Western Regional Honors Council

The Western Regional Honors Council (WRHC) is a professional organization of faculty, administrators, and students dedicated to the promotion and advancement of undergraduate honors education. The WRHC represents honors programs in universities and colleges across the Western Region through an annual conference, through regular newsletters and email communication, and through two business meetings, one held in the spring at the annual conference and one held at the NCHC annual conference.

Through sharing information about honors programs and best honors practices region-wide, the WRHC hopes to create an intellectual, programmatic, and administrative network of resources aimed at helping the region's honors programs grow and thrive.

To become a member, please contact the current Executive Secretary/Treasurer (see the Officers link in the sidebar). The annual dues are $75 per institution.

Current News:

WRHC 2012 conference

	Co-sponsored by the National Collegiate Honors Council, the Grand Canyon Semester (GCS) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) offers a life-changing learning experience in the high mountains of northern Arizona and the deep canyon country of the Colorado Plateau.
	On backcountry field trips, in classrooms and art galleries, around campfires, in traditional hogans, and floating down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, we confront the 21st-century global challenges of managing water in these diverse natural and cultural landscapes.	How can we protect this crown jewel of America's National Park system and still make it available to nearly five million visitors a year? What are the legal and moral rights of the Native peoples whose ancestors lived in this canyon country for thousands of years? How do water issues in the Grand Canyon inform broader global issues relating to policy, science, climate change, aesthetics, and social justice?

New! -- For all programs, directors, coordinators, and students interested in participating in a region-wide service-learning project: please see our REGIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT link. Thank you! – Anne Scott, Executive Secretary, WRHC