The Madison Honors Club provides opportunities for honors students to build community and develop leadership skills while serving others. Student-led, the organization provides service to the Honors Program and to varied community activities such as Habitat for Humanity, Keister Elementary School, Boys and Girls Club, Roberta Webb Day Care, Mercy House and Sunnyside Retirement Community. The Student Advisory Council is composed of at least eight honors students who offer recommendations and suggestions to the Honors Program directors and the Honors Program Committee concerning the policies, regulations, curriculum and activities of the Honors Program.
Membership consists of representatives from each of the four classes and five colleges.
Students apply for membership on the council at the beginning of the school term. Members serve one-year terms. Honors News is the newsletter of the JMU Honors Program. Published four times a year, the newsletter carries announcements of coming opportunities in honors, reports on honors activities, recognizes student and faculty accomplishments and provides opportunity for honors students to gain writing and publishing experience. Honors students are invited to apply for staff positions each fall.