 "Photo: Courtesy Ansel Brown, Director of the University Honors Program")
Tonight, the University Honors Program will host its second monthly chat session on global hot topics at 5:30 p.m.
The UHP Café will host ABM Nasir, N.C. Central University associate professor of business, who will lead a discussion on the current economic recession.
At the UHP students will discuss the causes and impacts of our recent recession.
The café is an initiative of the UHP director, Ansel Brown. Sponsored by Barnes and Noble Bookstore and Starbuck's Coffee, the group meets the first Tuesday of each month.
"We are truly thrilled to initiate UHP Café," said Brown.
"We want to provide students with a dynamic environment that stimulates intellectual discourse, analysis of contemporary issues, and community-oriented problem solving."
"Our goal is to prepare our students to become globally astute and engaged community leaders," said Brown.
"The UHP Café is just one step in the direction of that effort."
Freshmen are invited to join the honors program by invitation based on their high school record, standardized test scores and recommendations.
Others interested in becoming a part of the honors program will need to have a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
About 50 students gathered for the first UHP Café in the student lounge of the H. M. Michaux School of Education Building on Sept. 1.
The first session was lead by Rolin Mainnudin, associate professor of political science and specialist in Middle East politics.
Mainnudin led a discussion on the recent controversy surrounding the Islamic Cultural Center that is planned to be built in downtown Manhattan near Ground Zero.
"I like it because it is inclusive and it groups you together with like minded people" said biology and pharmaceutical science sophomore Carmelo Montalvo.
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