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CLA's Special Edition Campaign Magazine

To celebrate exceeding our Shattering Expectations campaign goal, the College of Liberal Arts created a special edition magazine for supporters of the College.

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How to Move Mountains

The work of CLA scholars has never been more urgent or relevant. Examples of our faculty and students engaged in being their best reveal the transformative power of the liberal arts in a rapidly changing world.

No Going Back. Expectations pushed, tested, and (im)proved.

No Going Back

The work of CLA scholars has never been more urgent or relevant. Examples of our faculty and students engaged in being their best reveal the transformative power of the liberal arts in a rapidly changing world.


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Classroom to Career

CLA's Career Readiness Initiative was designed to ensure graduates can articulate the Liberal Arts Advantage—at its heart is a set of ten core competencies, essential both to professional success and a liberal arts education.

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Public Life Starts Here

The Public Life Project engages and embraces the challenges of division, polarization, and extremism in our midst and models how to build an engaged, informed, and empathetic student body. 

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The Pillsbury Dream Realized

This September, Pillsbury reopened as a home for the Department of English and the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, showing the University’s deepening investment in the humanities.

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The Unifying Power of the Arts

Gifts to CLA’s Departments of Art, Theatre Arts & Dance, and the School of Music create opportunities for students and accelerate the practices of our faculty and visiting artists. 

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Preserving Culture in Times of Crisis and Change

Soil, seeds, and stories. With them, the Healing Roots team is transforming the Cedar Riverside Plaza landscape and community. And as wildlife-friendly plants and rain gardens replace traditional turf, the stories of the neighborhood’s immigrant elders are being recorded and honored, leading to new knowledge.

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