How do others recognize the quality of the liberal arts education at the U?
In 2002 alone, students in the College of Arts & Sciences won four highly competitive scholarships: Fulbright, Udall, Truman, and Goldwater. The U was 1 of only 14 higher education institutions in the nation to attain this distinction. Others included Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The U has been named a Truman Honor Institution for having had a Truman Scholar in six of seven years. Other schools named as Truman Honor Institutions include Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke, Princeton, and Stanford. Only about 45 out of 3800 institutions of higher education in the nation are Truman Honor Institutions. The U has gained national recognition for hosting three distinctive Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) sites, all directed by Arts & Sciences faculty, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Hosting three REU sites is a distinction matched by only one or a few institutions across the nation in any given year. In spring 2003, the Association of American Colleges and
