33 1993-1994 New Standing Committees are created by the Board on RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITIES COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTIONS 1995 Dick Hopkins continues as Executive Director until former CCAS member Ernest (Ernie) Peck assumes the position in 1998 CCAS moves to a new host institution—Arizona State University Lee R. EDWARDS UNIVERSITY of MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST In my years as dean, I liked CCAS’s prac- ticality, its friendliness, and its emphasis on grounding theoretical discussion in the day-to-day realities of campus life. As the cost of education has increased and the economy has weakened, the status of the liberal arts and sciences has declined and the underpinnings of the traditional brick and mortar campus have eroded, with a concomitant emphasis on vocational, immediately useful, affordable, frequently long distance education. These changed and changing contexts obviously impinge on decanal concerns—funding, hiring, collegiate/curricular organization, faculty morale, graduate programs and support. CCAS, I’m sure, continues to provide a forum where these concerns can be both shared and addressed with a minimum of whining and a maximum of flexibility. 2001-2002