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About Arts & Sciences

Kendall College of Arts & Sciences offers a broad foundation in arts, humanities, languages, education, and social sciences. Students engage in research from day one, learning from internationally-renowned scholars. Experiential learning and internships are prioritized, and A&S alumni have achieved success in Congress, filmmaking, writing, composing, research, and policy-making globally.

Mission

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Kendall College of Arts & Sciences provides the core of a UTulsa education and the intellectual foundation for life in a free and democratic society. We seek to produce and disseminate knowledge and artistic expression at the highest levels, drawing on the unique opportunities provided by a student-centered learning community within a research university.

The college’s rigorous curriculum challenges, enriches, and expands students’ conceptions of the world, preparing them to ask compelling questions, address complex problems with creative solutions, engage respectfully and knowledgeably with diverse people and their cultures, speak and write persuasively and professionally, and contribute to the advancement of society in productive and meaningful ways.

Office of the Dean

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Blaine Greteman

Dean, Kendall College of Arts & Sciences
918-631-3185
blaine-greteman@utulsa.edu

Blaine Greteman, Ph.D., began his tenure as dean of The University of Tulsa’s Kendall College of Arts & Sciences on July 1, 2024. Greteman earned his doctorate in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. A Rhodes Scholar, Greteman received his master’s in English literature from Oxford after receiving his bachelor’s degree in English literature from Oklahoma State University in 1998.

Greteman’s research uses both traditional and computational analysis to explore early modern book history, poetry, and drama, including Milton and Shakespeare. He has authored two books: “The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton’s England” and “Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England.”

A former journalist for TIME Magazine and a prolific writer whose expertise includes the plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Milton, Greteman also writes for popular publications such as Slate, Newsweek, and The London Review of Books. He is a staunch advocate for the liberal arts and has a keen interest in the rapidly emerging field of artificial intelligence and how AI will affect universities of the future.

If you would like to support the vision for the College of Arts & Sciences, please consider joining the Kendall College Board of Visitors.

Dean's Executive Staff

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Lindsey Boulden

Communications and Events Coordinator

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Stephanie Boulden

Director of Operations

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Steven Buchele

Special Projects and Technical Needs Associate

Lara Foley

Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs

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Stephanie Luker

Executive Assistant to the Dean of Arts & Sciences

Danielle Macdonald

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research

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Suzanne Thompson

Senior Director of Development

Lindsey Boulden

Communications and Events Coordinator

2003 Tyrrell Hall
918-631-2208
lab428@utulsa.edu

Stephanie Boulden

Director of Operations

1040 Tyrrell Hall
918-631-3795
stephanie-boulden@utulsa.edu

Steven Buchele

Special Projects and Technical Needs Associate

113 Oliphant Hall
918-631-3012
steven-buchele@utulsa.edu

Lara Foley

Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs

1035 Tyrrell Hall
918-631-2050
lara-foley@utulsa.edu

Stephanie Luker

Executive Assistant to the Dean of Arts & Sciences

1050 Tyrrell Hall
918-631-2895
stephanie-luker@utulsa.edu

Danielle Macdonald

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research

1045 Tyrrell Hall
918-631-2351
danielle-macdonald@utulsa.edu

Suzanne Thompson

Senior Director of Development

217 Westby Hall
918-631-3152
suzy-thompson@utulsa.edu

Points of Pride

  • 94% placement rates in jobs or graduate school
  • 8:1 A&S student-to-faculty ratio
  • Current faculty have been awarded the Guggenheim, Macarthur Genius, and National Book Critics Circle Award.
  • More than 1,000 peer reviewed articles published by current Arts & Sciences faculty
  • 21 A&S students have received Fulbright Grants since 1994.
  • 27% of A&S students are first-generation college students.
  • 40% of A&S students participate in study abroad opportunities.
  • More than 60 paid D’Arcy internships since 2016
  • $834,036 active grants from the National Science Foundation
  • A&S students have won nationally-competitive awards including: Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, Boren Award, Fullbright Scholarship, and the Vance and Betty Lee Stickell Student Internship.
  • Kendall College is home to six award-winning journals: Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, SWITCHYARD, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, and the student journal Stylus.
  • Kendall College alumni include: “Outsiders” author S.E. Hinton, author Rilla Askew, Emmy-winning student director Chase Chambers, Special Assistant to the President Monte Hawkins, actor Wesam Keesh, actor and producer Julius Tennon, “Saturday Night Live” writer and Emmy winner Steven Castillo, 20th Century Studios staff writer Taylor Chukwu, and actor Wade Williams.
  • A&S Students go on to pursue graduate studies at leading universities: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, and Chicago to name a few.
  • 2,200 volunteer hours logged by Arts & Sciences students and faculty