Honors College
Scholars, writers, teachers, and those formed in the liberal arts tradition
The Honors College Hall forms men and women in the Great Books tradition — small tutorials, deep reading, and whole-person formation after the model of Oxford and Cambridge, brought local.
The liberal arts college is disappearing. Hundreds of small colleges have closed or consolidated in the last two decades. The ones that remain are under constant pressure to justify the humanities in vocational terms — to explain why someone should read Aristotle when they could be learning a marketable skill. The result is a higher education system that produces graduates who are credentialed but not formed: technically capable, morally unmoored, unable to think about anything larger than their own career.
The classical renewal movement has understood this for thirty years. The explosion of classical K–12 schools has produced a generation of students formed in the Great Books, trained in logic and rhetoric, and hungry for a college experience that continues what they have already begun. The problem is that the classical college — the place where the tutorial model is actually practiced, where a student reads Homer and Aquinas with a tutor who knows him by name — does not exist in most communities. The classical school produces the student. There is nowhere local for him to go.
The Honors College Hall is the answer. It is not a homeschool co-op or an online certificate program. It is a community of students engaged in sustained, rigorous formation in the Western intellectual tradition — in their own place, with tutors drawn from the classical renewal networks, awarding credits and degrees through accredited university partners. The student who completes it is ready for graduate school, law school, medicine, ministry, or the work of rebuilding the institutions of his own community. Formation of that depth can go anywhere.
Accredited Programs from Partner Universities
Programs available through the CHI catalog. Offered through Hall dual-enrollment at accredited partner universities.
Bachelor of Arts — Liberal Arts
Great Books, rhetoric, philosophy, theology, and the Western intellectual tradition. The foundational degree for students pursuing graduate study, law, ministry, or a life of serious intellectual engagement.
Bachelor of Arts — Humanities
Literature, history, philosophy, and theology woven into a coherent formation program. For students who will teach, write, lead, or serve in roles that require cultural and moral literacy.
Associate of Arts — General Studies
Two-year foundation in the liberal arts — logic, rhetoric, history, and literature. Transfer pathway to a bachelor's program or a direct entry point into professional formation.
Great Books Dual Credit Track
College-level Great Books courses for high school students in classical schools. Seamless continuation of the K–12 classical curriculum into accredited college credit.