Director, Honors Program

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Director of the Honors Program
Dept/Division: Academic Affairs

Bucks County Community College seeks an enterprising, intellectually curious, and mentorship-focused scholar to join our vibrant community to lead our honors program to the next level. Building on the College’s strong academic and cultural offerings, collaborating with deans and faculty across the college, and taking advantage of the rich opportunities for intellectual and cultural engagement in our region, the Director will position Honors@Bucks as a community of scholars that not only provides rigorous courses, but also serves as an intellectual hub and home for academically high-achieving students. We seek an individual with the ability to recruit students, foster community among students and faculty, establish and strengthen relationships with honor society leaders in regional high schools and honors directors at partner transfer institutions, connect students to opportunities within and outside of the College, and mentor students to help them make academic decisions, assume challenges, grow intellectually, and transfer to partner institutions where their intellectual abilities and educational aspirations will be met. The Director of Honors@Bucks will impact students’ lives long into the future by helping them develop habits of scholarly disposition, disciplined inquiry, and rigorous discourse as routine ways of engaging with content, approaching challenges and problems, and influencing the world.

The Director of the Honors Program fosters a scholarly community among honors students and faculty members and provides strategic vision, administrative leadership, and day-to-day management of Honors@Bucks—a comprehensive community college honors program. The Director is responsible for building and sustaining a comprehensive program that serves academically high-achieving students through challenging curricula, robust co-curricular programming, and collaborative opportunities across the college. The Director actively recruits students, guides them through their experience at Bucks, and mentors them in determining the next steps of their academic career. The Director develops relationships with appropriate leaders at four-year institutions to foster honors-specific opportunities for transfer and scholarships and participates in appropriate honors organizations at the regional and national levels. This is a twelve-month, full-time administrative appointment reporting to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. 

The Honors Program (https://www.bucks.edu/academics/honors/)  

Honors@Bucks is for intellectually curious and high-achieving students who desire an academically demanding and enriching experience similar to a liberal arts college or a university honors program. Admission to the program requires a 3.25 or 3.5 GPA depending on the student’s status. To earn an honors associate degree, students complete six honors courses with a minimum 3.0 GPA and maintain an overall cumulative 3.25 GPA.  

To meet these requirements, honors students complete designated honors sections of general education courses and honors-by-contract courses. In honors sections, students utilize primary sources, ask probing questions, search for answers to perennial issues that have challenged generations of thinkers, and conduct and present their own research and original works. For courses within the major, students complete a contract with the instructor through which the student will be assigned supplemental work requiring scholarly research, critical analyses, working with primary source materials, and/or submission of original products or research papers.   

The education of honors students is further enriched by participation in a r