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Honors Advising

During Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters the Honors Program advisers will hold drop-in advising hours. Feel free to come by during this time to ask questions or talk to an adviser about your plans. If these times do not work in your schedule, you can always make an appointment by contacting the adviser directly.

Autumn 2009 Drop-In Hours

Note: These drop-in hours will take effect starting September 30th! If you need to meet with an adviser before then, you should schedule an individual appointment instead.
Monday
1:00-3:00 p.m. with Julie
Tuesday
1:00-3:00 p.m. with Brook
Wednesday
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. with Laura
Thursday
1:00-3:00 p.m. with Brook
Friday
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. with Laura, 10-11 a.m. with Jim

For an appointment, please contact the adviser directly to arrange a time that works best in both of your schedules:

Brook Kelly
bbkelly@u.washington.edu / 206-221-6131
Julie Villegas
villegas@u.washington.edu / 206-543-7172
Laura Harrington
laurah13@u.washington.edu / 206-221-6074

College honors students are required to attend two mandatory advising sessions during their time in the University Honors Program. The first of these is the mandatory first year advising session, which occurs anytime during your first year in the Honors Program, and the second is a pre-graduation advising session, to be scheduled during the quarter before you graduate (i.e., if you will graduate at the end of Spring Quarter, you should have an advising appointment during Winter Quarter).

We STRONGLY encourage you to come in and talk with us any and all times that you have questions, concerns, or just to tell us that something great has happened (we all like good news), and we certainly hope you will make more than one advising appointment in your time in Honors. Mandatory advising is designed to help us better understand the goals and intentions of our students and to help you have a successful undergraduate experience and feel more at home in the Honors community.

First Year Advising

It is required that all first year students in the Honors Program (freshmen, late admits, or transfer students) have an advising meeting some time during their first year. This is a chance for you to sit down with an adviser, discuss your goals for the upcoming quarters, and ask any questions that you may have about UW or Honors (or life in general!). It also helps make sure that you are aware of important resources on campus and are comfortable using Honors advising.

Please feel free to seek advising or just visit us at any time, but you do need to check in at least once before the end of Spring Quarter of your first year in the Honors Program.

Pre-Graduation Advising

It is required that all students nearing graduation who plan to complete a College Honors degree have an Honors advising session the quarter before they graduate. The session ensures that you have or are planning to successfully complete the Honors core requirements and allows us to hear about your upcoming plans.

To satisfy your mandatory advising session, you can either drop in during our set drop-in advising hours, or make an appointment for another time with Aley, Brook, or Julie by e-mailing them directly. If you take advantage of either of these options during the time frame mentioned above, that meeting will serve as your one mandatory advising appointment. But if we never see or hear from you, we will be contacting you, reminding you that these appointments are mandatory.

Aley Mills Willis

Aley has been an adviser in the UW Honors Program since Autumn, 2002. She completed her undergraduate studies at UW with an Honors degree in English Literature, and her graduate studies at UW with a Masters in Education with an emphasis in Higher Education Policy Studies. She has focused much of her studies on how college students incorporate experiential learning opportunities into their curriculum. Before working in higher education, Aley worked in book publishing in NYC and Seattle and holds a particular interest in literature of the environment.

Working with Honors students has been a wonderful way to help motivated college students create an individualized path of study and reach their goals at the UW. When not working with students, or thinking about higher education, Aley spends as much time as possible in the mountains around the Seattle area and traveling to places of interest - mostly revolving around more mountains. She has traveled through most of the US, much of Europe, the Caribbean, Coast Rica, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, and Nepal and is thrilled to help students learn about study abroad and other international opportunities.

Aley is currently out of the office, embarking on her latest adventure - being a mom! Aley will return to Honors at the beginning of Winter 2010.

Brook Kelly

Brook has been an adviser with the Honors Program since Spring 2005 and has been working in Honors since 2002, when she was herself an Honors student. Brook completed a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with Honors and History from the University of Washington in Winter 2004. She spent the next six months traveling in eastern and southern Africa on a Bonderman Fellowship.

After that incredible experience she returned to Seattle to work at the Honors Program, where she has been learning how much fun it is to be at the University and not have homework! She enjoys working with amazing students doing incredible things and helping them connect their studies to the rest of the world through service and experiential opportunities. Brook plans to someday pursue a graduate degree, most likely in global/public health, but for now she enjoys hiking, exploring the beautiful city of Seattle, watching bad TV shows, reading anything she can get her hands on, visiting her family in eastern Washington, and traveling any chance she gets.

Laura Harrington

Laura is the newest addition to advising in Honors, starting in July 2009. She graduated from UW in June 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in Women Studies and Comparative History of Ideas. As an undergrad, Laura enjoyed spending time abroad, volunteering around Seattle, and working as student staff here in Honors. She also spent a significant amount of time writing her CHID thesis!

Laura will be helping out with advising while Aley Willis is on maternity leave, and is glad to be afforded the opportunity to continue living in Seattle and working at the University. Laura is especially excited to continue hearing about all the fascinating and creative things Honors students are doing, thinking and exploring!