CASL ("castle") is home of five graduate programs, 32 undergraduate majors, and cutting-edge programs in environmental sciences, science and mathematics education, religious diversity and Arab American Studies, health policy and health psychology, civic engagement and leadership, policy and law, and our automotive heritage. CASL programs reflect our commitment to building a vibrant metropolitan region, and to preparing our students for leadership in Metro Detroit. Most importantly, CASL offers education in the liberal arts and sciences—the basic tools students need to be successful professionals and effective citizens.
CASL News
"November Indulge" helps to provide much needed scholarship support
The CASL Alumni Affiliate hosted its twelfth annual fund-raising event this past November 7 at the...
Mathematics Department hosts successful symposium on Complexity and Business Analytics
The Great Lakes Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) sponsored the...
Public Affairs Internship Program hosts largest internship class
For the 2007-2008 year, the Public Affairs Internship Program was our largest internship class —...
Upcoming Events
Asian Pacific Islander American History and the Law
A series of six presentations: 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 & 3/10. 1030 CASL Building, 6:10-9 p.m....
"Liberal education ... frees the mind from the constraints of a particular moment and set of circumstances, ... permits one to see possibilities that are not immediately apparent, to understand things in a larger context, to think about situations conceptually and analytically, to draw upon a base of master knowledge when faced with specific situations. ... It equips a student for life far more richly and completely, and across a far wider expanse of time and space, than does education whose sole aim is to be useful."
--Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
"The only education that prepares us for change is a liberal education. ... We need the flexible intellectual tools to be problem solvers, to be able to continue learning over time."
--David Kearns, former CEO of Xerox