Recent scholarship demonstrates a direct correlation between the body and brain in academic performance and general wellbeing. This essay considers mindfulness practice as an integrative discipline in honors education. While exercise offers many benefits to college students, the authors maintain that the mindfulness practices of yoga, qi gong, and…

This essay contends that honors education should seize the opportunity to expose our students to the horrors of our society such as "the violence against those among us with the least amount of power." We can affirm our curricular foundation (writing, reflection, and critical thinking) by supplementing it with histories of oppression in…