News & Announcments

Emerging Leaders Workshop

The Honors Program's annual "Emerging Leaders Workshop" certificate program will be held over the weekend of February 19-21. All events take place on campus and at no cost to you! Designed for freshmen and sophomores, ELW features small group sessions led by our Honors mentors and plenary sessions led by some extraordinary young professionals who are giving up their weekend to be with us. All Honors freshmen students are required to attend. Sophomores are invited to participate if they did not come last year. Please read and fill out the attached form which can be found on the students page and bring it to the Honors office at 308-310 Gibbs Hall ASAP. For more information about ELW, stop by the Honors Program office at 308-310 Gibbs Hall, or contact Mr. Hairston at 285-2102.

38th Annual Southern Regional Honors Council Conference

The Honors Program will sponsor several students to attend the Southern Regional Honors Council Conference in Greenville, SC on March 25 – 27, 2010. The theme is "Enduring. . .Prevailing: Honors as a Prism of the Human Spirit." Only students who are interested in presenting oral and/or poster research presentations will be supported. You may e-mail inquiries and/or abstracts (send abstracts as an attachment) to Ms. Favreau (kfavreau@ncat.edu) if interested.

In the body of your e-mail, indicate the following: (1) meal preference (e.g., vegetarian, etc.); (2) presentation format (e.g., poster, panel, or individual podium presentation). Please respond no later than January 29th.

Upcoming Events & Meetings

The Origins of Proslavery Christianity with Charles Irons, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at Elon University—PIZZA WILL BE SERVED
Monday, February 22nd at 12:00 noon (Bluford Library Room 258):

Southern white Protestants were the ablest defenders of race-based slavery, an evil institution under which four million men, women, and children labored by 1860. At the same time, Sunday morning was not the "most segregated hour" in the antebellum period, and white Protestants worshipped in the same communities with those whose bondage they justified by faith. Based on his research in Virginia, Charles Irons demonstrates some of the changes in the ways in which white Virginia Protestants thought about slavery, changes that ironically were almost always in reaction to the spiritual initiatives of black Virginians.

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Get Involved with Derwin Montgomery, Winston Salem State University Senior and Youngest Member of the Winston-Salem City Council.
Wednesday, February 24th at 7:00 PM (McNair Auditorium 240):

Derwin Montgomery, a senior at Winston-Salem State University, won the East Ward seat on the Winston-Salem City Council on November 3, 2009. Join this dynamic young leader as he shares his journey from Honors Student to City Councilor, and shares ideas about how A&T students can become more involved in their community. As fellow WSSU student Sharrod Patterson says, “History starts. It started with Obama, and it moved on over to Derwin. And hopefully [we can] keep that student spirit going, voting and actually trying to make a difference."

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The Signifyin’ Tradition Continues: From Spiritual Folk Song to Choral Arrangement with Pat Trice, Ph.D., Music Director Spiritual Renaissance Singers (assisted by the Spiritual Renaissance Singers)
Monday, March 1st at 7:00 PM (Merrick Auditorium 125):

Musical signifyin’ involves borrowing, varying, and reworking existing music into newer forms so that the listener gains a more intense understanding of the referenced music. Using two musical characteristics, rhythm and tone quality, this study will show how these both morphed from the original spiritual folk song to unaccompanied choral arrangements. Visit http://www.srsg99.com for more information.

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