Mission
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large by sponsoring occasions for scholarly interaction and providing platforms for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.In addition to awarding cash prizes to renowned scholars,the organization is dedicated to revitalizing intellectual life and restoring the intellectual rigor and diversity of American colleges, universities, and public intellectual discourse. AASL supports the fundamental and constitutive mission of colleges and universities as truth-seeking, knowledge advancing institutions in numerous ways. It produces white papers examining such topics as academic freedom and integrity, the crisis of the humanities, and the responsibilities of educators, and