Faithful inquiry & formative friendship
Honors at Union is a multidisciplinary, inquiry-driven learning community committed to whole-person discipleship (body, mind, and soul).
Honors at Union is a multidisciplinary, inquiry-driven learning community committed to whole-person discipleship (body, mind, and soul).
Honors was a critical part of my development and STEAM education at Union. Discipline Specific Honors provided an opportunity to go deeper technically in areas of personal interest, but General Honors and community involvement provided an opportunity to learn intellectual honesty, empathy, and creativity. I gained the key ability to work with others whose ideas and opinions clash with my own, not only to be kind and cordial, but also to actively work towards a difficult objective. Utilizing diverse experiences, especially when collaboration is difficult, has proven essential to beautiful designs, creative solutions, and personal development.
— Matthew Owen ('19), Engineer for the Boeing Company and graduate student in Aerospace Systems Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
The way the professors live stays with me vividly. Their attentiveness to and love for students, their wonder at the material, and their Christlikeness have become models of virtue for me... I have learned under some incredibly zealous, humble, faithful, hopeful, love-ful teachers, and my soul has been and will continue for years to be turned nearer to God because of them.
— graduate survey ('16)
Participation in the Union honors program provided the opportunity to engage big questions in a vibrant intellectual community... The experience has provided valuable perspective in the world of science and medicine so focused on empirical information but sometimes lacking consideration of meaning.
— Philip Kurtzweil, MD ('15)