Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni, 

As we enter the holiday break now that final exams and the fall semester are completed, please allow me to underscore my deep appreciation for everything you do to make the College of Arts and Sciences such a special academic place!
 
The College continues to thrive because of our exceptional students, devoted staff and faculty, and generous alumni and donors, all of whom are dedicated to obtaining and/or providing a world-class Jesuit Catholic-inspired education. This is the heart and soul of what we do as a College of Arts and Sciences.
 
I wish you a joyful and restful holiday break with family and friends.

Warmest regards,
Peter J. Schraeder, PhD
Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Loyola University Chicago

About the College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”