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 travel to Durham, North Carolina, to take part in the Teagle Foundation Conference on Systemic Improvement of Student Learning on October 9-11. Schneider will participate in the concluding discussion, “To the Tipping Point" with American Council on Education President Molly Broad and National Center for Higher Education Management Systems Vice President Peter Ewell. They will discuss what is being done and what still needs to be done to achieve the education American students deserve.

Caryn McTighe Musil, AAC&U senior vice president for diversity, equity, and global initiatives, gave a presentation on “A Measure of Equity” (a forthcoming AAC&U publication on women’s status in higher education) with Kathryn Campbell, editor of Diversity and Democracy, at the Women Administrators in Higher Education meeting on September 19 in Washington, D.C. Musil also attended the Council of Europe meeting, “Converging Competencies: Diversity, Higher Education and Sustainable Democracy,” as a key planner and a representative of AAC&U on October 2-3 in Strasbourg, France. She will deliver the keynote address, “Democracy and Social Responsibility: An Educational Agenda for a Global Century” at the New Hampshire Campus Compact 15th Annual Academic Affairs Conference on October 21 in Henniker, New Hampshire.

Frederick Winter, AAC&U senior director for advancement and leadership development, will deliver the closing plenary address at the annual meeting of the Community College Association Southern Division on November 1 at the Sheraton Read House Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The topic of the speech will be the essential classics and liberal education in the twenty-first century.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, attended a module-writing workshop of the Association of American Geographers’ Center for Global Geography Education, September 2-4, at Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, England. Hovland is serving as an outside evaluator for the National Science Foundation-funded project. He will also give a presentation, “Recent Initiatives in International Education,”at the Council of Academic Advisors meeting at the Aix Center, Institute for American University on October 16-18 in Aix-en-Provence, France.