Becca Berkey
Director
Justin Silvestri
Associate Director
Brooke Tempesta
Associate Director
617.373.2333
617.373.5300 (fax)
honors@northeastern.edu
The John Martinson Honors Program is dedicated to empowering its students’ ability to affect meaningful impact in their campus, local, and global communities during their undergraduate education. Our community of students, faculty, and professional staff are committed to engagement with scholarship and experiential learning that enables students to confront critical societal issues and leverage the knowledge and expertise from these encounters to make a difference at Northeastern University and beyond. Students benefit from unique and enriched educational options that include stimulating courses, opportunities for research and creative endeavors, global experiences, service-learning, mentoring, and the development of competencies that will position them for lifelong learning and personal and professional success. Throughout their undergraduate experience, honors students are guided and supported as they chart their unique educational plans through personalized developmental advising, engagement in diverse competency-based learning experiences, and participation in a set of networked communities.
Honors students benefit from access to unique learning pathways that culminate in the Honors Impact badge and University Honors Program Distinction. These credentials are demonstrative of Honors’ commitment to transformative global learning and making an impact in the communities that honors students and alumni inhabit.
All applicants seeking freshman entry at Northeastern (for fall semester entry) are considered for admission into the John Martinson Honors Program and are notified of their selection in their letter of admission. There is no separate application. Students matriculating in the fall 2024 semester and beyond will have opportunities for ongoing participation in the program at the conclusion of their first year.
Continuing students not initially admitted to the Honors Program who wish to be considered for entry during their first, second, or third semesters may consult the John Martinson Honors Program for internal application instructions.