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, gave a plenary session with George Mehaffey, vice president of academic leadership and change at AASCU, at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) Annual Meeting on July 17. The session, titled “Advancing Student Learning: What Must Be Done?”, focused on AAC&U’s work on assessing student learning through Greater Expectations and the VALUE project along with AASCU’s work on its Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA). On August 19-20, Schneider will work with the Earlham College faculty at a summer retreat to help them assess their learning goals as they continue in their process of evaluating Earlham's general education program.

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U director of global learning and curricular change, served as a faculty member for the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communications July 21-23 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Hovland led a three-day workshop called “Global Citizenship and Global Learning.”