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 travel to the University of Nebraska at Omaha on March 2 to deliver the College of Arts & Sciences Kent A. Kirwan Liberal Arts Lecture during the university’s centennial celebrations. Schneider will deliver an address titled, “Intentional, Integrative and Applied: Liberal Education and the Learning Students Need.”

Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, will give a presentation on March 19 titled, “Effective Learning Practices in and out of the Classroom” at the Yes We Must Summit: Meeting President Obama’s 2020 Goal for Higher Education. This is an invitational summit for private colleges and universities that are working to increase the number of underserved students who receive a college degree, and will be held at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. On March 20, Clayton-Pedersen will facilitate a session about implementing high-impact practices throughout the curriculum and across the disciplines at the Hostos Community College faculty retreat, to be held in Bear Mountain, New York.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, gave a presentation titled, “Liberal Education Outcomes and Economic Opportunity in the New Global Economy” at a Willamette College Board Retreat in Oregon on February 19.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president and Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, cohosted a workshop with Harvey Charles, vice provost for International Education at Northern Arizona University, at the Association of International Education Administrators Annual Conference in Washington, DC, on February 15. The workshop guided participants in defining global learning, identifying global learning outcomes for their campuses, and discussing some of the promising practices to help achieve those outcomes.

Nancy O’Neill, AAC&U director of programs in the Office of Education and Institutional Renewal, and assistant director of Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, attended the Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 5, and presented a session on results of the Campus Portrait Project, a qualitative study exploring the educational change process at seven campuses participating in the Core Commitments initiative. Her session discussed important themes across all seven campuses and helped participants consider the implications for their own institutions.

Terrel Rhodes, AAC&U vice president for quality, curriculum, and assessment, gave a presentation titled, “Creating a Culture of Assessment for Student Successes” on best practices in assessment at the Live Text Louisiana Assessment Conference on February 5 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Frederick Winter, AAC&U senior director for advancement and leadership development, will speak on March 4 on grant-seeking for the humanities and grant-writing strategies at New York University’s Faculty Resource Network, an award-winning professional development initiative that sponsors programs for faculty members from a consortium of more than fifty colleges and universities.