xvi Whether made clear as an expectation by your president or provost, or initiated within Arts and Sciences itself, doing development—that is, creating the relationships that lead to successful fundraising—has become an increasingly important role for deans. Successful develop- ment experience also has become critical for those who wish to advance beyond the deanship. Yet Arts and Sciences deans face unique challenges in fundraising. Professional-school deans can make a case for their special niche, and they often focus almost exclusively on graduate or professional educa- tion. The Arts and Sciences dean has to represent the crucial importance of the liberal arts—and often of undergraduate education as well—to prospective donors whose commitment to the life of the mind and learning for its own sake may be limited at best. Unlike their counter- parts in professional schools, Arts and Sciences deans oversee a myriad of departments and interdisciplinary programs and intersect with every other office on campus. Most graduates who majored in the Arts and Sciences identify with the larger university or with their individual department, not with the Arts and Sciences college as a whole. Indeed, many may not even know that they received their education from a college of Arts and Sciences. Thus, they may consider giving donations either to the University or, perhaps, to their department, but rarely to the college of Arts and Sciences. In addition, University-based develop- ment offices wary of the politics of departmentally based faculties, the near-tribal hostilities between humanists and scientists, and squabbling departments within Arts and Sciences, are tempted to concentrate on professional school fundraising and avoid Arts and Sciences’ needs. Despite these challenges, private fundraising can yield great rewards to Arts and Sciences colleges, allowing them to educate their students in exciting new ways, strengthen faculty teaching and research, and make Arts and Sciences a more important part of the university. For those donors who truly wish to leave a legacy, and to help young people have the opportunities they deserve, private giving to Arts and Sciences holds the potential to have a significant impact on the next generation. With this as context, the CCAS Board of Directors authorized its Executive Director to identify CCAS deans and former deans to prepare