Messages from the Dean

Dean Harris reflects on the Dean's Academy Futurists, how little bets, risk-taking, and experimentation paid off, and the importance of futurism in this moment.

Brian Reed, Divisional Dean of Humanities and Professor of English, shares how the Humanities Academic Services Center has been successful. 

An essay focusing on a pedagogical experimental model called the Curiosity Clinic.  

With higher education being pressure-tested by financial strains, technological advances, and shifts in the cultural and demographic landscape, there are key questions we must address to ensure the benefits it brings to this nation and its many and varied communities for the future. 

Students share their perspectives on the impact of AI in the classroom, how faculty members are handling classroom policies, and why open dialogue needs to be at the heart of AI policy.

Watch the recording of the 2025 College of Arts & Sciences Welcome Event.

"I believe that a university degree must deliver on the inextricably twinned promises of life-long personal transformation and enhanced opportunity for career success," writes Dean Dianne Harris.

The Dean's Academy Futurists — which includes faculty from across all four divisions of the college and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds — consider the future of higher education and liberal arts education. The Futurists are a part of the dean's Rethinking the Academy initiative.

Dean Dianne Harris offers a personal reflection on the importance of voting.

Dean Dianne Harris shares a poem that she wrote as we welcome new and returning Huskies to the College of Arts & Sciences.