The Global Leaders Program Video 2 - Steven Edwards - 2022 Application

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  Hello, This is Steven Edwards and I'm the director of

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  the Delgado Community College Honors program.

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  Honors Education aspires to be broader, deeper and more complex.

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  Our program is both learning centered and learner directed honors

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  meets the needs of academically advanced and motivated students.

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  And since we believe that education should be a path

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  and not an obstacle to student success, we have a

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  variety of ways that one could join the program.

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  One needs a 3.5 high school G P A or

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  3.0 College GP A inappropriate A C T or S

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  A. T scores.

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  Evidence of exceptional leadership were service.

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  All of this is detailed.

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  I'm lying at the college honors website DCC dot edu

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  slash go slash honors, and you can even apply online.

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  Our graduation criteria are a little bit less flexible.

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  You need a 3.4 g p a 15 credit hours

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  of honors courses and an e portfolio, the documents and

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  shares the work done on the program.

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  We have three kinds of honors courses at Delgado.

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  All honors courses that are limited enrolment discourses consisting entirely

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  of honor students blended honors, which are a small group

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  of honor students within a larger course form framework and

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  honors option contracts that allow students and faculty mentors to

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  turn almost any course into an honors course.

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  Honors courses are available face to face and online and

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  with the honors option, contract honors is available on all

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  campuses and for all schedules.

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  We have a very active student honors council that promotes

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  academic excellence at Delgado through co and extracurricular activities.

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  The council supports and promotes the program and advises the

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  honors director.

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  We also offer participation in local, state and national honors

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  activities and have sponsored travel opportunities, most recently to Barcelona,

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  Spain, in Athens, Greece.

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  I hope you'll consider joining us.

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  And if you have any questions about the program, please

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  contact me at said wahr at d c c dot

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  edu. And all of the information you could need about

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  the program is available at our website.

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  Welcome to honor us at Delgado Community College