College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)

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Created at: 2021-09-16 14:43:19

Brief description of the program: The mission of CLAS is to offer a diverse student body a broad and rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences. We prepare students for many types of occupations and for further study in graduate and professional school. Our graduates benefit from attending a public, urban, research-intensive university, a mission CLAS contributes to greatly. Vision Our vision for CLAS in 2020 is of an even more research-intensive and student-centered college with greater enrollment and a more diverse faculty. We envision CLAS students taking fewer general education courses and more middle- and upper-division courses taught by tenure-track faculty. Students will be enriched by new opportunities for internships, research, and community engagement, which will make them more attractive to employers and graduate programs. Source: https://clas.wayne.edu/about/strategic-plan

Focus areas of this engagement: Arts / Culture; Community / Economic Development; Human / Social Services; Inclusion / Access; Natural Environment

Community needs and community participation in assessing those needs.: Documentation of written and oral histories; archiving; interns to assist nonprofits with higher level tasks and projects; archeology digs; etc.

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Additional Comments: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) supports many activities under the community engagement umbrella which are listed individually in this Registry (for example, the Humanities Clinic). This entry is meant to convey the depth of community par