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of Students and as Vice-President for Student Affairs. Closer to home, in November 2000 Katie Nash announced that she would be retiring from the University in July 2001, concluding ten years of devoted service as the Dean of Students in the College. I am grateful to the faculty and student search committees, ably coordinated by Danielle Allen and Bill Michel, who conducted a national search for Katie’s successor, and who recommended Susan Art as the new Dean of Students in the College. Susan has already articulated some of her ambitious goals this afternoon, and I am sure that all of us will want to offer her as much support and encouragement as possible. The new Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, under the leadership of David Bevington, Bert Cohler, and the other Senior Fellows, continues to contribute significantly to strengthening our Harper-Schmidt postdoctoral Fellowship program. The society has sponsored a number of formal events for the Junior Fellows, including a very congenial dinner for the Fellows and their guests that was held at the Smart Museum last December. Perhaps more importantly, it has also initiated a program of lunches and workshops that bring the Senior and Junior Fellows together for stimulating conversations and discussions about scholarly and pedagogical matters. I believe that the new support structures that we put in place last year are having the positive, forward-looking effects we hoped for. Given the crucial role that the Fellows play in the College’s general-education programs, this kind of growing collegiality is all the more important. The Dickson Instructors, who hold postdoctoral positions analogous to the Harper and Schmidt Fellows, continue to make very valuable contributions to the Department of Mathematics and its undergraduate teaching programs. Unlike the Harper and Schmidt Fellows, however, the Dickson Instructors have traditionally been viewed as regular, if untenured, members of the Department of Mathematics, so that the