Are you looking to have a teaching experience that is unmatched? Are you searching for the highest impact opportunities to make your classes and teaching outcomes exceptional, where you can engage undergraduate students in the highest levels of our premier research and teaching university?
If so, then teaching in the Honors College curriculum is for you.
Rutgers University Honors College
Our Honors College expands on the 250+ year legacy of education and over fifty years of honors education at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, and brings it into the 21st Century by redefining interdisciplinary education, elevating intellectual integrity, and enrolling students from across the liberal arts and professional schools, to study and work together. We then bring them, collectively, into your classes in order to tackle important issues as well as lasting questions, and to engage in the strategic advantages that only Rutgers can provide because of its exceptional faculty and far-reaching resources.
Attracting some of the highest achieving students from throughout New Jersey, the U.S., and the world, the Rutgers University Honors College is a community of 4,000 students and over 200 faculty where intellectual curiosity, hands-on knowledge, inclusion, collaboration, and giving back are central to its philosophy and allow you to teach in ways that are dynamic, experimental, and innovative.
Inspired. Empowered. Connected.
We invite you to join us in our mission to expand what an interdisciplinary education can be by working with students who are curious and driven. We welcome your ideas, your knowledge and research, and your dedication to teaching and mentoring as a means to developing and enriching our undergraduate students' knowledge. There is a whole community of extraordinary students ready to make important contributions to their world, through an introduction to your work and hte development of their personal and intellectual purpose.
Ways to Get Involved
- Teaching an Honors College Mission-based Course in your School: Honors Colloquium (SAS), Readings in Biology (SEBS), The Business of Everything (RBS), Interplay (MGSA), or IDEA (SOE).
- Teaching Honors Courses: Interdisciplinary Honors Seminars, COIL, LGBTQ+ Learning Collaborative, Embedded Study Abroad, and Cross-Cultural Communities (CCC) sections
- Teaching Honors College Byrne Seminars
- Serve as an Honors College Faculty Member or Faculty Fellow
- Being an Honors Faculty and Professional Mentor
- Serving as an advisor for an Honors College Capstone Project
- Contributing to the Honors College as a Faculty Fellow (Residential or Affiliated)
- Creating co-curricular programs specific to your research interests
Resources
QUESTIONS?
Please contact J.D. Bowers, Dean of the Honors College.