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.

AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider gave the keynote address for the inauguration of Leo I. Higdon as president of Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, on October 14. On October 20, she delivered a plenary address, “Putting Students in the Loop: Twenty-First-Century Strategies for General—and Liberal!—Education,” for the Association of General and Liberal Studies National Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Alma Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, participated in a meeting of the College Board’s Access and Diversity Collaborative in New York City October 11–12. The group sought to identify key issues and assemble concrete examples that institutions can use as they develop diversity policies and practices. On October 13, Clayton-Pedersen facilitated conversations among faculty, administrators, and staff at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut, and on October 17, she led a similar session at San Jose State University in California. She also traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, for the October 27–29 meeting of the Pathways to College Network Executive Committee, which she now chairs.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, will present at a seminar for journalists sponsored by the Hechinger Institute for Education and the Media on November 18 in Phoenix, Arizona. She will participate in the opening panel discussion, “The Higher Ed Commission Weighs In: Will Findings Change the Status Quo, and What Should the Stories Be?” along with Spellings Commission members David Ward and Richard Vedder, Vicky Schray from the Department of Education, and Douglas Lederman from Inside Higher Education.

Kevin Hovland, director of programs in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, participated in a session on “Liberal Education and LEAP” at the Consensus Conference on Undergraduate Public Health Education at the Boston University School of Public Health November 7–8. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, and the Association of Schools of Public Health.

Ross Miller, director of programs in the Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment, spoke at the National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success on November 2. The topic for the session was “success in the liberal arts and liberal education.” Also presenting at the session was Charles Blaich of the Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College.