PHOTO BY JONATHAN SINTORA, STAFF WRITER
STORY BY ALEXA WEBER, SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Students who join the Honors Program at Cypress College, find themselves more involved in their education and community.
The Honors Program uses a variety of requirements to expose its members to different groups and events that improve the world around them.
The Honors Counseling course assigns a group service learning project that requires their students to work with their peers to find and improve different aspects of the school and community.
Lauren Chao, a Public Health major, partnered with two classmates to create a poster advertising the shared goals between the Honors Club and the Pride Center.
This flyer illustrates how the community Honors Club strives to represent itself as a safe place for people of all different backgrounds and personal lives to come together and achieve higher education.
Chao said, “[I] definitely felt intimidated coming into a new, unfamiliar campus; however, being amongst other like-minded, motivated students made it easier for me to come out of my shell.”
Beyond the comfort of the community, the program has provided her, Chao also found herself participating in more events on campus as a result of the Honors Club.
She said, “Through class discussion, social events, volunteer opportunities, and more, I feel so much more connected to the campus and community.”
Chao’s experience aligns with many of the other members of the Honors Club and the program noticeably helps students involve themselves in the communities around them.
