Richard HOPKINS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 1987-1998 Ibecame Executive Director in the summer of 1987 when the office of the Secretary-Treasurer moved to Ohio State from Kansas State and G. Michael Riley succeeded Bill Stamey as Secre- tary-Treasurer. I soon found that the Council’s officers and directors had a large view of the services CCAS could provide to the liberal arts and sciences and to education more generally. Underway were grant applications and planning for an exchange with Japanese A&S deans and for a program to improve teaching in both college and high school classrooms. In 1989, twelve deans from Japanese universities attended the CCAS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, then went home with Board Member deans to visit and study operations at those U.S. universities. In 1993 the CCAS board member sponsors paid a return visit to a general meeting with their Japanese hosts at the University of Tsukuba, then went home with the Japanese sponsors to view the functions of Japanese dean offices. Domestically, the Council’s Board sought to provide information services to A&S deans at both public AND private institutions. CCAS members approved the change in the CCAS constitution to permit private colleges to become members. Board members also sought participation by private college deans who were members of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD) in a new program to offer discussion of decanal operations with faculty members newly appointed as deans. These Seminars for New Deans offered sessions in both eastern and western venues, following the pattern of Deans’ Seminars being held in eastern and western cities each year. The Seminars for New Deans were so popular with their alumni that the Board undertook a similar program for department chairs by the mid-1990’s, with an eastern venue and a western venue offered each year. The Council’s Annual Meetings (and the Deans Seminar when it was introduced prior to my time) always had been places for discussion of the problems and opportunities of liberal arts and sciences education in public universities; by the time I retired in 1998, the Board of Directors had successfully expanded that function in both coverage and location. Those eleven years literally broadened my horizons in many, many ways. I wouldn’t exchange that time for any other reward, for it turned my faculty view of “the dean” a full 180 degrees. 63