x Matthew C. Moen Matthew C. Moen is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Political Science, and Lohre Distinguished Professor at the University of South Dakota. Before returning to his native state in 2002, Dr. Moen worked for sixteen years at the Univer- sity of Maine as a faculty member, department chair, and special assistant to the president. He published five books and was named University of Maine Trustee Professor. Past leadership roles include president of the New England Political Science Asso- ciation, chairperson of the Professional Ethics Committee of the American Political Science Association, and president of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences—the national arts and sciences dean’s organization. He received a Ph.D. through the Carl Albert Congressional Studies Center at the University of Okla- homa, serving as a Congressional Fellow in the 1980s. He received a B.A. with honors from Augustana College, which honored him with its Alumni Achievement Award in 2005. Dr. Moen is part of a collaboration on interdisciplinarity in the academy that will be published by Oxford University Press, and he speaks and writes about the place of the liberal arts and sciences in the academy. Carl J. Strikwerda Carl J. Strikwerda is President and Professor of History at Eliza- bethtown College, in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Calvin College, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. As an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William and Mary, he was active in the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences and served as the Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of CCAS. He has enjoyed working with numerous donors and foundations to build academic and outreach programs. His academic interests are in the history of globalization, including teaching a course at Elizabethtown College on “Peace and War in a Global World.” He would like to thank the following development officers, former