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 receive an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the College of Wooster on May 12. She will also participate in the Mount Holyoke College Trustees Meeting at the beginning of May.

Alma Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, spent several weeks in New York City in April and May doing grant-focused work with the CUNY system. Clayton-Pedersen worked with Henry Vance Davis, CUNY dean for recruitment and diversity, to develop a new project, Dialogue on Strategic Priorities and Initiatives for Inclusive Excellence (DSPIIE). The initiative will expand over the next five years and will echo the AAC&U principle of inclusive excellence.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, presented at a conference, “Liberal Education and Wisconsin’s Promise: Building Leadership, Advocacy, and Support for What Really Matters in College,” cosponsored by the office of the Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor and the University of Wisconsin System as part of its participation in AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise initiative. The conference was held April 29-30, 2008, at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, WI.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president, recently finished a diversity consultation and report with high-level administrators, faculty and staff at Otis College in Los Angeles, California, on March 6. Musil also facilitated a workshop on inclusive women’s leadership, in conjunction with Donna Kay Maeda, at Empire State College in Syracuse, New York, on March 13 as part of the Campus Women Lead network. She then went to Ohio, April 1-4, on a three-school swing, giving a plenary address at Bowling Green State University regarding Core Commitments; visiting one of the Shared Futures project schools, Otterbein College, to discuss progress on developing a general education curriculum with a global focus; and giving the keynote address to a conference for Ohio Campus Compact. Musil also attended the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers on April 14-15 to serve as a consultant for the National Science Foundation.