GO Campaign

GO: Beyond, The Campaign for Future Makers is a historic, comprehensive undertaking that encompasses hundreds of initiatives to support our four colleges, athletics, international programs, and more. This vitally important fundraising and engagement effort will strengthen our ability to ensure talented students have access to the Lehigh experience and a vibrant environment; prepare students with powerful experiential learning opportunities necessary for success; and fuel a community of researchers and thought-leaders who drive progress.

Robust and vibrant programming and curricula in the arts and sciences are essential to Lehigh's reputation as a leading university. Excellence in teaching, research, and artistic activities is our mission. The College needs your help to achieve the highest level of success in our top priorities that includes:

Graduate programs

Advancing our research impact in the in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities will push the boundaries of human knowledge to solve the most complex problems facing the 21st century and bring prestige to Lehigh University. Graduate students play a pivotal role in the College of Arts and Sciences ability to attract and retain leading faculty who seek to move their teaching and research priorities forward while preparing the next generation of researchers and scholars. Our graduate students both conduct original research and help realize their faculty mentors’ research goals. The work these students will produce during their careers here—both independently and with faculty mentors—reflects positively and immediately on the College and its departments. What they accomplish and what kind of jobs they receive drive the reputational surveys that determine where our departments rank nationally and internationally. 

Our path to national leadership will be paved by the success of our graduate programs.

Learn more about our graduate programs.  

Fostering Creativity and Innovation Through the Arts

Arts are an essential part of the human experience of innovation and creativity. The Arts at Lehigh strive to develop students’ ability to think critically and to deal effectively with complexity, ambiguity, and contradiction through composition, performance, and research. Through the academic departments of Art/Architecture/Design, Music, and Theatre, and our world-class Zoellner Arts Center venue that houses the Lehigh University Art Galleries, Lehigh students are exposed to both visual and performing arts, opening their minds to new ideas and new ways of experiencing the world. 

We strive to infuse the arts throughout the campus experience as we prepare students for lives of continued learning and experimentation.

Experiential Learning

Experiential learning describes the ideal process of learning, invites you to understand yourself as a learner, and empowers you to take charge of your own learning and development.

The way you learn is the way you solve problems, make decisions, and meet life’s challenges. In the College of Arts and Sciences, experiential learning supports and improves academic performance, learning and development. It’s a learning process initiated by a concrete experience, which demands reflection, review and perspective-taking about the experience. Lehigh students are able to take abstract thinking to reach conclusions and conceptualize the meaning of the experience. This leads to taking decisive actions, engaging in active experimentation, and trying out what they’ve learned.