Welcome from the Dean

Welcome to the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. We are the largest of Northwestern's undergraduate schools with over four thousand students and five hundred faculty members. Another 900 graduate students pursue advanced studies in our departments. While we are large enough to offer excellent facilities and instruction in fields ranging from Continental philosophy to microeconomics to the chemistry of life, we are small enough to foster stimulating intellectual conversations and fruitful professional collaborations across department lines. To those of us who make the College our home, it is a place of discovery and learning, for the faculty as well as for the undergraduate and graduate students whom it is our privilege to teach. It is a place where everyone is encouraged to ask important questions, to think critically and with an open mind, and to find ways to seek out answers. We value intellectual and social diversity and embrace norms of tolerance. Above all, it is a place where we all hope to foster a true intellectual community.

Northwestern's other schools contribute to the vibrancy of the life of everyone in the College. The University fosters curricular and research initiatives across school lines, and we can boast of innovative new programs in legal studies (Weinberg and the Law School), art and technology (Weinberg, Music, Communication, McCormick School of Engineering), and business (Weinberg and Kellogg) to cite just three. Friendships form across these boundaries, too, and one of the great virtues of Northwestern is the range of fascinating people on campus.

On the College's web pages we've made available a great deal of information about life at Northwestern. You'll find links to our twenty-five departments and the many interdisciplinary programs and research centers that engage faculty and students alike. One page proudly features our teaching award winners over the past three decades. Other pages direct students to opportunities for fellowships and research support. Still others lay out degree requirements and special opportunities ranging from internships to study abroad. And if you are considering applying to Northwestern, be sure to click on the College's special admissions pages which feature current students discussing what life is like at Northwestern. I hope that you will avail yourself of the information here and of the opportunities offered by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Aldon Morris
Interim Dean