Carl STRIKWERDA THE COLLEGE of WILLIAM & MARY Faculty members treasure their critical role in hiring colleagues, scheduling courses, and selecting department chairs. Yet faculties only enjoy this realm of relative freedom because they are employed by bureaucracies that must command large financial resources and manage daunting political pressures. CCAS taught me that deans balance these contradictory impulses towards free- dom and necessity. Four of the most satisfying achievements of my career involved paying back to CCAS: bringing the CCAS offices to William and Mary; hiring Anne-Marie McCartan as Executive Director; helping to launch the first CCAS strategic plan; and serving as CCAS treasurer while another generation of deans learned how to protect faculty freedoms and to deal with the necessary evils of managing resources to support that freedom. 2006-2011 TREASURER 61