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 September 19-21, 2003, Andrea Leskes, vice president for education and quality initiatives, will travel to Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, for the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Bulgaria.

Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs, Debra Humphreys, delivered the keynote speech at Montgomery College's fall opening meeting on Wednesday, August 27th. She discussed AAC&U's report, Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College, in the context of challenges faced particularly by community colleges.

For the month of September 2003, President Carol Geary Schneider will be in residence at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching writing about doctoral education and liberal learning. President Schneider will resume her duties in October.

On August 17-19, 2003, Vice President for the Office, of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives Caryn McTighe Musil visited Marietta College (OH) to present a diversity curriculum workshop to sixty faculty at the college.