DEAN’S MESSAGE Thank you for your interest in the College of Arts & Sciences (COAS) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — Worldwide/Online Campus! Following our vision “to be a destination college for multidisciplinary studies and impactful collaborative research, as well as continue to be a leader in general education, developing opportunities for our diverse student population to fulfill their educational goals and become responsive, responsible global citizens,” we successfully fostered our mission that is rooted in “developing and supporting career-ready graduates and advances all students to be lifelong learners and leaders in their professional disciplines.” We made significant steps toward becoming a true destination college this year by hiring new research and scholarship-strong junior faculty, expanding our research project portfolio, successfully competing for grants from institutions such as the National Science Foundation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and further increasing our publication output, as well as cultivating national and international research partnerships. We continue to develop and deliver flagship academic and research programs across disciplines to integrate research, teaching and outreach into an interdisciplinary excellence hub. This year, we added a B.S. in Safety Management and an M.S. in Occupational Safety Management and continue to build strategic minors. Our B.S. in Homeland Security has now become the first CAEMHSE-accredited homeland security bachelor’s program nation-wide. We believe in academic variety and specializations being available to our students, enabling them to tailor their academic education to their curiosity, interests
and career needs. Each of our degree programs, at the bachelor’s and master’s level, include a culminating experience, for example in the form of a capstone course, where students integrate and demonstrate their comprehensive learning from across courses in their program, which is essential to career readiness. Also, all our degree programs are STEM-designated. As is enshrined in our college’s mission statement: “Experienced faculty from diverse backgrounds prepare students to be analytically comprehensive by promoting disciplinary knowledge and the ability to conduct defensible analysis. The college supports learners through comprehensive student success components, experiential learning opportunities and engagement with public and private sector partners.” We are proud to deliver the General Education program to all students of Embry-Riddle Worldwide/Online as well as to those students from residential campuses who seek an online summer accelerator. Expect more from the College of Arts & Sciences!
Alexander Siedschlag, Ph.D., M.A. Dean and Professor Worldwide College of Arts & Sciences
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