About our 2023 Giving Day project
The Honor Bound project recruits American Indian, Alaska Native, and other Indigenous students with exceptional academic and leadership potential to the Honors College, where smaller class sizes and hands-on academic support set students up for earning national awards and scholarships that can propel them into top graduate schools and jobs.
Our goals
Honor Bound is targeting $5,000 in matched fundraising to advance its various recruitment and retention initiatives and programs designed to inspire the next generation of scholars and leaders in the Honors College at Montana State University. These funds will be used to support current and prospective students’ scholarships, research, tuition, fees, travel awards (to include airfares, lodging, ground transportation, and meals) for conferences, exchange programs, and other co-curricular opportunities.
This campaign has been generously supported with a $5,000 dollar-for-dollar match. The first $5,000 dollars will be doubled.
About our organization
The first cohort of Honor Bound scholars featured five American Indian / Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in STEM in the overlapping disciplines of environmental studies, engineering, environmental design, and community health. The second cohort has more than doubled in size and capacity in its second year, but the best is yet to come. This student-led initiative has outlined strategic efforts over the next two years to develop, pilot, and establish a multi-disciplinary, multi-generational program designed by and for seventh generation Indigenous scholars in the Honors College at Montana State University.
Why are donations necessary?
The mission of the Honors College at Montana State University is to prepare academically motivated students to think critically and independently within a challenging and supportive community, by partnering with all other colleges, departments, and programs at the university. The Honors College fosters excellence in undergraduate education through the integration of studies in the sciences, arts, and humanities and through undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activities. As lifelong learners, Honors students will continually develop their critical thinking skills along with their ability to articulate and respect diverse viewpoints, as future leaders dedicated to serving and improving our state and our world. This project is shaping the next generations of Indigenous scholars by forming a cohort of leaders that will carry forward an interconnected, intergenerational perspective to transform communities and nations during their time at Montana State and beyond.