Welcome to The Kittredge Honors Program Website

Our Mission

The Kittredge Honors Program (KHP) is a residential academic program within the general Honors Program. Qualified first-year students who are invited to participate in the Honors Program may elect to live in an honors part of the Kittredge residence hall complex. Space is limited, so interested students are urged to respond promptly to their invitations. Selection is on a first come first serve basis. There is a fee to participate in this residence program.

KHP provides the flavor of a small liberal arts college within the context of the vast resources of a major university. As an incoming student, we offer you the opportunity to associate with other bright, highly motivated students in the College of Arts and Sciences, becoming part of a special community of peers and faculty. By sharing a common living space, you will more easily find, interact with, and learn from other good students. This relationship is enhanced by the intimate environment of the KHP classroom, located in the dorm building itself, and by the presence of the KHP director's office.

The sort of education articulated here requires an actual place... It requires conversation, human beings face to face with each other, a condition that neither typed words nor even transmitted images can reproduce.

It requires presence (though to explain why that is so would demand a metaphysical inquiry in the difference between reality and virtuality). Liberal education needs classrooms, quads and coffeeshops, all the appurtenances of a concrete community of learning.

It needs residences where students, especially freshmen, may learn the ways of close conversational friendship (no matter what less-approved ways they will also learn). It needs smallness, so that people may run into each other often for spontaneous conversation. One mark of a liberal school is that its members carry the life of the intellect into casual conversation without the least shame...

"The American College as the the Place for Liberal Learning"
Eva T.H. Brann

The KHP Website will be under construction throughout the summer, with more official and Student Handbook content on the way. Check back for more updates!