Expand Your Knowledge
The overarching purpose of the Oregon Tech Honors Program (HP) is to provide highly motivated Oregon Tech students with a complementary academic curriculum and a collection of extracurricular learning experiences that promote a more well-rounded future career professional, a socially responsible person, and connected and liberally educated student: this is the idea of the professional as a person. A professional, understood in this way, is a person connected to many communities, locally and globally, scholarly and civic-oriented, and is a person who strives to make the most of those connections with others to lead a more meaningful life.
Join the Honors Program
How do I know if I'm eligible?
Minimum requirements for admission as a traditional first-year student include the following criteria, but do not guarantee admission:
- Eligible students on the Klamath Falls campus with three years left to their degree may apply
- Preferred minimum high school or transfer grade point average (GPA) of 3.5
How will I benefit?
- Honors Program Diploma presented at graduation
- Honors Seminars are capped at 25 students
- Honors sections of select courses taught in innovative ways by Honors Program Core Faculty
- Priority registration for all classes for Honors Program students in good standing
- Advising by Honors Program Core Faculty who guide students throughout their time at Oregon Tech
- Special activities, events, and field trips at minimal or no cost to students
- Potential to participate in community service projects
My personal and professional lives have always been centered on Outdoor Experiences. As the director of the Environmental Sciences program at Oregon Tech, I get to combine my love of nature and technical skills to promote data driven decision making in natural resource management. I have experience teaching the following courses: ENV data analysis, careers and professionalism, physical geography, intro to general chemistry, general biology, nutrition, environmental education, human anatomy, backpacking, intro to GIS, water resources, stream water chemistry, riparian assessment, and pollinator ecology. My current research is centered on pollinators. I co-advise the Beekeeping club on campus, and we use our apiary as a living laboratory for undergraduate research. In addition to honeybees, our students are conducting native pollinator surveys. Data from these ongoing studies will be used to track shifting phenological trends in response to climate change and increased forest fire activity within the Klamath Basin. When not on campus, you may find me with my family on the trail, riding my road bike, walking my two French bulldogs, playing ukulele, or paddling on the scenic waterways of southern Oregon.
