August 18, 2025
Newsletter link: https://mailchi.mp/siue/this-week-in-honors-august-18-2025
Welcome Back!
Welcome back, returning students, and welcome to Honors for all of our first years and transfers! We’re excited to see you! We’ve changed our newsletter format to reflect the feedback we’ve received. You said “Even shorter!”, and we have delivered! Without further ado, see below for campus employment, service, engagement opportunities, and more!
This Week in Honors
- Apply to lead our Learning Lounges or work in The Nest as a student worker! Search for honors on Cougar Jobline and apply!
- Join the Honors discord to connect with honors students, get updates, and be generally very silly! Link expires in 7 days.
- Gaggle, the support/impromptu advising/mini destress/random giveaways/suitable points group, is meeting Wednesdays from 3-5. Location: Martinson Honors Suite, Lovejoy Library 3rd floor.
- Destress Thursdays, our happy chill session, will meet on Thursdays 3-5. This week, we're 3-530 as we watch Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Fresh popcorn will be provided. Location: Martinson Honors Suite, Lovejoy Library 3rd floor.
Introducing Suitable
Starting this fall, all honors students will use Suitable, a new app that helps you keep track of your honors experiences. You’ll log things like events, projects, and service so everything lives in one place.
The most important change right now: reporting your service hours will happen through Suitable. If you’ve done service (or plan to soon), you’ll use the app to submit it.
Here’s what to do this week:
- Download the app from the App Store or Google Play
- Log in with your SIUE email to connect to the honors program.
That’s all for now. Next week we’ll show you how to use Suitable for everything else in your honors journey.
Service Updates
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Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, IL is offering a great opportunity for students looking for volunteer hours in the fall semester.
Opening Minds through Art (OMA) is an award-winning, evidence-based, intergenerational program for persons living with dementia. Student volunteers help provide opportunities for creative self-expression and social engagement for people living with dementia.
This program was developed at Miami University's Scripps Gerontology Center in Ohio and is grounded in person-centered principles.
Check out the flyer! Contact Christine Baker (cbaker2720@gmail.com or 618/578-9351) for details.
Honors Student Association
- We are excited to announce our new executive board for the 2025-26 Academic Year! Please join us in congratulating the following:
- President - Faith Wetherington
- Vice-President - Shihab Alseikh
- Treasurer - Olivia Moore
- Secretary - Annah Hale
- Please join us in welcoming our new class representatives!
- At Large: Ellie Hurm, Eleanor Schuler, Dannica Davis
- Senior: Emma Griebenow & Rachel Robertson
- Junior: Anna Schleyhan
- Sophomore: Taylor Mungai & Jaiden Parker
