The work students do for Honors Contracts can be helpful for faculty too!
Teaching Tools
| Contract | Benefit to Faculty | Benefit to Student | Example |
| The student conducts a literature review of recent publications | Provides faculty with up-to-date knowledge in their disciplines. Enables faculty to keep up with regularly published journals and the changing needs and sentiments of students. | Teaches students key skills such as how to complete a relevant literature review and define what constitutes good research and professional writing. | A pre-med student can do a literature review that explores the debate surrounding how doctors use technology to communicate with their patients. |
| The student researches and produces electronic content that faculty can use in online classes | Provides faculty with informative and educational media content. | The benefits vary depending on the content. It can be an informative and fun experience for the student. | If a nursing student is planning a trip to England, they can create a video contrasting nursing in the United Kingdom with nursing in the United States. |
Collaborative Research
| Contract | Benefit to Faculty | Benefit to Student | Example |
| The student can work on data collection and analysis. | Provides help and saves time for the faculty. | The student enjoys both a focused learning experience and an opportunity to share their findings at an undergraduate conference. | Students work with their professor to compare obesity rates in Japan with the United States. |
| Students can also be involved in the publication process. They can collect articles for a literature review, assist with experiments, and draft or edit parts of the text. | Faculty gains precious assistance and support in accomplishing essential academic and professional goals. | The project enables students to build concrete, meaningful research and professional experience. | Students find and summarize a group of case studies to be included in a textbook that the faculty member is writing. |
Promotional Material
| Contract | Benefit to Faculty | Benefit to Student | Example |
| The student can create promotional material such as a newsletter, brochure, presentation, or video for the university or their department. | The faculty/department gets relatable, timely promotional materials, especially for recruiting a college-age audience. | The project teaches students how to present an overview of a subject in a way that will catch peoples' attention. | Marine biology students can film an educational video showcasing experiments and activities they do in class. Then, they can explain what they're learning in the footage in a way that prospective students can understand. |
Grant Applications
| Contract | Benefit to Faculty | Benefit to Student | Example |
| The student can perform preliminary searches for promising grants, complete literature reviews, compile topic histories, locate supporting documents, collect and analyze preliminary data, and contribute to budget drafts. | Faculty gains precious assistance and support in grant applications. | Working through the entire process gives students valuable experience in how to identify and apply for a grant, which they can use in their future careers. | Students can work with faculty on a grant application to increase funding for researching alternative electric vehicle fuel cells. |
Community Engagement
| Contract | Benefit to Faculty | Benefit to Student | Example |
| The student can be involved in community development exercises. | Helps the faculty member to pursue, not only professional obligations, but also personal research interests in the community. | Students also get the fulfillment that comes from helping the community. Students also get to practice skills they're working on in a real-world context. | A professor who works with the Spanish-speaking community devises a project that sends a group of Honors students in a Spanish language course into a Spanish-speaking community to collect data about the government services they receive, their level of satisfaction, and inquire about what services were lacking. |