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. AAC&U staff also regularly speak on the value of liberal education at various media and public affairs events. 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.

Many staff members this fall have been on the road participating in Campus-Community Dialogues as part of AAC&U's Presidents' Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning. AAC&U Vice President Andrea Leskes and AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider attended the dialogue at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) on October 8th, at which President Schneider was a featured speaker. President Schneider was also the featured speaker at the event sponsored by Duke University and North Carolina State University on October 10th and the event co-sponsored by the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Prince George's Community College October 22nd. AAC&U Vice President Debra Humphreys spoke on October 16 at the dialogue co-sponsored by Southern Oregon University, Oregon Institute of Technology, and Rogue Community College and AAC&U Vice President Caryn McTighe Musil participated in a dialogue on October 31 sponsored by the Association of Independent Colleges of New Jersey. Watch for news of upcoming dialogues across the country.

AAC&U Senior Fellow Barbara Hill attended the Arts and Humanities Summit of the University System of North Dakota, on October 6-8 and spoke on an opening plenary panel, "National Perspectives on the Arts and Humanities." She also spoke at a concurrent session on the AAC&U report, "Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College." She was also part of a three-person panel on the North Dakota public radio show "Hear it Now," speaking on the topic of "Liberal Education in the 21st Century."

AAC&U Director of Programs Ross Miller discussed the Greater Expectations National Panel report during the National Education Association Foundation symposium in Chicago, Nov. 8-9, relating the report's recommendations to the symposium topic of using data to improve educator professional development.

On October 7, AAC&U Vice President Andrea Leskes attended the Forum of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Leskes also met in October with the faculty of York College (York, PA) for a 2-day retreat to discuss trends in general education reform and the GEx vision of liberal education for the 21st century. Leskes addressed a group of international educators at the College Board in Washington on October 24. The topic was the GEx vision of a new academy.
On November 4, she also served on a panel at a joint meeting of the Conference Board and the National Alliance of Business in New York City. On November 7th, Leskes described the GEx vision of a new academy and liberal education for the 21st century at a meeting of the Independent Educational Consultants Association in Washington, DC.

AAC&U Vice President Andrea Leskes and AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider attended the inauguration of Michael Bassis as president of Westminster College in Salt Lake City on October 18th. At the same time, Westminster held a campus community dialogue at which the GEx report was discussed, and where President Schneider was a featured speaker.

AAC&U vice presidents Alma Clayton-Pedersen and Debra Humphreys attended a meeting held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on October 11th. The meeting of higher education leaders was sponsored by Learning Matters, Inc. and The Merrow Report to advise producers John Merrow and Robert E. Frye on a PBS series they are planning about higher education in the 21st century. The meeting was one of three being held around the country to explore the challenges facing higher education and the meaning of those challenges to individuals, families, the nation, and the world.

AAC&U Senior Fellow Karen Oates spoke about AAC&U's SENCER initiative at a number of events in October, including the National Society for Experiential Education (October 1-4), the Project Kaleidoscope Science for All Workshop (October 11-13), and the Southern Regional Learning Communities Conference (October 24-27).

AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider was the closing plenary speaker at the National Summit of the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good in Ann Arbor, MI, on November 1st.

AAC&U Senior Fellow, Richard P. Keeling, spoke at several conferences and events in October including giving a campus-wide lecture, "Gender, Sexuality, and Substance Abuse," at Pace University October 3, a presentation, "The Mind Is Alive...But Different," at Texas Christian University October 9, and the keynote address at the North Central College Health Association in Green Bay, WI, October 10.