AAC&U officers and staff regularly travel throughout the country, and occasionally the world, to speak and consult at AAC&U member schools through seminars, institutes, and workshops as well as in more informal gatherings. These meetings are an opportunity for the membership to influence the direction of AAC&U's initiatives. We look forward to seeing you the next time we are on your campus.

Andrea Leskes, AAC&U vice president for education and quality initiatives, gave a plenary presentation on "General Education: An Overview at the Turn of the 21st Century" Sept 2nd at Marietta College, in Marietta Ohio. She also consulted with the general education curriculum committee and the entire faculty about their on-going examination of general education on campus. Marietta College sent a team to the Asheville Institute on General Education in June 2001.

President Carol Geary Schneider recently returned from a presentation on "Contemporary Goals for Undergraduate Learning" at a conference of Minnesota State Colleges & Universities on the value of liberal education. On October 2, President Schneider delivered a keynote entitled "Diversity as a Catalyst for Educational Excellence" at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell's seventh Diversity Symposium.

Debra Humphreys, vice president for communications and public affairs, participated in a segment about the pros and cons of online learning on the CNN Financial News program, Market Call. Humphreys and Andrew Rosen, chief operating officer of Kaplan, Inc. were both interviewed on August 27th in the segment by CNNfn Anchor, Rhonda Schaffler.