Shippensburg University College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter Spring 2024
Focused on Student Success A Message from the Dean
College of Arts and Sciences SU Foundation | 2 CAS Administrators and Chairs | 3 Faculty Focus | 4 Baja Project | 5 Alumni Spotlight | 5 Student Spotlight | 6 Internship Spotlight | 6 Minds@Work | 7 Spring Study Abroad Trip | 8
Greetings! It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to visit the pages of our rejuvenated College of Arts and Sciences (plus Engineering) Newsletter and to add my dean’s note to the wealth of joyful and heartwarming updates you are going to find in the upcoming pages. In a university newsletter, the Maroon Tiger (1947) published at Morehouse, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., astutely asserted that the dual objective of a good education is both utilitarian as well as moral. Today, as we recognize the role of AI and workforce development needs, in addition to a polemically divided society, nothing is more significant for learning at our College of Arts and Sciences than preparing our students, through education, that serves the utilitarian needs and the needs of a moral and ethical citizenry, locally, and globally. In the same letter in the Maroon Tiger, Dr. King stated, “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.” We, in the College of Arts and Sciences, indisputably concur. In a world beset by uncertainties and turbulence caused by violent conflicts, famines, climate chaos, internet commentators, and political upheavals that erode away at human civility and civilization, Ship offers an academic community of faculty, staff, and students who are passionate about and dedicated to sustaining humanity through critical thought for problem-solving and thoughtful and civic actions learned in and outside their classrooms. You will see an embodiment of this ethos in the subsequent pages—read away!
Sabita Manian, PhD
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
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