Kathwari Honors Student News
Farooq and Farida Kathwari endow WCSU Honors Program
WCSU student honored with 2015 Newman Civic Fellowship
Jessica Lin, presidential Scholar expands her world at Western
Colleen Mair and Nicole Mair are finalists in competitive policy debate
The Kathwari Honors Program at WestConn
In 1987, the honors program at Western Connecticut State University was founded to foster and nurture academic excellence among outstanding students in all four schools of the university. It is built on the fundamental assumption that knowledge is an open set of questions and ideas to be explored, rather than a closed set of facts to be memorized.
WestConn’s Kathwari Honors Program is arguably one of the more innovative programs in the country. It is designed to expose students to fundamental modes of inquiry found in various academic fields, and to illustrate the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to exploring a topic or issue.
“The program has two pathways: a complete program open to first-year students and first-semester sophomores, and an associate program option available to juniors and seniors.”
Watch a video on the Honors programSpotlight: Kathwari Honors Program
Dena Virzera
Political Science and Justice and Law (Legal Studies)
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Contact Information
Christopher Kukk,
Ph.D.
Director of the Kathwari Honors Program
Kathwari Honors House 102F
203-837-9501
kukkc@wcsu.edu
Jessica Lin
Assistant Director of the Kathwari Honors Program
Kathwari Honors House 102D
203-837-9502
linj@wcsu.edu
Student Assistants
Kathwari Honors House, 102E
203-837-3226
honors@wcsu.edu
