Honors College students are chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants who demonstrate exceptional academic skills. They are rewarded for their hard work and achievements with a complete package of financial benefits, including:

• a full tuition scholarship for four years of study;
  
  
• a Lehman scholarship in addition to the above-up to $6000 a year for living expenses, transportation, and other indirect college-related expenses;
  
  
• an expense account for study abroad or other academically enriching experiences;
  
  
• a free laptop computer; and
  
  
• a Cultural Passport for special entrée to concerts, theaters, museums, and other cultural events and institutions in New York City.

Students in the Honors College are challenged to continue their record of achievement and to prepare for top graduate programs as well as for leadership positions in both their professions and their communities.

The core of the program consists of a continuing series of interactions with exceptional faculty. As teachers, mentors, and research partners, these faculty members guide each student's development, provide advice on curriculum and career choices, and open the door to paid internships, fellowships, and other funded opportunities. At the same time, fellow students contribute a diverse range of expertise, as well as viewpoints, that helps to elevate class discussions to high levels of perception and understanding.

Honors College students are expected to pursue a broad-based liberal arts education, maintain a high grade point average, and graduate in four years. They are based at their home colleges, but are designated University Scholars. As freshmen and sophomores, they participate in semester-long seminars with University Scholars from other CUNY colleges. These seminars focus on special aspects of New York City and integrate experiences associated with the Cultural Passport and traditional academic study. They include "The Arts in New York City," "The Peopling of New York," "Science and Technology in New York City," and "New York in the 21st Century."

While in their junior and senior years, Honors College students have the opportunity to study with outstanding faculty at any college in the University. They also normally take "honors" in their majors, which may involve a senior thesis.

About the CUNY Honors College at Lehman

Lehman offers Honors College students a welcoming spirit, an international student body, and a collaborative, supportive environment in which to excel. Honors College students make their academic home in special space that has been created in the College Library.

Lehman offers curricular and other advantages, including:

• Over 50 outstanding undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences, business, computers, teaching, health care, and other professions. Many of these programs, including those in chemistry, dietetics, education, nursing, social work, and speech pathology, are accredited by national professional associations, which set the highest standards for those preparing to enter their respective professions.
  
  
• A teaching faculty second to none, including internationally renowned physicist Eugene Chudnovsky, Oscar-winning composer John Corigliano, and a host of other distinguished artists, scholars, and scientists.
  
  
• A landscaped 37-acre campus, convenient to both public transportation and major highways, with excellent facilities for research, sports and recreation, and studies in the arts, broadcasting, technology, the sciences, and many other areas.
  
  
• Friendship and intellectual fellowship through the Lehman Scholars Program. For the past 20 years, Lehman Scholars have gone on to preeminent graduate and professional programs and become leaders in their fields. As members of this program, Honors College students take classes with other high-achieving students. Every semester, for instance, they meet for an interdisciplinary seminar on a wide range of topics, such as "Life and Love in the South Seas," "Art and Politics," and "The Nineteen Sixties."

 

About the Students

The CUNY Honors College at Lehman includes graduates of public, private, and parochial high schools. Representing equally strong, but very different, backgrounds, they aspire to a wide variety of careers and professions, from law, medicine, and communications to teaching, nursing, and the health professions. Each won notable academic awards in high school, was active in athletic or extracurricular organizations, and was eager for a rigorous intellectual experience in college. Their majors include biology, business, English, computer science, psychology, speech pathology, and physics.

 

About the Director

 

Dr. Gary Schwartz (A.B., Columbia College; B.A., M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge University; Ph.D., Columbia University) is a Greek and Latin scholar, an authority on Homer's Odyssey, Apuleius's Golden Ass, and jazz saxophone, and a published poet. He is the editor of Eight Essays in Classical Humanities and co-author of an index to Kuhner-Stegmann's grammar of the Latin language. A Professor of Languages and Literatures, he directs both the CUNY Honors College at Lehman and the Lehman Scholars Program.

 

How to Apply

The Honors College application is designed to provide information about each applicant's academic record and preparation for a rigorous intellectual experience in college. Admission depends on high school grades, SAT I/ACT scores, an essay, recommendations and, in some cases, an interview. To receive an application, contact CUNY's Office of Admis-sion Services by email at <aonline@uapc.cuny.edu> or call Lehman College at 1-877-LEHMAN-1.

Early Decision Deadline: November 1 (Extended to November 15, for Fall 2005)

Honors College Response Date: December 15

Regular Decision Deadline: December 15

Honors College Response Date: March 15

Please note: All deadlines are postmark deadlines.

 

Early Decision

 

Students may apply to The CUNY Honors College at Lehman for either early decision or regular decision. Applicants who apply for early decision make a binding commitment to attend the Honors College if accepted. Applications for early decision must be submitted to the University Application Processing Center by November 1. Lehman will notify the applicant about his or her status by December 15. At Lehman's discretion, some early decision applicants may be considered for regular decision instead.

 

Regular Decision

Applications for regular decision must be submitted to the University Application Processing Center by December 15. Lehman will notify the applicant about his or her status by March 15. Please note that all supporting documentation for the Honors College application-such as the essay, recommendations, transcripts, and SAT I/ACT scores-must also be received by the deadlines listed above. The Honors College cannot consider late or incomplete applications.

 

 

 

 

For more information on

The CUNY Honors College at Lehman,

Call the Lehman Admissions Office at

1-877-LEHMAN-1 (toll-free)

Or contact Dr. Gary Schwartz, Director, at

(718) 960-8968 or by email at schwartz@lehman.cuny.edu

 

 

 

LEHMAN

C O L L E G E

The City University of New York

 

 

 

250 Bedford Park Blvd.W.

Bronx, New York 10468

www.lehman.edu