2008 Jean Pokorny is hired as the first Graphic Designer 45 An “Open Letter from CCAS to the Next President and Congress of the United States” lays out our priorities of affordable, fair, and open funding for research, improved educational infrastructure, greater support of the arts and humanities, and more international education opportunities The first CCAS Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award is given to The Phi Beta Kappa Society Matthew C. MOEN UNIVERSITY of SOUTH DAKOTA My 2008 presidential address, “Aristotle in an Era of Account- ability,” summarized the chal- lenges facing liberal education, took aim at the forces under- mining our great intellectual tradition, and outlined steps that CCAS might take to bolster our cause. The economic calamity of 2008 intro- duced a series of changes in the higher education environment that may take a generation to resolve. We’ve hit a price point with students and parents. We’ve taken reputational hits at the hands of policymakers and disreputable for-profit univer- sities; we’ve been besieged by an accountability movement that has grown excessive and by cottage industries that monetize higher education. We will need to push hard for liberal educa- tion so that our descendants someday remember us as good ancestors. 2007-2008