While the college does not have an established "Honor Code", there is a "faith based honor code", which requires students to remain faithful to the college's mission, faith and identity.
LiveScience explains that the culture comes from Scotch-Irish settlers who came to the Appalachian Mountains and the Carolinas in the 1700s, who already had an established honor culture in their homeland.
For their part, several states, including Indiana, Georgia and Connecticut, have made themselves more attractive by establishing honors colleges within their universities that allow top students a free or nearly free financial ride.
The author, Jiang Rong, 61, beat four other Asian writers on the short list to capture the $10,000 award established to honor the region's best literature that has yet to be published in English.
Two recent Off Broadway plays and two works produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are among the five finalists for the new $100,000 theater award established to honor Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his interest in American history, the Columbia University Libraries announced on Tuesday.
The award was established in honor of Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes, who were teammates as rookies with the Rochester Royals in 1955-56.
In 1992, an award was established in honor of Jonas Basanavičius, who led the Council of Lithuania when the Act of February 16 was signed.
That figure includes the annual Charles Stark Draper Prize and a new $500,000 award, the biennial Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, established to honor engineering achievements of "critical importance".
The Chamber Orchestra was established in honor of Respighi, the traditionalist Italian composer who died in 1936.
In lieu of flowers donations to Rev. Thomas V. Bermingham Scholarship Fund, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, which Mr. Bermingham established in honor of his late brother.
Royalties from the book will aid several charitable causes, including the DeWayne Murcer Memorial Foundation, a fund established in honor of the brother of the late Bobby Murcer.
