Dive Brief:

• The University of Massachusetts Amherst is hoping the new $192 million, seven-building complex that houses its honors college will attract some of the state’s top students.
• The honors college has been around since 1999 but until now had no physical home.
• The acting dean of the college says he would like to see it become competitive with Ivy League schools. 

Dive Insight:

The gleaming new buildings present the university with one issue: How to make the honors college attractive and selective without making it elitist and overly exclusive? Already, the article says, students occasionally hear negative comments from classmates not in the honors college. The new complex might sharpen that divide.