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Periclean Honors Forum
Skidmore College is a small, highly selective liberal arts college
that fosters academic inquiry and creative thought and expression.
Honors Forum promotes these goals. Skidmore founded the
Honors Forum in 1997 as an inclusive community of highly
motivated students who have promise to become student leaders
and globally informed citizens. Our goal is to encourage students
to take ownership of their academic and co-curricular education
and to reflect meaningfully on their personal and professional
goals. The Honors Forum invites all first- and second-year students
with a 3.5 GPA to apply to the Forum.
Honors Forum introduces extraordinary rigor into academic
programs as students consider complex questions and examine
sophisticated materials. Honors Forum students develop what we
refer to as "'the life of the mind"' by working alongside their
faculty on research projects in labs, at field sites, in libraries, and
in studios, often helping to shape the curriculum with which they
engage. The Forum promotes and supports student-organized co-
curricular activities (e.g. lectures and panel discussions) and
leadership and civic engagement opportunities where students
guide fellow peers, faculty, and staff within the Skidmore
community and beyond. We also encourage all students at
Skidmore College to take an Honors course, add-on, or
independent study to become invested in a community of scholars
and leaders.
