When junior Mikala Capage opened an email about the Goldwater Scholarship she applied for, she was prepared. And then she was ecstatic. It was the second time she had applied for the Goldwater; the first email resulting in disappointment.
“I’m very grateful for scholarship support,” says Clark Honors College senior Xitlali Torres, recipient of the John and Betty Soreng Presidential Scholarship. No assistance, she says, would have meant no college (or crushing debt).
Throughout her “zig-zagging” career, one thing has consistently guided her: a passion for utilizing technology to spread the stories of marginalized groups. Her CHC thesis research, she said, helped her discover this north star.
Dr. George Barganier’s studies and research have addressed the social, racial, and political power structures that affect curricula and policies in education. This winter, he’s a part of CHC’s Visiting Fellowship in Equity, Justice, and Inclusion program.
On November 29, 1847, Presbyterian missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and 12 others near Walla Walla died in an attack that came to be known as the Whitman Massacre.
New Faculty-in-Residence Professor Lisa Wolverton describes her teaching goals at Clark Honors College as “working to make space for medieval stories.”
As research assistants to Acting Clark Honors College Dean Carol Stabile, Malia Mulligan and Morning Glory Ritchie got an opportunity that many undergraduates don’t—to contribute to the research and production of a digital book.
As a high school student in small-town Monmouth, Oregon, Robert Ousterhout ’73, felt unchallenged. But everything changed when he started attending Clark Honors College, and went in the opposite direction.
In fall of 2020, Clark Honors College began to think about how to provide courses that would help CHC students deepen their engagement with the histories and contemporary manifestations of anti-Black racism.
Scenes from New Student Orientation, 2021, Photos by Jasper Zhou, CHC Communications. On September 21, Clark Honors College welcomed their newest incoming class. Welcome class of 2025!
Two UO students have been awarded prestigious Udall Undergraduate Scholarships, a first for the university and all the more rare because it is the second award for one of the Ducks.
Research faculty members and students from the UO’s first-in-the-nation comics studies minor, including CHC's Audra McNamee, bring complex concepts to life through illustrations.
When First-Year CHC Advisor Angela Rovak applied to college in 2005, she had no idea her FAFSA score meant that nearly all of her tuition would be paid for by federal financial aid. That was because she had no idea what a FAFSA score was.
“We drove down to Berkeley, I think, for a tournament last year. We sang Shakira, Taylor Swift and all the really popular ‘bop’ songs,” B-Team Mock Trial Captain and Clark Honors College sophomore Kat Finseth recounted with a grin. “That’s what brings you together as a team and what I love about mock trial.”
