Honors student Ashley Morales-Pacheco recently traveled with Honors Program Directors Ryan Cragun and Kacy Tillman to Asheville, North Carolina for the Southern Regional Honors Council conference. At the conference, Ashley presented her paper “The Effects of a Multiparty System on U.S. Polarization.” The paper describes how the “first past the gate” political system in the US is likely contributing to increased political polarization in the US.
While in Asheville, we were able to visit the Biltmore Estate and go for a hike, as shown in the pictures above.