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"My years here have undoubtedly been my
most formative life experience. Through the faculty's attempts
to cultivate my thinking and encourage my personal growth, I've
been able to achieve goals which literally seemed unattainable
to me four years ago…to metamorphisize from someone who assumed
she would someday teach like the rest of her family into a candidate
for the Rhodes Scholarship is a tremendous leaf possible only
through the supportive faculty and fellow students in the Honors
College."
Elizabeth Baran,Class of 2000
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Extraordinary achievements - especially for a
newer program at an affordable state university
The RECHC opened its doors to a pioneering freshmen class in
Fall 1996 - so we've only had a few years to achieve great things.
Here are some of the highlights:
- In Fall 1998 three of our students were admitted to St. Edmunds
College at Oxford University. We don't have a formal exchange
program with Oxford, and St Edmunds only admitted a total of
thirty "foreign" students that year. Ours were the
only ones from a state university. Since then we have continued
to send at least one student to Oxford every year. They have
all earned excellent grades.
- One of our pre-law majors decided Oxford wasn't as good for
his major as Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland, so he competed
for admission there. Others studied in Edinburgh, Scotland and
Sheffield, England. These are top universities with highly competitive
admission.
- We have only had three classes of juniors thus far, and one
has to be a junior to compete for the prestigious Truman Scholarship
in public service. Only a few students are chosen from each
state to compete for the state award. In Pennsylvania there
is a great deal of competition, and most of the finalists are
from Ivy League schools. Two out of three years we had a Truman
finalist from the RECHC.
- The RECHC has only had two years to compete for a Fulbright
Scholarship, but we are two for two. Lori Felker studied film
at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar.
Erica Shafran is studying linguistics in Vienna, Austria.
- Many of our graduates from the class of 2000 elected to go
directly into graduate school. All but one of them received
so much in scholarship awards that the cost of graduate school
was completely taken care of. And this record includes two students
in the field of psychology where just getting into graduate
school is a big accomplishment.
- Our students are finding top internships and getting good
jobs. Two RECHC students have completed internships with NASDAQ
- one working directly for NASDAQ President, Alfred Berkeley.
Washington internships have included the State Department, several
foreign embassies, and a number of social action groups. IUP
has an ongoing program of internships with state government
in Harrisburg. One student's job with Price Waterhouse in Paris
presently is to spearhead the audits of national banks in three
of the republics of the former Soviet Union.
- If med school is your ambition, your chances of succeeding
here are excellent. Some top students are admitted to IUP under
a program that guarantees medical school admission as long as
they maintain high grades. But other students who decided on
medicine after they enrolled are also being admitted - two in
our first senior class with major scholarships, which will leave
them without the usual student loans that plague med students.
Lots of schools will pull out their stars to showcase to prospective
students. We've taken the opposite approach and want to show you
every one of our graduates for 2000 & 2001 and their achievements
at the Robert E. Cook Honors College. We think this illustrates
our point perfectly that here everyone is important and everyone
has the support to achieve great things.
Click here
to see the achievements for the Robert E. Cook Honors College
classes of 2000 & 2001. (Adobe Acrobat Required)
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