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 participate in the the Aspen Institute’s inaugural Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, DC, October 1-2. Schneider will also speak at Yale University on October 21 at the China-Yale Advanced University Leadership Program; she will give a plenary address titled, “Innovations in Liberal Arts Curriculum” to China’s leading university administrators.

Susan Albertine, AAC&U senior director of LEAP state initiatives, joined a panel presentation on LEAP and the prospects for general education at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 20, with general education leaders from Rhodes College and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Albertine traveled to Minot, North Dakota, on September 18, 2009, to deliver a keynote address titled, “Thinking GE across the System” to college and university representatives from across the state of North Dakota, including public, private, and tribal institutions.

Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, will serve on the capacity and preparatory review committee for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges' (WASC) accreditation review of Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California, on October 6-8, 2009. WASC seeks to promote better understanding of the principles of educational effectiveness through accreditation review.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, will travel to Eastern Michigan University on October 16, where he will address the university community on national global learning trends, meet with a group of administrators, and attend a meeting of EMU’s Global Learning Seminar. Representatives from Eastern Michigan University participated in the AAC&U Shared Futures Global Learning Forum in March 2009.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, facilitated two workshops at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on September 22, on general education and intentional institutional planning focused on the LEAP essential learning outcomes. She also presented to a first-year seminar at American University on what really matters in college on September 18.