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Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Honors Program

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Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Honors Program

Interested in EKU's Honors Program? This page is for you! Students take honors program classes that replace some or all of EKU's general education curriculum.

Founded in 1988, the EKU Honors Program makes the best intellectual resources at EKU available to a limited group of talented and motivated students. Each year, more students from the EKU Honors Program present at the annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council than do students from any other honors program in the nation. Living in the centrally located Burnam Hall and attending numer

ous cultural activities together, EKU Honors students form a tight honors community and make friends that last a lifetime.

09/03/2026

Thursday’s Honors Postcards bring us back across the Atlantic to Latin America. Jay Lillie studied in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she also volunteered with the Red Cross. This photo is of Jay at a cooking class. Also, Angie McNulty used an Honors Odyssey Grant to study Public Health this summer in Costa Rica.

09/02/2026

Honors Postcards Wednesday takes us to continental Europe! Brady Fields and Brooke Boyer accompanied Dr. Liddell on the KIIS Italy program (and here’s Brady in Florence and Brooke in Rome). Megan had an Honors Odyssey Grant that allowed her to spend her summer studying at a university in Milan, Italy. Meanwhile, Paisley (also an Honors Odyssey Grant winner) spent her summer doing medical shadowing in Madrid Spain (and the photo here is of her in Toledo, Spain). Makiah studied this summer in Bregenz, Austria, and this photo is from her side trip across the border to visit Neuschwanstein castle “next door” in Germany. Finally, Carolina studied in Prague, Czechia, and this is a photo of her at the city’s magnificent and historic Spanish Synagogue.

09/01/2026

Our 2026 Honors Summer Postcards series takes us today to the British Isles! Here are Haley and Lauren on their study abroad program’s visit to Stonehenge. Kamorah used an EKU Odyssey Grant to for a summer study program that focused on London’s theatre scene. Emily also had an Honors Odyssey Grant, which she used to help fund a summer internship program working with the staff of Galway Now magazine in Galway, Ireland. Finally, Taylor also studied abroad in Ireland , and she also shared with us this photo of her in Galway.

08/31/2026

Our annual EKU Honors Postcards series starts today! We are celebrating the 2026 summer study-travel experiences of many of our students from EKU Honors. We start today in East Asia, with Annamarie wearing traditional “hanbok” clothing in Seoul, Korea. Lynsey also studied in Seoul—and here she is at the city’s beautiful downtown Jogyesa temple. Sakura did the KIIS Japan+Korea program, and here she is at Nagoya Castle. More EKU Honors summer adventures to come all this week!

08/26/2026

The officer team of the Eastern Honors Association (EHA). The time is now. Planning for the best year yet! An amazing bunch.

08/19/2026

Our EKU Honors Launch 2026 third and final day was epic! We started with morning outdoor team-building at the low-ropes course. We spent the afternoon learning about travel opportunities in EKU Honors, honors seminars and curriculum, and opportunities for leadership and involvement on our campus. Evening brought our EKU Honors Launch closing banquet. Each table at the banquet was "hosted" by one of our amazing EKU Honors alumni, who shared words of wisdom and advice with our new students. Special thanks to our Honors Launch speaker, amazing EKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni member, EKU Foundation Board member, and longtime US State Department diplomat Dr. Deborah Alexander. And special thanks also to our amazing team of sophomore, junior, and senior current honors student "Peer Mentors" who guided our new students through the incredible three-day Honors Launch experience!

08/18/2026

EKU Honors Launch 2026 Day Two (Monday) included the traditional morning group photo (in Honors Launch 2026 T-shirts) and a campus scavenger hunt. Then in the afternoon we had the students' SYKALA impromptu speeches (with a break time visit from the ice cream truck). Finally we closed the day by rocking O'Donnell Auditorium with our Song-and-Dance night with original performances by each of our student family groups!

08/17/2026

Excited to welcome our new incoming students to Honors Launch 2026 for Day One yesterday (Sunday)! Our new honors student family teams met their sophomore/junior/senior Honors Launch Peer Mentors and one another. They also navigated our "human chain" activity and built spaghetti/marshmallow towers!

07/28/2026

EKU Honors assistant director Kevin Watts was back on the recruiting trail this summer with our friends from Eastern Kentucky University Admissions!

07/08/2026

So cool seeing EKU Honors rising senior Emily Kessler's byline all over the websites and social media feeds of Galway Now--the local happenings magazine in Galway, Ireland for which Emily is interning this summer with the help of a Dr. Frank Williams Odyssey Grant from EKU Honors!

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Richmond, KY
40475

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8am - 4:30pm
Friday	8am - 4:30pm

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http://eku.edu/honors, https://linktr.ee/ekuhonors

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