Goal One

Goal 1: Implement nationally recognized markers of academically excellent higher education institutions such as Phi Beta Kappa national honor society recognition and an average of four students per year receiving national baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate fellowships (e.g., Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright scholarships or fellowships). (Target: 2025)

Recognition:

U.S. News & World Report ranked Gonzaga University No. 1 for best undergraduate teaching among the West’s 140 regional universities.

Continued Progress Towards the Goal: 

To help form the basis of a future application for a Phi Beta Kappa chapter the Academic division has worked to accomplish the following:

The intentional expansion of the existing Honors program over the past three years has grown its student population as follows:

• This expansion allows the program to offer two sections of each of the Honors core classes while improving the student/faculty ratio in those classes.
• The Honors curriculum has been modified to better match the new University Core.
• A new required Honors Composition course has been implemented.
• The language requirement within the College of Arts and Sciences completed its first year in 2016-2017.

The Undergraduate Competitive Fellowship Website was recently revised as a resource for students seeking information about applying for competitive fellowships. Faculty Fellowship Mentors provide students with valuable guidance as they pursue fellowship opportunities.