The Honors Program's goals are closely linked to Aurora University's goals:
- Excellence — To create enriched educational opportunities for capable, strongly prepared, highly motivated students that reflect a level of challenge suitable to this group both within and outside of the classroom.
- Integrity — To improve intellectual discourse and promote social interaction among students, faculty, administrators and practitioners through a meaningful curriculum of advanced coursework, seminars and special events.
- Citizenship — To enhance classroom learning with related experiences that encourage students to apply their special knowledge and skills in a way that serves others in the community.
- Continuous Learning — To offer eligible students flexible, challenging options for self-directed learning that may involve travel/study experiences, special projects within their majors or in general education, and a culminating, distinctive work reflective of participation in the Honors Program.
After successful completion of the Honors Program, participants will have learned:
- To develop collaborative and leadership skills within a learning community composed of honors students and faculty.
- To demonstrate the characteristics of leadership, citizenship and service as defined in the program mission.
- To develop a set of skills that enable independent and continuous learning.
- To enhance critical-thinking skills through engagement in academic and nontraditional learning experiences that require sophisticated modes of inquiry.
- To design, develop and present a major project that integrates the mission, core values and learning experiences of the Honors Program.
