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.

AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider has joined the Advisory Board for Harvard University's annual Management and Leadership in Education Institute (MLE) and led a session on trends in undergraduate education at the June MLE gathering. The institute has provided over three decades of professional development experience to more than 750 leaders of colleges and universities.

President Schneider spoke at the first annual faculty convocation at Butler University in Indianapolis. This new program was instituted by the incoming president at Butler University, Bobby Fong, a former chair of the AAC&U Board of Directors. Her campus visits in August and September 2001 include: Saint Mary's College (South Bend, IN), Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), and Minnesota State Colleges & Universities (St. Cloud, MN).

Jerry Gaff, AAC&U senior scholar and director of the Preparing Future Faculty Program, recently participated in "Learner-Centered Universities for the New Millennium" in Johannesburg, South Africa in late July. The welcome address by Nelson Mandela was the highlight of this 26th International Conference on Improving University Learning and Teaching sponsored by the University of Maryland. Mandela called for "universities in developing countries to be repositories of knowledge in order to be competitive; to utilize that knowledge to meet social needs; and to make that knowledge accessible and to facilitate learning especially among the educationally disadvantaged." Mandela affirmed that education is a major task of the transformation of these people.