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Student Profile - Darris Saylors

" UHON offers opportunities for students to look beyond their text-based classroom education with experience-based learning in the greater Chattanooga community, across the United States, and even abroad in foreign countries. Because of the annual UHON fine arts and culture tour, I traveled with the program to northern England and southern Scotland in 2003 and to Florence, Rome, Venice and Milan this summer. If I had not already traveled abroad with UHON, I probably never would have taken the initiative to pursue the Summer-in-India program last surmmer. I traveled with a group of ten students from UTC, several of them members of the honors program, to various parts of India. Journeying that far East and immersing myself in a culture rich in religious and social traditions very different from those of the West was a life-changing experience that allowed me to encounter and respond to a culture and part of the world of which I was largely ignorant beforehand. That experience and my travels with UHON have prompted me to pursue studying abroad for a full year. I hope to one day visit and study in South Africa, though the travel bug has bitten me and I would be grateful for any available experience abroad."


Darris is a senior English major from Ooltewah, TN, and has been selected to fill the office of UHON Student Assistant Director for the 2005-2006 academic year. She has served on the UHON Council since her freshman year and was elected secretary in 2004-2005. Darris has been a co-presenter at three National Collegiate Honors Council Conferences and has been selected to do a presentation again this year (on the UHON Cultural Trips).

Beyond the UHON Program, she has been a vital part of campus life, working for UTC's Housing Department as a resident assistant in both Lockmiller and Boling Apts, and for the Writing Center as a student writing assistant.

 

 

 


Darirs (left) with fellow UHON students Ajit Chittambalam and Kelly Fulkerson at the UHON Council's 2004 Date Auction

Darris served on the Student Advisory Board in the selection of the head of the English Department and of two tenure-track faulty positions. She was 2004-2005 co-president (with Kelly Fulkerson, pictured above) of UTC's chapter of Habitat for Humanity.