Welcome to The Templeton Honors College!

Since its founding in 1999, The Templeton Honors College has been committed to forming academically accomplished and professionally ambitious students in the Christian intellectual, artistic, and literary tradition.  

If you are a student who wants to take your formation seriously and wants to be taken seriously, then you may be the kind of student we are looking for. If you have spent your life reading, think at the end of pen, refuse to outsource your thinking to A.I., and long to find people who care about the same things you do, then you may be the kind of student we are looking for. If you have a sense that education should be more than overpriced job training for gainful employment, then you may be the kind of student we are looking for. 

And if you want to ask big questions and enter into dialogue with serious thinkers who have asked them before you, then Templeton may be the place for you. What is a good life? Why is there suffering? What is justice? What is a flourishing society? Does beauty matter? What is knowledge? How do I love my neighbor? How was the world made? Who is God? These are the kinds of questions we consider together. But we don’t ask these questions in a vacuum nor simply pool our collective opinions; rather we ask these questions in a community oriented toward the true, good, beautiful, and holy, shaped by the spiritual and intellectual practices of the historic Christian faith, and ordered by contemplative leisure, vigorous study, and loving wonder. 

Templeton’s sequence of carefully designed and integrated seminars represent an alternative way for intellectually ambitious undergraduate students to meet their general education requirements at Eastern University. This means that Templeton's undergraduate program is compatible with every major or minor Eastern offers, from Data Science to Philosophy, Dance to Nursing, Biochemistry to Business, Theatre to Theology, Mathematics to Pre-Law. In The Templeton Honors College, we prepare wise and virtuous servants and leaders no matter what profession our students pursue or where in the world God calls them. 

The practice of education as holistic formation for human flourishing marks all three of our academic programs:

  • Our high school Summer Scholars Program for rising juniors and seniors,
  • Our Undergraduate General Education Program, and
  • Our Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) for classical school educators and leaders.

You can learn about The Templeton Honors College through our website, but I would encourage you to visit Templeton Hall on our beautiful campus, sit in on a class, and meet the scholars and students who make this a truly exceptional and life-changing place.

-Dean Brian A. Williams

“Our motto, CUM GRATIA OFFICIUM ["with gifting, duty"], points to our guiding principle of Christian stewardship. In the Templeton Honors College we call our students away from mediocrity, irresponsibility, cynicism, and ingratitude and into lives of Christian stewardship. We remind them that their education liberates them to know the true, do the good, enjoy the beautiful, worship the holy, and serve their neighbors by any means ready to hand.

As Jesus declares in Luke 12: "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked."”