HISTORY

     The College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University is built on a 173-year tradition of excellence in the liberal arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities.

     The university in its present form is the result of the 1967 federation of Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 as Western Reserve College and renamed in 1884) and the neighboring Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 as Case School of Applied Sciences and renamed in 1948). The union achieved a distinctive balance among the liberal arts, applied science and technology, and professional study. In addition to the College of Arts and Sciences, CWRU encompasses the Case School of Engineering, the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, the Weatherhead School of Management, the School of Dentistry, the School of Medicine, and the School of Law.

     The College of Arts and Sciences traces its origins to several predecessor units including Adelbert College, Flora Stone Mather College, Cleveland College, Western Reserve College, and the sciences, mathematics, and humanities and social sciences programs of Case Institute of Technology. CWRU's liberal arts program was formally reconstituted in 1993 into the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. John E. Bassett was appointed its first dean. Dr. Bassett left seven years later to become the president of Clark University. Dr. Samuel M. Savin was appointed the second dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in July, 2001.