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LAS Distinction and Recognition
Dean’s List | College Latin Honors in LAS | Bronze Tablet | James Scholar Graduation Honors | LAS Honors Ceremony
The successful completion of an honors program is noted on your transcripts as well as on your diploma. These acknowledgments of work well done are recognitions and distinctions you can share in pursuit of future endeavors.
Dean’s List
The Dean’s List is prepared each semester to honor all students whose grade-point average (GPA) for that semester ranks in the upper 20 percent of their college. The minimum GPA establishing eligibility for the LAS Dean’s List in 2011-2012 is 3.70. Other eligibility criteria include completion of at least 14 hours of course work in which traditional letter grades are earned (i.e., excludes courses graded credit/no credit, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, and test-based credit that is graded pass/fail), and any course work completed through study abroad, subject to these same limitations. No consideration is given for the Dean’s List until final traditional grades are in for courses designated I and DFR. If you believe you should be placed on the Dean’s List as a result of a grade change or a grade received more than a month after the end of the semester, notify the LAS Honors Office to ensure that corrective action is taken.
College Latin Honors in LAS
Based on December 2010-August 2011 LAS graduates, the following GPAs may be used to determine LAS College Honors on graduation lists: December 2011-August 2012.
- (Top 3 percent) Summa Cum Laude—3.95
- (Top 7 percent) Magna Cum Laude—3.88
- (Top 12 percent) Cum Laude—3.80
To earn College Latin Honors, a student is required to have both the appropriate GPA and to have completed ONE of the following:
- 25 honors hours, OR
- 35 advanced hours, OR
- Departmental Distinction.
The minimum must be met by both the comprehensive University GPA (including transfer work) and the cumulative GPA of work taken on this campus. All semesters count for Latin Honors.
Bronze Tablet
This recognition is awarded to the top 3 percent of students in each college of the University. Their names are inscribed on a Bronze Tablet that hangs in the Main Library. Students are notified of their eligibility by the College of LAS Student Academic Affairs Office.
James Scholar Graduation Honors
James Scholar Graduation Honors is recognition awarded to students who have fully completed the four-year LAS James Scholar Honors Program. Ordinarily, the white cords that represent James Scholar Graduation Honors are awarded to senior James Scholars who have completed 24 hours of honors credit (minimum of two courses for honors credit per academic year over four years or a substituted “honors event”), have maintained a qualifying cumulative Illinois GPA or higher each academic year, and have been certified as a James Scholar for each year of the four years of their attendance at Illinois (based on graduation at the end of eight semesters). [Students who self-nominate as sophomores and who fully complete the program as certified James Scholars (sophomore, junior, and senior years) may petition to be considered for James Scholar Graduation Honors.)]
LAS Honors Ceremony
Students who graduate with James Scholar Graduation Honors and other select honors/awards are invited to participate in a spring ceremony in which LAS recognizes their achievements.
The ceremony acknowledges senior James Scholars, Bronze Tablet recipients, and those honored with departmental or college awards or scholarships. The Honors Ceremony is usually held on the first Sunday in May.
Invited students and their families are notified by mail at their campus and permanent addresses. Invited students will be sent further registration instructions by mail.