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Name: Jamese F. Johnson
Phone: 713.313.6724
Email: johnsonjf@tsu.edu

message from the dean

Welcome to the Thomas F. Freeman Honors College at Texas Southern University. At this site, we provide our potential students, current students, alumni and other visitors with what we believe to be important information about the College.

This information is on the academic program of the College, its co-curricular activities, its assistance to its students, its administrative structure and procedures, and its relationships with faculty, university officials and external publics.

We invite students to seek entry into the College as soon as possible. We expect that the competition for admission into and assistance from the College will be keen. That is because the College accepts applications not only from students in the senior year in high school but also from those in the first year at our university or other institutions.

Readers should expect frequent updates to the information on this site. The updates will reflect the continual attempt by the College to optimize the education it provides students through the utilization of University and external resources.

Of course, the principal objective is to provide students with the best preparation possible for service and realization in the age of globalization and globalism.

Humphrey A. Regis, Ph.D., Dean

“Multidimensionality” and “Interdisciplinarity”

A few years ago, a law firm in Washington, DC sought a new employee who would help its mid-level lawyers improve their ability to write and present statements on behalf of their clients.

The firm no doubt wished that new employee would understand many aspects of client representation, thus showing an understanding of the multidimensionality (many parts, dimensions) of issues.

The firm also expected the employee would apply backgrounds in law, wri¬ting, speech and rhetoric, and, perhaps, instruction and education, thus showing "interdisciplinarity" (the weaving of ideas and skills from many specialties or disciplines).

Thus the firm was implying that while employees may have "specialties," their recognition of "multidimensionality" and their application of "interdisciplinarity" may be keys to their success.

New Age" of "Globalization" and "Globalism

We live in the age in which we are realizing "globalization," which some say has two major features. First, human beings around the world are able to connect themselves through many means. They include communication, trade and travel. Second, with the help of these connections, what happens in any part of the world affects what happens in many other parts.

We also live in an age in which we are aspiring toward "globalism." With globalism, people in and from different parts of the world live as though they make up a family or "community" – as though they live in a "global village."

Mission

The ideas of "multidimensionality," "interdisciuplinarity," glo¬balization and globalism all inform the mission of the Thomas F. Freeman Honors College at Texas Southern University.

The College educates students who (1) demonstrate "multidimensionality" and "interdisciplinarity," (2) are dedicated to their local or proximate communities, and (3) apply their specialties in serving and integrating their local, national and global communities in the era of globalization and globalism.