VPUE
VPUE
Undergrad

For Faculty

Proposal Information

Deadline for proposals from faculty interested in leading a Bing Honors College cohort is February 28, 2025. Please email your proposal to binghonorscollege@stanford.edu.

Since its inception in 1993, BHC has pursued the goal of accelerating progress on Honors theses by offering students an uninterrupted block of time during which to focus on their work before the start of autumn classes; providing the close supervision of a Faculty Leader; and fostering a sense of intellectual community among students within and across academic disciplines.

Faculty Leader Responsibilities

Pre-College: Select students; convene participants before the end of spring quarter; hire a graduate student assistant, if desired; contact students’ advisors (at a minimum, the thesis director should be informed about his/her students’ participation); arrange for workshops, training in specific skills, special events.

During College: Devote approximately 15-20 hours per week to student seminars, individual conferences, daily lunches, and attendance at Bing Honors College events, including opening and closing events should we be able to hold these. 

Note: Students and faculty divide their time between department/program seminars, independent research and writing, and one-to-one consultations. BHC also sponsors College-wide programs to encourage faculty-student interaction and scholarly community.

Post-College: Report on and evaluate the success of the College for students in the BHC group.

Student Selection Process

Each major is responsible for managing the selection process for student acceptance to the College. (As a general principle, we recommend that you give priority to those students who have a clear idea of what they want to accomplish during the College.)

Support for Faculty

  • A $6,000 stipend for Faculty Leaders. If there are more than 12 students from a department or program, BHC can fund a second faculty leader. Note: For departments or programs with fewer than 4 students, we will either attempt to consolidate the students under a single appropriate Faculty Leader or provide a prorated stipend. For cohorts of 3 students, Faculty leaders will receive a prorated stipend of $4,500. For cohorts of 2 students, Faculty Leaders will receive a prorated stipend of $3,000. We will keep programs informed of BHC enrollments throughout the Spring and Summer. On August 1, we will notify faculty if there are reduced stipends (based on cohort enrollment numbers). Cohorts of 1 student will not be funded, and these students should be asked to move to another cohort.
  • Each cohort can hire a Graduate Student Mentor to assist with BHC. Graduate Student mentors will be paid hourly at the rate of $33.00 per hour.  Our goal is for Graduate Student Mentors to make roughly $1,500 (roughly 45 hours leading up to and during BHC). If there are more than 12 students, a second graduate student can be hired.
  • Programming funds and expert staff consultations made available to each participating department or program to help students with their writing, oral communication, library, and research skills.
  • For residential students: funding for room and board and for early arrival charges for fall quarter campus housing.
  • For day students, who for various reasons will not be living in BHC housing, full access to the Faculty Leader and class cohort, and participation in the opening dinner and closing reception as well as all College-wide activities.
  • The Hume Center for Writing and Speaking is an invaluable resource for Honors students during the academic year, providing individualized writing consultations on a continuing basis, skills workshops, technical assistance, and boot camps for concentrated writing.