Honors Community

There are two ways to gain admission to Honors Integrative Studies:

• By application: Students who are admitted to Union and have a 3.5 GPA or a 28 or higher on the ACT will be invited to apply for admission. However, students who do not meet these criteria but think they are up to the challenge of Honors work are also encouraged to apply.
• By award: Each year’s winner of the Founders’ Award at the Scholars of Excellence competition and all Kalos Scholarship winners receive an automatic offer of admission.

Students who have applied can expect to receive a decision via email around April 15. Only students who have been formally admitted to the Honors Community may take courses with an HON prefix or declare a Minor in Integrative Studies.

Questions? Email us at honors@uu.edu.

“The Honors Community is an intellectual koinonia* with transformative effects in its members, and through them, in the university, in the church, in the professions, and in local communities.” – Mission Statement

A true koinonia should neither be a closed community, lacking in hospitality or gratitude, nor a totally open one, lacking in intimacy or coherence. For this reason, the fundamental dynamic of Honors koinonia at Union University may be conceived as a supple lucidity: lucid enough that we can seat the table for the feast but supple enough that we can welcome unexpected guests.

*Koinonia comes from the Greek koine, common: communion, association, partnership; fellowship; a gift, donation, or contribution. (See Liddell, Scott, and Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon.)

Conferences for Classical Educators

In the classical Christian tradition, education begins and ends with Christ at the center. Join fellow classical Christian educators for targeted workshops, engaging lectures, and enriching fellowship.

2026: West Tennessee Classical Educators’ Conference (July 8)
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God

This year’s conference theme comes from the title of an important book on the history of education by Jean Leclercq. In it, Leclercq describes how the richly formative education provided in Western monasteries fostered both love of God and love of learning, two aims shared by contemporary classical Christian education. Join fellow classical educators from homeschools and traditional schools as we gather around this theme — the Love of Learning and the Desire for God — for a day of targeted workshops, enriching fellowship, and engaging lectures, including a keynote address by Dr. Junius Johnson.