Celebrating April 2021 Honors Graduates

To the 2021 Honors Graduates:

I admire you like no other students before you. During a year that challenged our world, our country, our university, and the social fabric of the Honors Program, you finished your coursework and Honors theses. Despite the challenges, you forged and nurtured interdisciplinary relationships that allowed you to learn from others, collaborate with faculty and peers, seek feedback on your work, and create new knowledge to impact the world for good. I am astounded by your essays and theses. They look good even through the mask-induced fog on my glasses.

Speaking of good, the world needs more of it in a big way. Who better to be an example of goodness to our communities, families, and faith than Honors graduates? Who better to grasp the amazing complexity of the problems facing us than Honors graduates? Who better to address those problems by making productive connections between diverse people and institutions than Honors graduates? Who better to bring concepts of faith and charity to the world than Honors graduates?

Now get out there, spread your rays of sunshine, and bring hope to this world after a time of hunkering down and uncertainty. May God bless you in your pursuits.

Congratulations!
Dr. Spencer P. Magleby