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 participate in the Bringing Theory to Practice Presidents’ Symposium, Campus Change for Learning, on November 10-11, in Washington, DC, where she will moderate a panel discussion on what prohibits or mitigates organizing and advancing a culture for learning. On November 13, Schneider will deliver the opening plenary at the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, titled, “Liberal Education and Students’ Success.” On November 20-21, she will present a plenary address at the University of Wisconsin System conference, Liberal Education: A Unifying Mission for the 21st Century University.

Susan Albertine, AAC&U senior director of LEAP State initiatives, traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana, to deliver a keynote address titled “New Directions for Experiential Learning” at the William M. Plater Institute on the Future of Learning, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), on October 10. Faculty and staff from across the campus participated in a daylong discussion of engaged and experiential learning. Indianapolis Mayor Gregory A. Ballard also spoke on the value of experiential learning from the perspective of a city leader. On November 21, Albertine will lead a Campus Conversation on General Education at California State University-Los Angeles.

Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, AAC&U vice president for education and institutional renewal, will be an opening plenary panelist at the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium conference—Making Excellence Inclusive: Promoting Diversity in Higher Education—on November 7 in New York City. The City University of New York is a sponsor of this discussion about diversity and institutional transformation. On November 8, Clayton-Pedersen will give opening remarks about the Pathways to College Network for the featured presentation at the Social Science Research Council conference, Learning in Higher Education, in Chicago, Illinois. On November 11, Clayton-Pedersen will give a keynote address and facilitate a concurrent session on inclusive excellence at the Council for Accelerated Programs conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Debra Humphreys, AAC&U vice president for communications and public affairs, will deliver a keynote address on “College Learning for the New Global Century: Teaching and Assessing what Really Matters Today” at the statewide conference, What is an Educated Person?, held November 6-8 in Snowbird, Utah. She will also participate in an international seminar on occupational education sponsored by the Hegeler Institute and held at the Hegeler Carus Mansion in La Salle, Illinois, November 13-16.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president for diversity, equity, and global initiatives, will represent the AAC&U Core Commitments initiative in a symposium, “Higher Education Working Together to Advance Students’ Personal and Social Responsibility,” at the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 2008 Annual Conference on November 7 in Jacksonville, Florida. The symposium will address questions of institutional change through the framework of Core Commitments, including the implications of data that have emerged from the Personal and Social Responsibility Institutional Inventory.