The Great Conversation

Participate in The Great Conversation

Each year, more than 275 individuals come together to support The Honors College by participating in our award-winning fundraising event, The Great Conversation. Proceeds from the The Great Conversation, the college's primary fundraising event, provide Honors College scholarships and special support to Honors faculty and programs.

The Great Conversation draws its name from and embodies the overarching goals of The Honors College: to foster thoughtfulness about and care for the world by engaging people in disciplined conversation about things that matter. Event topics are drawn from many areas of life from arts and literature, history, religion, public policy to aspects of the city of Houston, just to name a few.

The event format allows all guests to be active participants. The evening begins with a reception, and continues with a multi-course dinner paired with fine wine selections. During the meal, guests discuss a topic that has been predetermined for their table facilitated by a UH faculty member. Guests are encouraged to indicate on their response card their preference for topics. On most occasions, guests can be accommodated at a table offering one of their top three conversations.

In 1994, the Houston Chapter of the Assocation of Fundraising Professionals selected The Great Conversation as the Outstanding Fundraising Program Special Event.

For more information about the event, to underwrite a table, or to reserve individual seats, contact Shannon Parrish Brotherton at The Honors College at 713-743-9973 or via email.
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