Peter J. Schraeder has served since July 2020 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. The College is comprised of 20 academic departments, 31 interdisciplinary programs, and 7 interdisciplinary centers that span the Computational Sciences, Fine and Performing Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. It serves as the academic home for over 450 full-time and 250 part-time faculty and 87 full-time staff members who together oversee the teaching and research mentorship of nearly 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students (roughly 50 percent of Loyola’s total student population across four campuses). The College offers more than 2,000 classes each semester, including 88 percent of all Core Curriculum classes taken by students from across the university.

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