An Overview of the Harriet L Wilkes Honors College

1. An Overview of the Harriet L. Wilkes
Honors College

2. •Since 2007, attorney Curtis Lyman has served as a partner and the
managing director of the Lyman Group, an independent investment
advisory firm affiliated with HighTower Advisors in Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida.
Curtis Lyman is involved in several philanthropic and community-building
organizations and belongs to the Board of Advisors at Florida Atlantic
University’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College.

3. •Most colleges and universities have honors programs, some of which are
called honors colleges, but only the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College is a
freestanding liberal arts institution affiliated with a university.
All the students at the Wilkes Honors College are honors students, and all
the courses offered by the college are honors courses, taught by
professors with full-time appointments.
In contrast, most honors programs nationwide generally require students to
take several honors courses among numerous courses not designated as
honors.

4. •Located on Florida Atlantic University’s John D. MacArthur campus in
Jupiter, Florida, the Wilkes Honors College consists of six buildings with
classrooms and offices, a library, two residence halls, a 40,000-square-foot
science facility, and a dining hall.
It shares this campus with Scripps Florida and the Max Planck Florida
Institute, two of the world’s foremost biotech research centers.
These centers provide Wilkes Honors College students with unmatched
intellectual and internship opportunities.

5. •The faculty-to-student ratio at the Wilkes Honors College is very low, with
one faculty member for every 10 students, giving students the opportunity
to collaborate closely with leading researchers and academicians.
Students from the Wilkes Honors College routinely publish scholarly
research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and graduates regularly join the
nation’s preeminent professional and graduate programs.

6. •The faculty-to-student ratio at the Wilkes Honors College is very low, with
one faculty member for every 10 students, giving students the opportunity
to collaborate closely with leading researchers and academicians.
Students from the Wilkes Honors College routinely publish scholarly
research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and graduates regularly join the
nation’s preeminent professional and graduate programs.