Featured Honors Program Student Raven Streebel

Raven Streebel, Fort Drum, is the featured Jefferson Community College (JCC) Honors Program student for the month of April 2025. Streebel is a paralegal major at Jefferson. For one of their Honors Program options, they analyzed how the comics Watchmen and Umbrella Academy adapt real-world events, like the Vietnam War, either by altering outcomes or using them to drive the story forward. 

The Jefferson Community College Honors Program offers students with exceptional academic skills the opportunity to receive enriched instruction within their current program of study. For the Honors Program, students select three courses within their curriculum, and enhance them as Honors Options. The option is based on a project agreed to by the student and a faculty member willing to work closely with the student to provide a unique and rewarding experience. Students also take the Honors Seminar, a unique inter-disciplinary course open only to program participants. The seminar examines a single theme each semester and features guest speakers from a variety of disciplines and often includes some sort of field experience. Successful program participants earn a prestigious Honors Graduate designation on their academic transcript for each Honors Option course. Students demonstrating excellent academic achievement in high school or who have completed 12 credit hours of college coursework are invited to apply for admission to the Honors Program. 

Streebel says, “I chose to participate in JCC’s Honors Program to have recognition of my accomplishments on my transcript and to also meet other people who are like-minded and hard working.” 

For more information, contact Honors Program coordinator, Dr. Joshua Canale, at jcanale@sunyjefferson.edu.