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.

AAC&U Membership Director Esther Merves attended The American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting in Chicago in August to support the work of the ASA Task Force on the Major. The task force will expand the work they did with AAC&U on "Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major" to include best practices, implementation issues, and models within the context of different higher education sectors.

On September 8-9, 2002, AAC&U President Carol Schneider will visit Southern Oregon University (SOU) to participate in a faculty retreat. Later this fall, SOU will be hosting one of the 10 regional Campus-Community Dialogues as part of the Presidents' Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning (CALL). On September 12, she will join a meeting of the chief academic officers of the Pennsylvania State System schools in Harrisburg to speak about the recommendations coming out of the Greater Expectations National Panel report and their implications for general education and the major.

In August 16, Caryn McTighe Musil, vice president for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, attended the advisory board meeting of the Diverse Democracy Project, a nationally funded project based at the University of Michigan. The project explores how institutions prepare students for a diverse democracy, how students learn from diverse peers, and how different campuses achieve goals for cognitive, social, and democratic outcomes. They have done a national survey of institutions. For results, visit http://www.umich.edu/~divdemo. For more information on the project, visit http://depts.washington.edu/asccp/DiverseDemocracy.htm.

On August 16-17, Heather Wathington, director of programs for the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives participated in "The Futures of the Boyer Legacy" at the Boyer Center at Messiah College, Grantham, PA. The purpose of the meeting was to explore how various national programs might collaborate with the Boyer Center to further develop programs and extend the Boyer work.