Forms for Students:
Student Application - now closed, please visit us again in the Winter/Spring 2024
This electronic form is to be used by student applying for admission to the Honors Forum. Each application must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a Skidmore faculty member. Faculty recommending students to the Forum should use the recommendation form.
Each student is required to complete a Student Honors Project before the second semester of the senior year. Students can choose from one of two pathways to complete the project, either the Great Conversation pathway or Civic Life pathway. For more information, click here.
Note that final reports should be emailed to Lisa Bradshaw (lbradsha@bianlifan.com) and carbon copied to the faculty sponsor. For more information about the content of the final report, click here.
Honors Forum Requirements Checklist
Use this form to keep track of your Honors Forum requirements.
As you may have noted in the Honors Forum flyers sent out with other Registration materials, Honors Forum members have the opportunity to pre-register for a space in an Honors course prior to regular Registration. Preregistration will guarantee you a space in one Honors Forum course only.
There are two options available for those students wishing to undertake an independent study. The first, HF271/272, is designed for first-year and sophomore students whereas HF 371/372 is designed for juniors and seniors. Each course is an independent research or project opportunity for a well-qualified student working at honors level. In consultation with a sponsoring faculty member, the student proposes to the Honors Council a project that builds upon the student’s academic background and interests and concludes in an honors paper or project to be shared with the wider student community. The Honors Independent Study may not be substituted for available honors courses.
Honors Forum Course Funds Request
The Skidmore College Honors Forum has a modest budget to support and co-sponsor activities, events and projects (typically in the range of $50-$200, occasionally above $200) that contribute to the intellectual quality of life on campus. Examples of programs include academic events such as special lectures, debates, research presentations, symposia, as well as cultural and social activities that bring honors forum members together with other students. Programs for which funding is sought should serve to foster academic and social connections among students and enhance intellectual discourse beyond the formal classroom. The Honors Forum expects that all co-curricular programs that it supports will promote the mission and goals of the Forum to its members and/or the College community at-large.
Honors Forum Activities and Co-Sponsorship Request - HTML format, Rich Text Format (created in MS Word for PC; readable by most Macs)
The Skidmore College Honors Forum has a modest budget to support and co-sponsor activities,
events and projects (typically in the range of $50-$200, occasionally above $200)
that contribute to the intellectual quality of life on campus. Examples of programs
include academic events such as special lectures, debates, research presentations,
symposia, as well as cultural and social activities that bring honors forum members
together with other students. Programs for which funding is sought should serve to
foster academic and social connections among students and enhance intellectual discourse
beyond the formal classroom. The Honors Forum expects that all co-curricular programs
that it supports will promote the mission and goals of the Forum to its members and/or
the College community at-large.
More information
Proposal for Senior Capstone Requirement
Each graduating member of the Honors Forum must complete an honors capstone project during the senior year. In most cases the capstone will be a substantial, culminating project (thesis, research report, performance, exhibit, etc.) defined by the student's major department(s). In some cases, however, the capstone for the Honors Forum might be a paper or project of especially sophisticated design to be completed within one of the student's "traditional" 300-level courses.
Students may use this form to indicate a temporary or permanent cessation in their Honors Forum membership.