Passport Program

Each spring semester, the Honors College coordinates the Passport Program, an optional offshoot of the required First-Year Experience Program. The goals of the program are to further connect our students to the Lubbock and Texas Tech communities and strengthen their critical reflection skills, as well as to promote more effective communication skills in a non-classroom setting

Students just coming out of their first fall semester in the Honors College choose either an Arts & Academics Track or a Community Service Track and log ten to fifteen hours a month for February, March, and April. At the end of the first two months, they submit a written reflection of their experiences and are then eligible for a sizable award to be applied to the next fall's tuition!

For a list of the activities available to our Arts & Academics Track students, take a look at the blog created by A&A Track Coordinator, Clara Bush.

FYE Program Highlights Undergraduate Research

Each fall semester, the Honors College First-Year Experience (FYE) Program highlights the various Honors opportunities available to our incoming students. This year, two Honors FYE Mentors, Cade Stull and Joe Herbert, created a short video to highlight one of the most important opportunities available to our students, undergraduate research.

Cade followed and filmed Joe working as a researcher at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Cancer Center through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Program. The video is both informative and entertaining: