The College of Arts and Sciences (CoAS) is one of the colleges at Drexel University. It was formed in 1990 when Drexel merged the two existing College of Sciences and College of Humanities together. The importance of arts and sciences has been stressed since Drexel's founding in 1891 as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry. This is also evident in Drexel's seal, which is an equilateral triangle with Science and Industry as the sides and Art as the base. The roots of the programs currently represented by this college today can be traced to initiatives begun by departments that preceded this one throughout Drexel's history. For example, the business department was the first to offer English courses during the first year of operation. In 1914, the School of Engineering employed full professors for English, mathematics and chemistry. The College of Science was created in 1968 and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences was created in 1970. In 1990 the present-day College of Arts and Science was created from a combination of the College of Science and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.