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 delivered brief remarks at the inauguration of President Tori Haring-Smith at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, on October 25. Schneider attended the board of trustees meetings at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 27-29. She will travel to California November 9-12 to attend meetings at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and to speak at San Jose State University.

AAC&U Senior Vice President Caryn McTighe Musil and Program Assistant Natalie Jellinek, both from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, were in Phoenix October 6-8 for the American Council on Education "Educating All of One Nation" conference. The two presented a session focusing on the use of diversity as a catalyst for civic engagement and student success.

AAC&U Vice President for Education and Institutional Renewal Alma Clayton-Pedersen will travel to New York University November 4-5 to serve on a panel reviewing a report by the Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) for the College Board. On November 7, Clayton-Pedersen will deliver a plenary address, "Achieving Greater Expectations by Making Excellence Inclusive," at the Conference on People of Color at Predominately White Institutions, an event sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She will also facilitate a concurrent session at this conference on developing and using multimedia to address racial/ethnic intolerance.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, gave a presentation on AAC&U's new campaign, Liberal Education and America's Promise, at a retreat of the Higher Education Secretariat on October 21 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. On November 19, Debra Humphreys and Ross Miller, director of programs for AAC&U's Office of Education and Quality Initiatives, will present at a symposium titled "Freeing Students from Myopia? Examining the Claims of Liberal Arts Education." The symposium is being held as part of the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Andrea Leskes, AAC&U vice president for education and quality initiatives, attended a meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on higher education issues on November 2. On November 11, she will present the keynote speech at the University System of Utah’s Regents’ Task Force on General Education’s system-wide discussion of general education assessment.

Nancy O'Neill, director of programs for AAC&U's Office of Education and Institutional Renewal, will serve as a panelist for "Going Public: American Studies Outside the Academy," a session at the 2005 American Studies Association annual meeting in Washington, DC, on November 3.