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.

Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U president, participated in a Teagle Foundation meeting in early May to discuss next steps following the release of last winter’s New Leadership for Student Learning and Accountability statement. She also gave the keynote address at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Liberal Arts luncheon on May 29. Titled “College Learning in the New Global Century,” she spoke about the role of AAC&U’s Shared Futures initiative and the importance of making global learning outcomes a central part of every institutions’ liberal education. Schneider gave a presentation to the Washington Higher Education Secretariat (WHES) on June 3; her presentation, titled “Aim High—And Make Excellence Inclusive,” focused on AAC&U’s 2008-2012 Strategic Plan. Schneider will give a plenary session with George Mehaffey, vice president of academic leadership and change at AASCU, at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) Annual Meeting on July 16. The session, titled “Advancing Student Learning: What Must Be Done?”, will focus on AAC&U’s work on assessing student learning through Greater Expectations and the VALUE project along with AASCU’s work on its Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA).

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president, gave a presentation, with colleague Kathryn Peltier Campbell, at the National Council for Research on Women Annual Conference, “Hitting the Ground Running: Research, Activism, and Leadership for a New Era,” on June 6 at New York University. The presentation was part of a panel titled, “Transforming Higher Education: Access, Inclusion, Diversity.”

Alma Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, will facilitate a session on Inclusive Excellence at the Higher Education Resources Services’ Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on June 27.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, delivered the keynote address at the Sungard Higher Education Client Services Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida, on June 10.

Terrel Rhodes, AAC&U vice president for quality, curriculum, and assessment, directed AAC&U’s Annual Institute on General Education, May 30-June 4, on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. There were 32 campus teams and 197 participants in attendance. On June 5, Rhodes spoke to the American Council on Education’s Washington International Education Group on the “Response to the OECD Test of Collegiate Learning Outcomes” along with Madeleine Green, vice president for International Initiatives at the American Council on Education. He also will present a workshop on Valid Assessment of Student Learning at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators annual International Assessment and Retention Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, June 12-25.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, spoke at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania, on May 19 for a faculty workshop on creating courses to satisfy a new general education diversity requirement.

Ross Miller, AAC&U senior director of assessment for learning, traveled to Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, on May 14 to speak at a faculty workshop on general education revision. The workshop included discussions of achieving multiple outcomes, identifying current assessments of continuing value, and finding combinations of pedagogy and learning experiences that are especially effective in helping Arcadia students meet essential learning goals.