Resolutions and Revolutions

 Vol 5 No 8   

Well, here we are again - the start of a new semester.  A semester that is already strange.  It's day three and we've already had a snow day and a delayed start day.  We are still largely remote.  The pandemic is still ongoing, though there is hope in the form of vaccines.  We may be around the corner, but there is still a ways to go.  The future continues to be uncertain and yet spring WILL come.

A new semester, a new year, a new president.  We don't know what the future will hold, but I can tell you at least one thing that is coming.

I'm going to be better.  Honors is struggling a bit, as many of you may know.  Colleges in general are struggling.  We are not really designed for this kind of learning and community can be hard to build when you spend each day at home and your classmates feel like just a square on a screen.  But we are still here and I plan to work harder to keep this blog updated.  To find ways for us to 'gather' and see one another and learn outside of the classrooms.  Your Honors faculty remain committed to the mission of Honors and what it means for the students in it.  We are going to have speakers once more.  We are going to have new ways for you earn Honors points, starting with an opportunity this Friday evening.  We are going to get you a T-shirt if you don't have one.  We are going to have a virtual Convocation this semester, because we missed it so sorely last fall.  We are still here and we will endure.  Thrive, even, if we can.  Will YOU be part of our endeavors?

Please do, because we need you.  And maybe you need us, too....perhaps in ways you haven't even considered yet.  

Welcome to the Spring 2021 Semester.  Let's roll up our sleeves and see what we've got, eh?

-T

This Friday is the first opportunity to earn an Honors point! We have an artist's work on display at FLCC's ArtSpace36 and said artist will be giving a virtual talk and hosting an opening reception this Friday at 5:00.  Click on this link to find out all the information, including WebEx information needed for the event.