The college's new Center for a Livable World is proud to announce the "Toward a Livable World" Executive Workshop to be held at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas on June 1-3.

The goal of this workshop is to assemble a select group of 20 key actors in the sustainable development dialogue to develop a set of consensus recommendations about the roadmap to a livable future.

Click here to learn more about the workshop, including a list of our sponsors and information about how to become a sponsor of this event.

Dr. John Allen Hendrick's new book, Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House, examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American president.

Dr. Lucas Hollar was awarded the NASPAA Annual Dissertation Award, which is considered among the most prestigious awards in the nation.

Commanding Lincoln’s Navy by Dr. Stephen Taaffe, professor of History, was recently published by the Naval Institute Press.

Dr. Mark Sanders, Chair of the English Department will have his poems "In Hurricane, with Horses" and "Early Morning on Farm Road" included in the spring/summer 2009 issue of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review

In July 2008, the College of Liberal and Applied Arts surveyed our alumni to discover their opinions about the education they received.

According to our former students, they overwhelmingly agreed to having obtained an education that equipped them to compete successfully in the contemporary marketplace. We can do the same for you. Please consider joining us so that you can be among the best prepared to achieve success across a lifetime.