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Leadership Opportunities

The Honors College provides several student leadership opportunities available for current students, including but not limited to:

Affinity Groups

The Honors College Affinity Groups are culture-based and work in collaboration with the Rutgers Cultural Centers. These groups are student led and are intended to provide students with a place to discuss issues directly impacting their experiences at the Honors College and the greater Rutgers community.

Ambassadors

Honors Ambassadors are current students who share their experiences and stories with prospective students and their families. Ambassadors volunteer in providing tours of the honors spaces at 5 Seminary Place, connecting with prospective students at events such as showcases, open house, and other special on and off campus events, and sometimes representing Rutgers Honors at their former high schools.

Changemaking Mentors

Changemaking Community Mentors are student leaders who help to engage Honors College students in shared digital experiences that directly connect to the Honors College mission. Mentors lead programs, generate discussions, and connect with students on one of four Changemaking Community themes: Active Allyship for Social and Racial Justice, Career with Purpose, Culture & Creativity, and Douglass Honors College Changemakers.

Generation HC Program

The Generation HC Program (Gen HC) engages, celebrates, and supports first-generation Honors College students throughout their first year at college. From the opportunity to move into the Honors College before the rest of the first-year class, to access to a yearlong Gen HC Mentor, specific Gen HC programming, a tailored Byrne seminar, and more, first-generation Honors College students—known as Gen HC Fellows—get the support they need to help transition to college and succeed.

HC Serves Leadership Team

The HC Serves Leadership Team is a student-led group with the goal of providing the Honors College student population with community service opportunities based on the HC Serves service learning model, the integration of learning objectives with community service, and the mission of curiosity, knowledge, and purpose. 

Honors College Media Team

The Honors College Media Team is dedicated to capturing life in the Honors College community through the eyes of its students. Made up of photographers, videographers, graphic designers, writers, and other creative individuals, the Media Team contributes content to the Honors College website, student blog, social media platforms, newsletters, and marketing materials.

Residence Hall Association

Residence Hall Association (RHA) is the largest on-campus organization at Rutgers University and the largest organization of its kind in the country. Each residence hall has an RHA that is comprised of current residents who take on leadership roles to be the voice of the building’s residential population.