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.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U’s director for global learning and curricular change, was the opening speaker for the annual fall workshop at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN), August 23. He spoke on the meaning of Concordia’s new core curriculum theme, "Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the World," drawing on AAC&U’s LEAP report and Shared Futures initiative.

AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider traveled to Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, on August 30, to speak at the Dominican University Faculty Workshop. On September 8, Dr. Schneider will speak at the Broad Seminar on Education for a Global Economy, sponsored by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, and the following day she will deliver the keynote address at the Educational Leadership Conference of the American Psychological Association.

Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president of education and institutional renewal, will address faculty and administrators at Dominican University’s (River Forest, IL) launch of the new Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. She will also meet with academic and staff leaders during her September 17-18 visit, which will focus on how such centers can serve as catalysts to make excellence inclusive.