Governor's Honors Academy Opening Ceremony Set for June 28

About 200 high school juniors will participate in the 2015 Governor’s Honors Academy at Fairmont State University from June 29 through July 19. An Opening Ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 28, in Gym 1 of the Falcon Center on the main campus.   

The three-week residential program is administered by the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts, which also assists with in-kind support. Dr. J. Robert Baker, Director of the Honors Program at FSU, will serve as dean. The theme of the 2015 GHA is “The Sustainable Life.”

The students attending the GHA are enrolled in a number of fun and interesting broad-based and intensive courses in which they explore the areas of the arts, humanities and math/science. The intensive courses run from 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.  The broad-based courses take place in the afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. In the evenings, students participate in cultural activities organized around the theme of the Academy.

“Students attending GHA are just a short year away from entering college, and their experience on the campus of Fairmont State University changes their ideas about living on campus from dreams to reality. While living in a community of scholars, the 200 rising seniors from all over our state experience relationships with outstanding, excited faculty and, possibly for the first time, learn and study with students who are much like themselves,” said Sherry Keffer, Director of Governor’s Schools.

The mission of the academy is to operate an academically rich environment designed for high ability/high achieving students in an institution of higher education, challenging them to grow intellectually, creatively and socially in a culturally diverse atmosphere.

For more information, visit http://www.govschools.wv.gov/about_us/Pages/default.aspx.

Governor's Honors AcademySherry KefferJ. Robert Baker