Is the type of person who would opt to go to college naturally more inclined to be a good citizen? Or is it the college experience itself that helps make the person a good citizen?

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ visionary founder, Ruel Willoughby Tyson Jr., an esteemed scholar, colleague and mentor, passed away on May 30.

Professor Andrew J. Perrin has been named the next director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, effective July 1. He will succeed Mark Katz, who completes his IAH term at the end of the spring 2019 semester.