In 1982, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recognized that many of the graduates of the colleges and universities in this country were technologically and mathematically illiterate, and an attempt to begin to remedy this serious shortcoming was launched in their New Liberal Arts Program. Lafayette College in Pennsylvania was one of the 30 liberal arts colleges invited to submit proposals to the Sloan Foundation for funds to be used in remedying these deficiencies in their own student bodies. The need was for a technologically literate faculty which would breach the barricades of prejudice and remove the hostilities and misconceptions, for the mutual benefit of everyone, between the engineers and the humanities and social science faculty. Faculty seminars were the prime ingredient of the proposal, as well as conference support, released time for study, course development funds, computer education and software acquisition support, funds for the acquisition of library materials, guest lecturers, and--after the program was underway--diverted funds for a mathematics workshop for faculty. Necessary components for success in this enterprise were: (1) a supportive administration, one which encourages innovation and which provides flexibility in teaching assignments; (2) an intellectually alive faculty committed not only to excellence in their own disciplines but also to the meaningful liberal education of their students; (3) organized and committed program and seminar leaders; and (4) people with technical skills who can present their technical knowledge to others in a noncondescending and jargon-free way. (RAE)