Honors Program Mission Statement

The Honors Program of Bemidji State University offers motivated students an intellectually challenging, supportive environment that encourages trans-diciplinary learning, academic excellence, and service to the global community. This is accomplished by supporting the development of:

• A passion for learning
• The ability to reason, integrate, and synthesize ideas
• Self-reflectiveness
• An ability to work independently and in groups
• A capacity to tolerate ambiguity
• An appreciation of multiple perspectives and diversity of ideas
• The practice of creative and unconventional thinking