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.

On October 2-3, President Carol Geary Schneider traveled to St. Louis to participate in the fall faculty symposium at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE). She delivered the keynote address, met with faculty and administrators, and also spoke at a campus-community dialogue hosted by SIUE.

Schneider will travel to Detroit on October 9-10 to speak at the annual conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, being hosted at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State University

On October 22, she will attend the Board of Trustees meetings at Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Andrea Leskes, vice president for education and quality initiatives, attended the Board of Trustees meeting for the American University in Bulgaria on September 19-21, 2003, in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Dr. Leskes was elected to the board in May 2003 for a three-year term.