Honors Program - Admission for Undergraduate Students

Students who wish to engage in rigorous, interdisciplinary coursework and dialogue are invited to participate in Lesley University’s Honor's Program.

The Lesley University Honors Program is a dynamic community that brings together students from diverse disciplines to foster growth, creativity, and leadership. The program provides students with a cohort of peers and mentors who share a commitment to collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. Our mission is to provide a flexible structure to ignite curiosity and encourage lifelong connections.

The Lesley University Honors Program cultivates students who make lasting contributions to their disciplines and communities.

Key Focus Areas

In keeping with our mission, the Honors Program emphasizes five interconnected areas that guide students’ development. By engaging with the following pillars, a successful honors student – a scholar, a creator, or an artist – will be able to deepen their learning, broaden their perspectives, and make meaningful contributions both within and beyond the university.

• Community Engagement
  Students will have the opportunity to engage meaningfully with communities, collaborating across disciplines and social groups. They will work together to identify real-world challenges, develop mutual understanding, and design creative interventions that foster reciprocal benefit, respect, and long-term community impact.
• Experimentation and Imagination
  Students will cultivate the ability to think imaginatively and critically, generating original ideas that challenge conventional assumptions. They will employ rigorous analytical methods, experiment with new modes of inquiry, and refine their reasoning skills, ultimately producing innovative work that advances understanding and inspires positive change.
• Research and Creativity
  Students will engage in research, creative production, and reflective writing to deepen their understanding of the world. They will learn to articulate their insights clearly across multiple formats and genres, refining their capacity for expression. By doing so, they will produce meaningful knowledge, share it effectively with others, and continually evolve in their scholarly and creative practices.
• Diversity and Representation
  Students will critically examine how power, culture, and identity shape physical and conceptual public spaces. They will explore various forms of representation—visual, textual, and performative—uncovering ways to center diverse voices and perspectives while recognizing their own positions within a broader cultural context.
• Sustainability
  Students will recognize the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability and integrate these considerations into their work. They will critically assess the long-term implications of their creative and scholarly endeavors, proposing and implementing approaches that support more just, resilient, and enduring futures.

For more information about Lesley’s honors program, contact:

Dr. Sonia Pérez-Villanueva
Associate Provost of Liberal Arts and Business
Professor of Spanish Studies and Literature in Translation
sperezvi@lesley.edu