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 speak at the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Annual Meeting, December 7, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia. Schneider will present at a session titled, “The Baccalaureate Degree: Meaning, Integrity, and Quality,” with Tom Benberg, SACS chief of staff.

Susan Albertine, AAC&U senior director of LEAP state initiatives, traveled to Oregon on November 5, where she met with campus representatives from the Oregon University System campuses. Albertine also met with faculty at the University of Portland to discuss LEAP. November 9-10, Albertine traveled to Philadelphia to give a presentation on LEAP and Public Health Studies at the American Public Health Association convention. Albertine also traveled to New York City on November 16 to attend CUNY’s New Community College meeting to discuss LEAP in the context of integrative public health studies.

Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, served as a plenary session panelist at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation conference—Opportunities-Excellence: Realizing the Promise of Higher Education, held in Toronto on November 12-13.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, gave a keynote address on November 20 at the statewide Kentucky Civic Engagement conference, Engaged to be Educated. Her keynote address focused on the data from AAC&U’s new Core Commitments monograph, Civic Responsibility: What is the Climate for Learning? Musil will also make two presentations, one for faculty and one for senior staff, at the “Diversity in a Global Context: Meeting at the Intersections” conference on the University of Iowa campus, December 4, 2009. The sessions will focus on internationalization and its intersections with globalization issues and diversity.

Terrel Rhodes, AAC&U vice president for quality, curriculum, and assessment, will participate in workshops focused on VALUE rubrics at the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, December 5-8.