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 from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, on May 8. Schneider also will receive an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on May 15. While in Oshkosh, she will speak to the faculty about the future of the LEAP initiative, and will lead a conversation with local business and education leaders and partners about the economic value of liberal education.

Susan Albertine, AAC&U senior director of the LEAP States Initiative, joined a WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) team for an accreditation campus visit to University of the Pacific March 29-April 1. Albertine traveled to Virginia Tech on April 9 to lead a workshop titled “Re-visioning General Education for the 21st Century.”She participated as a facilitator at the Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)/Keck Spring Leadership Roundtable in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 11.

Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, will attend the 2020 Imperative: College Attainment and Workforce Development event hosted by the DeVry Policy Forum on May 11 in Washington, DC. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give the keynote address for this event.

Susan Elrod, director of Project Kaleidoscope, visited James Madison University April 1-2 to present a seminar on ”Dimensions of Institutional STEM Engagement.” She also participated in a PKAL Network Meeting, “Exploring Pathways from Classroom Pedagogy to Undergraduate Research,” in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 16. On April 21-22, she led a seminar titled, “Exploring the Roots of STEM Education” at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, will give a presentation titled, “Global Learning and Essential Learning Outcomes,” at the University of Central Florida 2010 Summer Faculty Development Conference on May 6.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president, led a workshop with AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change Kevin Hovland on assessing global learning at the University System of Georgia Faculty Development Monthly Series in Athens, Georgia, on April 23. Musil also gave a presentation at the University of Minnesota during a university-wide forum titled, “The Future of the Research University: The Role of Public Engagement.” She will also participate in a panel discussion, “Beyond Cultural Relativism, Its Uses and Limits for International Educators,” at the NAFSA National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 1.  

Terrel Rhodes, AAC&U vice president for quality, curriculum, and assessment, participated in a Project Kaleidoscope-Keck Foundation roundtable discussion in Baltimore, Maryland,  on April 9-11. He also gave a plenary address and led workshops on liberal learning at Northern Illinois University on April 16. On April 21-23, Rhodes presented a session titled, “The VALUE Rubrics – Touchstones for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” at the WASC Academic Resource Conference in Long Beach, California.