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Current Students

The Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University was created more than three decades ago for academically talented students, and has become an integral part of the University community.  We continue to improve on that long tradition of a quality education for exemplary undergraduates. Our students study in every discipline and take advantage of our diverse and rich array of courses to deepen and develop their major and minor fields of study. Our goal is to provide the environment where each student will grow through personal relationships with other students and faculty, academic challenges, and opportunities for leadership.

Best Wishes,

Keith M. Hearit, Ph.D.
Dean

Honors College Handbook

In order to facilitate your orientation to the Lee Honors College (LHC) we have prepared an official Lee Honors College Handbook which we hope you will use as a guide to review our program of study and answer most, if not all, of your questions. This handbook explains the requirements, rules and regulations you must follow in order to graduate from the Honors College. We highly recommend that you keep this for all of your years here and consult it first when a question arises. Should there be any significant changes in requirements or procedures we will notify you of those changes via email. Generally speaking, you will be governed by the Lee Honors College Handbook in effect at the time of your admission to the Honors College.

Honors Student Association

If you're an incoming freshman and you heard about HSA at orientation, then welcome! If you're not a freshman, and you're just poking around, well, that's fine. We promise to love you too. If you're looking for information on our lovely organization, our webpage is a good place to look, but if you want to hear more from us, then be sure to Facebook our little group so that you're always in the know when it comes to HSA.

Alpha Lambda Delta

Alpha Lambda Delta was founded in 1924 by the Dean of Women, Maria Leonard, at the University of Illinois to recognize academic excellence among freshmen women. One year before, Dean Thomas Arkle Clark had founded Phi Eta Sigma, an honor society to recognize academic excellence among freshmen men. Both groups operated as single sex organizations until the mid-70s when they both became coeducational in response to Title IX.

Alpha Lambda Delta has continued to celebrate academic excellence among first year students and has grown to over 250 chapters and has initiated over 700,000 students. The National Council which governs the organization has prudently invested the resources and gifts from local chapters, national council members, former fellowship recipients, and friends of the Society over the years so that the Perpetual Fellowship Fund now exceeds $2 million and can provide income to support 35 undergraduate scholarships of $1000 each, 23 graduate fellowships from $3000 to $7500. The fellowships are named for significant people in the history of the Society including the founder, Maria Leonard, the first adviser, Gladys Pennington, two Executive Directors, and several national presidents.