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.

On April 3, AAC&U President Carol Schneider will provide the keynote address for a Campus-Community Dialogue at the University of Michigan. On April 6, she will attend the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) annual meeting and present on a panel with Ronald Williams, president of Prince George's Community College. Later that week, she will travel to Staten Island to serve as a panelist at the inaugural symposium for Richard Guarasci, new president of Wagner College (April 11-12).

On April 2nd, Vice President for Education and Quality Initiatives Andrea Leskes will speak at the installation of Dr. Kathleen Owens, fifth president of Gwynedd-Mercy College in Gynedd Valley, PA. She will present on Greater Expectations at an Academic Symposium preceding the inauguration. On April 10th she will speak to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges about Greater Expectations and accreditation.

At the end of February, Vice President for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Global Initiatives Caryn McTighe Musil spent three days in Dickinson, North Dakota, at statewide diversity conference hosted by Dickinson State University. All eleven four-year colleges in North Dakota were represented along with some tribal community colleges. She spoke on gender issues, focusing on the attempts to undermine Title IX. (for more information, see Director's Outlook in the new issue of On Campus with Women.)

Dr. Musil also participated in the National Task Force on Tolerance and Diversity at Morehouse College in the same month. The task force is designed to help the president who is committed to addressing the issue of sexual identity more explicitly as part of the overall academic and civic mission of Morehouse. The National Task Force also includes Peter Gomes, Paul Burgett, Robert Franklin, Phillip Rush, R. Roosevelt Thomas, and Deborah Prothrow-Stith.