The Liberal & Applied Arts Academic and Career Advising Office is open for advising. Make your appointment early!

If you are an LAA student and have fewer than 45 earned hours, contact us at (936)468-2205 or stop by Ferguson 290 to schedule an advising appointment.

Watch our bulletin board (located next to F290) for updates and walk-in advising times.

*REMEMBER* Students with majors in History, RDTV, Social Work, Sociology, or Spanish/French must contact their major department for available advising dates. Creative Writing and Liberal Studies students should contact their own advisor for appointment times.

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.