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 President Carol Geary Schneider attended a conference cosponsored by the Johnson Foundation and the Society for Values in Higher Education, "Religion, Public Life, and Higher Education," at the Wingspread center July 13-15. On July 27, she presented on a featured panel at the annual meeting of the Society for College and University Planning in Washington, DC.

Andrea Leskes, AAC&U vice president for education and quality initiatives, traveled to Orlando, Florida, July 25-26 to deliver a presentation on greater expectations in accreditation to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Institute on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation. From July 28 to 30, Leskes attended the fifteenth annual international conference of the American Association of University Administrators in Bremen, Germany, where she participated in a panel discussion on Greater Expectations.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, presented a plenary address to a meeting of presidents of small residential Canadian colleges at Bishop's University in Lennoxville on August 3. She discussed AAC&U's new campaign, Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), and talked about ways to make the case for the importance of liberal education in the twenty-first century. On August 15 she will travel to Phoenix, Arizona, to present a plenary address on the LEAP campaign and the recommendations from AAC&U's Greater Expectations report at Mesa Community College's convocation.

AAC&U Senior Vice President Caryn McTighe Musil gave the commencement address at Cottey College's graduation ceremony on May 15. Her speech, "Dream Launchers," focused on education that cultivates the agency, courage, and vision needed to dream new worlds into being. The speech is available online.