s).
- Co-curricular programming: Westover Fellows can enrich their college lives with social and cultural events designed expressly for them. These activities allow for informal interaction between Westover Fellows and their faculty mentors. The Society of Westover Fellows, a student-run organization, plans and organizes a wide range of activities such as lectures, films, and off-campus excursions.
- Priority in course scheduling: Because of the Program's rigorous academic requirements, the College assures Westover Fellows their choices of classes.
- Advanced preparation for graduate-level study: Westover Fellows build valuable skills in research and writing. By working with other Fellows in individual and group research projects and in presenting those projects to each other, Fellows prepare themselves well for graduate study in many fields.
Westover Fellows are pursuing or have completed graduate degrees at such institutions as University of Rhode Island, the George Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary, Michigan State University, Florida State University School of Law, University of Virginia, Utah State University, and Indiana University.
- Personal Guidance: Faculty members work individually with Fellows to guide them through the competitive process for obtaining national and international fellowships.
- Résumé building: Westover Fellows have the opportunity to build an outstanding, distinctive, top-tier résumé that will be highly competitive for the job market, for admission into graduate programs, or in professions such as law, medicine, and business.
- Alumni network: Westover Fellows have distinguished themselves in politics, government, education, religion, science, medicine, research, finance, business, and computer science. Often these alumni are willing to extend helping hands to assist other Fellows in their pursuits.
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