Goal 3: Undergraduates

Expanded Undergraduate Opportunities

Great progress has been made enhancing Arts & Sciences’ undergraduate experience and educating undergraduates. This remains our most important mission. Arts & Sciences enjoys the benefits of a liberal arts college where students have close relationships with faculty, a multitude of course offerings, and the intellectual freedom to explore various traditional and interdisciplinary pursuits. Our faculty is committed to scholarship
and produces ample opportunity for undergraduates to explore academic research across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The strategies suggested will build on our current undergraduate experience, which is already strong. Chief among them is the imperative that we significantly increase our financial aid resources in order to admit and enroll top students, regardless of their financial need.

Over the next decade we aim to extend the Arts & Sciences general education requirements
to all undergraduates in order to create a unified educational experience. We will strengthen the educational connections to other units such as Computer Science. This will allow us to recruit excellent students who are attracted to such a unifying experience. Accordingly, all students would take a similar liberal arts core along with a major in an Arts & Sciences or a professional school discipline.

Core Initiative

Create a unified college.