Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan

A Transformative Decade:
Convergence, Creativity, Community

Imagine ... 

• An expanded faculty, diverse and inclusive, with even more robust research opportunities that push the boundaries of the possible.
• Multiple departments and programs ranked in the top ten within the next ten years.
• Educational practices that engage far more environments of learning, connecting students with experiences throughout the city and world that build on a powerful foundation of disciplinary and transdisciplinary studies.
• Innovative liberal arts programs that address questions of life design and emphasize multiple literacies, asking students what it means to live a good life as engaged citizens throughout the world.
• Graduate students drawn here from across the globe because of the innovative research, scholarship, and high-impact creative practices we are developing.

This is our moment. We are ready.

In Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, we have a strong foundation on which to build and extraordinary resources to engage. And over the next ten years, we will leverage those resources to build a top institution devoted to bringing people together from across the world to discover new knowledge, explore the universe, and serve the public good.