Kendall College of Arts & Sciences
2025-26 DEAN’S REPORT
Arts & Sciences
13
DEPARTMENTS & SCHOOLS
From philosophy to psychology, we are the college of liberal arts and social sciences.
Our Students
91 %
37
8
7:1
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS
100% of Arts & Science students pursue minors or double majors.
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Take learning to the next level with an M.A., Ph.D., or a 3+3 B.A.+Law degree
fall-to-fall RETENTION RATE
highest on record
STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO
760 students : 103 faculty
Your Impact
98 % FIRSTGENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS
A&S students RECEIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
167 %
INCREASE IN GIVING DAY SUPPORT year on year
26 % students participating in D1 ATHLETICS
33 %
17 % students are PELL GRANT ELIGIBLE
“I will always be grateful for the support I have received from TU donors. I strive to use my academic/clinical training to ultimately give back to the Tulsa community as a mental health professional.”
Claudia
Vore, B.S. ’21, M.S. ’23 Clinical Psychology
At Kendall College, we embrace the ampersand to offer the best of both.
A historic small campus experience in a city with big opportunities. Creative discovery with faculty mentors who are global leaders in their fields. Worldclass museums, archives, and labs in our backyard. Our students and faculty collaborate on the big questions about truth, citizenship, and the pursuit of meaning as we cultivate original selfexpression in multiple forms.
For over 130 years, Kendall College has empowered students and faculty to change the world.
It sounds big, but it starts with small things: careful mentoring, personalized learning, and dedication to community. These values make Kendall College of Arts & Sciences the heart of a University of Tulsa education, and you’ll see them reflected in all the facts, figures, and achievements in this report.
We publish hundreds of books and articles on topics ranging from teaching to tequila; but what makes our research powerful is the connection to students and the classroom through programs like the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC).
We offer innovative and rigorous classes; but what makes them transformative is their connection to the community, so we started a new Course Experience program to take students out of the classroom and into local aid organizations.
I could not be more proud of the college in my second year as dean: we’ve brought theater back to campus with two sold-out student productions, restarted an award-winning speech and debate program, doubled our external research funding, and achieved the best retention rates since UTulsa started keeping records. Many of these are new initiatives, but they would not be possible without faculty and staff who have poured their hearts into UTulsa and the college for many years. If you’re already a member of the community of supporters that makes it happen, I want to thank you. And if you’re not, I hope this snapshot of our college’s research, student opportunities, and impact will encourage you to join us.
Finally, we give students the tools to achieve their dreams, but we know the first step is meeting their needs. That’s why we founded a new Emergency Fund to help students get back to the books when their lives have been sidelined by unexpected expenses.
Blaine Greteman Dean of the Kendall College of Arts & Sciences blaine-greteman@utulsa.edu
Our world-renowned researchers win major awards like the Guggenheim Fellowship and National Science Foundation grants while working closely with students in our classrooms, labs, and in the field.
Professor Danielle Macdonald working with undergraduates to research prehiostoric stone tools
2024-25
13 BOOKS PUBLISHED plus 47 articles & 15 book chapters
A world of opportunities awaits our students at home and abroad. Faculty mentors lead dozens of study abroad trips, guide students into paid internships, and usher students to success in prestigious post-graduate fellowships.
Professors David Rettinger and Stuti Thapa traveled to Nepal with UTulsa students this summer to learn about
community engagement and how they can make a difference in new cultural environments.
50 % students participating in STUDY ABROAD
20+ CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
100 % students completing a CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE
18 grant-supported EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING COURSES
Our students don’t wait for graduation to do a world of good.
Students in Art Professor Jason Rafferty’s class designed and painted a mural for children and families at Tulsa’s Domestic Violence Intervention Services.
The Mandela Washington Fellows program is a flagship program of the US State Department that brings 25 young leaders from every country in Africa to UTulsa’s campus for academic and leadership training.
65+ D’ARCY INTERNSHIPS since 2017
178 students in HANDS-ON PRACTICUM CLASSES with local community agencies
48 for-credit PUBLIC-SERVICE INTERNSHIPS
14 students in the “EVERY CAMPUS A REFUGE” PROGRAM supporting global refugees
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