The Minority Arts and Science Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder will have its largest class of incoming humanities and social science students this year.
For the first time the program's incoming humanities class will be larger than the science class. Fourteen new social science and humanities students have enrolled in addition to 11 new students in selected scientific fields.
According to MASP Director Alphonse Keasley the shift is good. "For awhile MASP had the reputation of only being a science program. But this shows the word is getting out that we have both science and humanities programs."
Keasley also plans eventually to include more academic disciplines in the MASP curriculum. "This year we are going to make a big push to bring in students who are interested in lively arts, such as theater, dance and the visual media."
The faculty board for the new lively arts focus is already in place and has created the enrichment curriculum for MASP.
MASP is an academic excellence program designed to assist under-represented minority scholars in their successful matriculation in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
For more information contact the Minority Arts and Science Program at (303) 492-8229 or visit the Web: .