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 traveled to Queenstown, MD, on July 23 to attend a meeting of the Wye Faculty Seminar Governing Board. The Wye Faculty Seminar, co-sponsored by the Aspen Institute and AAC&U, explores the role of higher education in shaping and applying the founding principles and values of our society in the college classroom. Round table discussions focus on issues of substance and procedure in liberal education at the undergraduate level.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president of the office of diversity, equity and global initiatives, facilitated the closing panel discussion, “The Difference Difference Makes: Building and Sustaining Racial and Generational Diversity in Research Networks and Women’s Studies,” during the National Council for Research on Women conference in Atlanta, May 31-June 2. Musil was also an invited participant for a “Democracy Imperative” meeting sponsored by the Democracy Project held at the University of New Hampshire, June 3-6. She then served as a reviewer for the “U.S. Professors of the Year” awards on June 18 in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Terry Rhodes, AAC&U vice president for quality, curriculum, and assessment, delivered the keynote address, The Courage to Profess: Integration and Learning in a Non-Flat World” on June 12 at the Appalachian College Association Teaching and Learning Institute at Brevard College. He also participated in a panel on June 22 at the “Quantitative Literacy and its Implications for Teacher Education” conference held at the Wingspread Conference Center and co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Johnson Foundation, and the Mathematical Association of America’s Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teacher Project. In July, Rhodes also consulted with faculty at Southern Connecticut State University on their general education reform efforts and met with the National Coalition on E-Portfolio Research at George Mason University. In August, Rhodes is participating on a panel on “The Successful ePortfolio Initiative” at the annual meeting of Campus Technology in Washington, DC, and participating in a faculty retreat at Albright College, consulting on that campus’ general education and assessment reform effort.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director for global learning and curricular change, attended from May 16-18 a “Global Summit” at Concordia College’s Language Villages.  Hovland will return to Concordia’s Moorhead, MN, campus on August 23rd to speak at their fall workshop on the theme of their new core curriculum, “Becoming responsibly engaged in the world.”