Since higher education institutions were established on our shores, the liberal Arts and Sciences have been the intellectual centerpiece of the American University. The Europeans who founded Harvard and the College of William and Mary–the first American universities –were committed to the seven liberal arts of medieval times, usually subdivided into a trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) and quadrivium (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, music). Today, many public and private Colleges and Universities reflect this heritage through a freestanding college of Arts and Sciences housing academic departments in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, and sciences. Of the 500 CCAS institutions, about 60 percent have a dean of Arts and Sciences. Other Colleges and Universities distribute depart- ments among separate colleges of Arts and Humanities, Fine Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and/or Sciences. But no matter the specific structure, the academic departments comprising the liberal Arts and Sciences are the core of the University. A college of Arts and Sciences will typically house somewhere around 50 percent of all undergradu- ates at a major research University, and an even higher percentage at a residential liberal arts college. Remaining undergraduates and graduate/ professional students are usually spread across schools such as agricul- ture, architecture, business, dentistry, education, engineering, health sciences, law, marine sciences, medicine, or pharmacy. The importance of Arts and Sciences can be seen in the 2010 Carn- egie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching report that classifies Arts and Sciences on Campus Matthew C. Moen 2