Each year, ISI selects undergraduates to participate in a yearlong program of educational enrichment.
“The ISI honors program is a vastly rewarding experience,” Rivers said.
Rivers recently attended a weeklong, all-expenses paid ISI summer conference, “Law in the Western Tradition: Common, Constitutional, Natural and Divine,” in Quebec City. Canada. Students had the opportunity to engage in debate and discussion led by faculty mentors from numerous colleges and universities who teach in the humanities and social sciences.
“I've never seen people so passionate in their love of learning purely for learning's sake. The conference, with its challenging professors and its stellar students, presented an approach to education that far surpassed typical GPA concerns and went straight to the heart of the matter--a genuine desire to uncover the true nature of the subject,” he said.
As part of ISI's Honors Program, throughout this academic year, Rivers will receive continuing direction from faculty mentors through participation in small seminars and online discussions. ISI faculty mentors and staff provide one-on-one professional assistance to the Honors Fellows, including information about internships, job opportunities and graduate and professional programs.
“The program instilled in me an enthusiasm for education that I'm happy to say has stayed with me through all the normal chaos of starting a brand new school year and has given me the opportunity to make several close friends of both fellow students and even some of the professors,” he said.
Rivers also will be invited to attend an ISI career development seminar and receive a large collection of free books and journals.
Founded in 1953, ISI works to nurture “the American ideal of ordered liberty in future leaders.”
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