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In 1998, MTSU's honors program, which had begun in 1973, became an Honors College. Just a few years later, with the help of generous alumni and friends, the College moved into a state-of-the-art building, that is now a central part of East campus. While the physical facilities have improved immensely, the College maintains its mission of providing an undergraduate education of exceptional quality and value to a small but diverse student population deeply committed to scholarship.

To fulfill this mission, the Honors College fosters the academic excellence and nurturing environment of a small, select, private, liberal arts college within the setting of a major university. The free exchange of ideas and the opportunity to learn from one another in small classes taught by expert faculty make the Honors College experience rich and meaningful.

We offer Buchanan Fellowships, Honors Transfer Fellowships, and other awards to students who would like to join us, and we, in turn, work diligently to advance the careers of students who are here. For each of the last two years, the College has had one or more science students who have won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. For each of the last three years, we have had two or more students win prestigious Fulbright Scholarships for study abroad. Within the last several years, one of our students was appointed to the USA Today All-American Academic Team. Others have distinguished themselves in mock trial, in student government, and in other activities.

The College supports students who want to study abroad as well as those who want to present their scholarly research. Last year over 60 students wrote theses and graduated with honors.

The College is the home of an award-winning literary magazine and a journal of undergraduate research. We also work closely with the Honors Student Association and the Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.

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    Resource Mobilization and the Hierarchy of Rights: Attitudes, Identities and Outcomes Among LGBTQt Populations
    (University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-05) Archer, Charlotte
    This study examines the LGBTQ+ movement, including the various identity subpopulations within the community, in the context of resource mobilization theory and the expectation that a hierarchy of rights exists within social movements, and within social movement organizations (SMOs). Resource mobilization theory states that a movement, and SMOs specifically, must have a narrow and focused agenda to be successful. In conformity with this postulate, social movements often have subordinate populations whose needs, rights, and agendas are relegated to secondary status or are completely suborned for the sake of the rights of the dominant population. Since the 1990s, two progressive social movements, the Third Wave feminist movement and the LGBTQ+ rights movement, have challenged this assumption by following and advocating policies that promote intersectionality and inclusion. This study considers whether this inclusive approach pays off by increasing resources through solidarity and movement crossover, and by so doing provides an alternative that allows broader agendas to be effective. To explore these ideas a survey of members of the LGBTQ+ community concerning their involvement, and their perception of the state of LGBTQ+ civil rights, was conducted.