College of Humanities
& Fine Arts
| “PREPARING FOR LIFE”: Audie Cornish with Dean Lee Edwards (Photo courtesty of the Dean's Office) |
Dean Lee Edwards likes to say of students that “We’re not just training them to make a living, we’re preparing them to make a life.” She says she continues both to teach and to host such events as a monthly student breakfast because she thinks the personal dimension is essential to their campus experience.
“I remember it was at one of our breakfasts that I first met Audie Cornish,” says the dean about the subject of the story on these pages. “Even then I could see that there was something very dynamic and committed in her manner.
“Whether our meeting had anything to do with her seeking out a Perlman Scholarship, I can’t say – still, I like to think it made her view the college as a place that was interested in her future, encouraging her to seek out opportunities available within it.”
As of last year HFA had:
2,594 undergraduate majors
707 graduate students
285 faculty in: Afro-American studies / art / art history / Asian languages
& literatures / classics / comparative literature / English / film
studies / French & Italian / Germanic languages & literatures
/ history / journalism / Judaic & Near Eastern studies / linguistics
/ music & dance / philosophy / Spanish & Portuguese / theater
/ women’s studies
