Welcome

As Dean of the Honors College at Baylor, I am pleased to welcome you to our Web site. The Honors College is an innovative venture in higher education at Baylor, a venture that provides a number of exciting opportunities for highly motivated undergraduates. Some 80 percent of incoming students at Baylor plan to pursue study in graduate or professional schools. The sort of intellectual skills and virtues fostered in the Honors College -- arts of rigorous thinking and clarity of expression in written and verbal media -- will serve you well, no matter what professional path or career you pursue. You will develop habits of learning, of criticism, and of judgment.

The creation of the Honors College is yet another sign of Baylor's commitment to excellence in undergraduate instruction, a commitment grounded in the assumption of the unity of truth and the compatibility of faith and reason.

As part of a community of faculty and students who esteem wonder and learning as distinguishing marks of what it means to be human, you will gain an understanding of your intellectual heritage and a perspective from which you can better understand yourself and others in the contemporary world.

We hope that you will find the information you need on our Web site. To ask questions or receive further information, please contact us.

Dean Thomas Hibbs
Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture