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, will visit and speak at four AAC&U member institutions in the month of March: Transylvania University, St. Louis Community College, Utah Valley State College, and Salt Lake Community College. She also will speak at the annual conference of the National Education Association in Washington, DC, on March 29.

Terrel Rhodes, AAC&U vice president for quality, curriculum, and assessment, traveled to Ottawa, Canada, on February 5 and 6 at the invitation of the Learning Policy Directorate of Canada’s federal department of Human Resources and Social Development. Rhodes presented a talk on "Accounting for Quality when Quality Counts” and met with representatives of several Canadian federal offices.  On February 19, Rhodes met with a strategic planning council at Southern New Hampshire University to discuss national trends in higher education assessment and policy and AAC&U essential learning outcomes.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, will lead a workshop on assessing global awareness at the March 28 New England Educational Assessment Network meeting, “Dialogues Across the Disciplines: Focusing on General Education Outcomes.” More information about the meeting can be found  at www.neean.org. Hovland also participated in the 65th Annual Meeting of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, February 21-22, in Austin, Texas, as part of the Educated Citizen and Public Health project—a partnership between AAC&U and APTR.

Ross Miller, AAC&U senior director of assessment for learning, will travel to Columbia College Chicago to speak to the faculty on planning intentional pathways for achieving general and liberal education outcomes. His March 14 presentation will also address the ways in which study in the major can contribute to achieving graduation levels of particular institution-wide outcomes.