Website: https://www.washburn.edu/academics/college-schools/arts-sciences/index.html

Programs

Faculty

Kelly Erby, PhD, Dean and Professor
Matt Arterburn, PhD, Associate Dean and Professor
Tracy Routsong, PhD, Associate Dean and Professor
Maria Stover, PhD, Associate Dean and Professor

Dana King, Communications Coordinator and Assistant to the Dean
Jeannette Nobo, Academic Advisor
Monique Robins, Outreach Coordinator
Claudia Robles-Cervantes, Office Coordinator

Brief History

From its inception, the College of Arts & Sciences has been entrusted with the responsibility for providing the liberal education central to the mission of Washburn University. Maintaining a standard of excellence in all of its programs, the College strives to motivate and challenge students to develop creative thinking, aesthetic awareness and discriminating judgment, as well as a sense of purpose and a zeal for continued independent and formal learning.

Through its faculty, the College remains the advocate for liberal education as a force for adaptation to an everchanging world. Faculty commitment to the triad of teaching, scholarship and service helps guide students in specialized ways while exposing them to broad areas of knowledge encompassed by liberal education. This combination of generalized and specialized learning leads to the integrated understanding characteristic of an educated person.

Mission

The College of Arts & Sciences seeks to engage students in a principled search for intellectual growth and development. In the same progressive spirit that motivated its founders, the College strives to provide all students an education in the liberal arts and sciences, so they may acquire, create, communicate and integrate knowledge to enrich their own lives and be prepared for positions of responsibility as active citizens of their local communities and our global society. The College promotes community engagement, interdisciplinary opportunities, small classes and diversity in its faculty and student body.