The greatest challenges that our world faces today require skills that belie singular modes of understanding. As this era is defined by rapid social, technological and economic changes, the liberal arts model of education and inquiry is perhaps more relevant today than ever before. The education conferred by the College of Arts & Sciences is a recipe for creating an intellect that is well formed a
nd highly versatile. It is also the best long-term training for innovation, entrepreneurship, and civic leadership. Our openness to intersecting paths is a deep part of who we are. Interdisciplinary collaboration and scholarship is at our foundation. With a strong academic community continuously generating new ideas, excellent teachers who challenge students to expand their imaginations while sharpening their critical and creative responses to all they encounter, and independent and diverse students and scholars on their own paths toward discovery and transformation, the College of Arts & Sciences is, and has always been, the nexus of Cornell, offering humanity’s greatest opportunity for innovation, creativity and illumination of pathways to the future.
