Asbury Honors Program Welcomes Students for New School Year

August 28, 2024

The Asbury University Honors Program (AUHP) welcomes 22 new students this year (with 92 total members). AUHP invites students to join a community of scholars engaged in a themed enrichment experience which gives particular focus to the concepts of human value and virtue. 

“The AUHP allows students to pursue the spiritual, moral, social, and ethical dimensions of the human experience; to explore human problem solving, ethical dilemmas, identity, and self, and to relate these human questions to the areas of work, career, family, and society,” said director of the Honors Program Dr. Paul Nesselroade ’89. “This intellectual and moral exploration is anchored within the rich perspective of historic, orthodox Christianity.”

Admission to the AUHP offers yearly tuition scholarships, a travel stipend for study abroad experience, special access to colloquium speakers, support for a culminating research project, internship, or creative product generation, and an Honors transcript. 

Upcoming Honors speakers for the 2024-25 school year  include Dr. Nadya Williams (Alligators, Crocodiles, and Cultural Christians) on September 16 at 7 p.m., Russ Ramsey (Pursuing Perfection: Michelangelo’s David and our Hunger for Glory) on November 11 at 7 p.m., Dr. Abigail Favale (The Genesis of Gender) on January 22 at 7 p.m., and Dr. Brent Seales (How We Did it! Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls Without Opening Them) on February 4 at 7 p.m.

In the past, the AUHP welcomed the following speakers: Dr. John Lennox (professor emeritus of mathematics at Oxford University), Dr. John Dickson (distinguished professor in public Christianity at Wheaton College), Dr. Jennifer Frey (professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa), Dr. Carl Trueman (professor of biblical & religious studies at Grove City College), authors Dr. Karen Swallow Prior and Kaitlyn Schiess, and more.

“Asbury University’s living and learning community is an ideal setting for an integrative, rigorous, curricular experience reflecting the width and depth of studies and programs exploring the origin and implications of human value,” Nesselroade said. “The program aspires to comprehend more fully and accurately the Imago Dei and to educate students in light of this truth so that they may live virtuous lives and serve others more abundantly.”

Application to the AUHP is by invitation only. The deadline to apply is the first Friday of January of the year before students plan to enter. For more information about program eligibility, contact Admissions (admissions@asbury.edu), or email the AUHP director at honors@asbury.edu.