Kathwari
Honors Program

Kathwari Honors Students, Staff, and Faculty with Mr. Kathwari at the Honors Meet & Greet

Kathwari Honors Students and Minorities in Medicine Students at Leadership Seminar in Health and Medicine with Dr. Bill Begg at Danbury Hospital

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at WCSU

Kathwari Honors Students on WCSU Day of Service in the Jane Goodall Center Permaculture Garden

Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee at WCSU with Peace Jam Staff and Students

KATHWARI HONORS PROGRAM

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Innovative learning & entrepreneurial thinking in a compassionate community

The Kathwari Honors Program at Western Connecticut State University fosters and nurtures academic and civic excellence among outstanding WCSU students. The Program consists of highly interactive and interdisciplinary classes and 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.

Kathwari Honors students have graduated in less than four years and have become Fulbright Scholars. Our students have received offers to the world’s leading graduate schools including Harvard, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, Texas A&M and Emory University’s School of Law and from employers such as The Hartford, Ernst & Young and many others.

The program has two pathways: a full program open to first-year students and first-semester sophomores, and an associate program option available to juniors and seniors.

In April 2015, the Kathwari Honors Program received a $1 million endowment from Mr. and Mrs. Farooq Kathwari and celebrated the renaming of Alumni Hall as the Irfan Kathwari Honors House.