G.O.A.L.S.

The University Honors & Scholars Center at The Ohio State University serves high-ability, motivated undergraduate students. While embracing diversity in both ideas and people, the Center fosters purposeful learning communities that enhance students’ academic and social experiences. The Center facilitates impactful, rigorous, and unique opportunities that further student success and involvement in our G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement.

G.O.A.L.S.

GOALS
To be Globally aware and culturally diverse in appreciation and actions

Engage in Original inquiry through research and projects to increase knowledge in the world

Enhance Academic enrichment by pursuing the challenges of education and expanding curriculums from our classrooms to the world around us

Build Leadership development through networking and leading class discussions or going to lead a project outside of our campus community

And to continue Service engagement aiding to decrease the societal issues around us and incorporating service to a career in the future.

I chose to be a Biological Sciences Scholar in order to enhance Academic Enrichment and to continue Service engagement. Aiding in volunteer work that has connected me with different clubs around the school helped me learn many different perspectives on different social issues and community issues on campus. From hunger in our community to feminism in society, the scholars program’s necessary requirement for volunteering has helped me branch out and search for opportunities which lead to discussions that can enhance Academic Enrichment outside of the classroom. Inside the classroom, being a Biological Sciences Scholar aided me in my path to a career. Deciding on a major linked to medicine, biology (the study of life) was a core subject I have to learn and being around a community that holds discussions and lectures on working in the medical field are experiences that will be helpful in the near future.

To be a successful scholar, we have to be willing to learn anything keeping our minds open for opportunities to learn even if we don’t necessarily agree or understand. Sometimes that can be difficult as being a scholar or even a leader face challenges amongst pressure from opposing sides or lack of full comprehension but pushing passed those traits and gathering various perspectives on any issue can help diffuse any challenge that may arise.