Hutton Honors College

May 2, 2006

Two HHC Students Win Goldwater Scholarships. Juniors Elizabeth Adams and Robert Koffie, both Hutton Honors College students, have been named Goldwater Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year.

January 23, 2006

Kathleen Claussen Named Mitchell Scholar. IUB senior Kathleen Claussen, a Wells Scholar and member of the IU Hutton Honors College, has been named one of 12 national recipients of the 2006-07 George J. Mitchell Scholarship.
The fourth IU student to be named a Mitchell Scholar, Claussen will seek a graduate degree in international politics at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

December 19, 2005

HHC Provides Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Jason Plumton looks forward to Tuesdays. One recent Tuesday he made a Halloween bat. "We do monthly crafts," he says with a smile stretched across his face. "We spend an hour together each week," Plumton continues. "Our time is split in half, 30 minutes on school stuff. The other half is playtime." Plumton is a sophomore business student at Indiana University. Playtime? Just the notable perks of spending time with a 3rd grader through the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program offered through the Indiana University Hutton Honors College Community Service Program....

November 9, 2005

Richelle Brown Joins HHC Advising Staff. Richelle Lee Brown graduated from Indiana University in 1999, then came back a year later to start work on a masters in counseling and counseling education. "They can't get rid of me," she says. Now, a few years later, her graduate degree in hand, Brown pursues something other than academics. She is the newest member of the Hutton Honors College advising team.... 

October 19, 2005

Caswell Teaches On. Austin Caswell has been teaching at Indiana University for 30 years, and has been teaching honors courses for most of that time. Retired from the School of Music, he continues to guide students through the Ideas and Experience "great books" sequence, H211 and H212. He has attempted to retire once, but his love for the students and the classes in the Hutton Honors College energizes him. "It wasn't a matter of coming back," he says. "Teaching is the most exciting thing I can think of doing"....