As the Heart of KU, the College is made up of people who are committed to making the world a better place. Our faculty, students and alumni are seeking answers to big questions: addiction, climate change, inequity and discrimination, cancer, community well-being, the universe.
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences plays a unique role in looking at these challenges, from perspectives across our disciplines of sciences, arts, humanities, social and behavioral studies, and international studies. It’s where those disciplines meet and share ideas where the most innovative ideas will be found. This collaboration will deliver meaningful results in making our world, our community and our society a better place.
We invite you to support the College through several opportunities that will benefit the work of our faculty and students:
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is vital to the growth and success of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Your support of this fund will provide students with more opportunities to find their futures in the College. You will also be supporting the recruitment and retention of faculty of color to ensure that our faculty reflects the diversity of our world.
- Opportunities for students to get first-hand, professional experience in their chosen field often is provided by research, creative projects, on-campus labs and more led by faculty across the College. The Faculty Support Fund will benefit research and teaching in the College, providing funding and support for materials, travel and more. Expanding funding and resources for our faculty is integral to furthering these key experiences for students in every major in the College.
- The KU Center for Genomics (KUCG) is a newly established center designed to bring scholars and scientists from a number of diverse disciplines together who are working on genetic-related problems together and help them elevate their work on a national scale. This work obviously involves biology, chemistry, and work relating to cancer and other diseases, but it also is relevant to KU faculty in anthropology working on the genetics of the peopling of America, faculty in psychology and applied behavior science working on the genetic bases of behavioral traits, and on intellectual disabilities that have a genetic basis (e.g., autism and Down Syndrome).
