The University of Alabama is one of twenty colleges and universities from across the nation that will host Elect Her-Campus Women Win in 2011, a unique campus based program that teaches women how to run for campus based elected offices.
Currently, women hold just 17% of the seats in Congress and 24% of the seats in state legislatures. Elect Her-Campus Women Win is training a whole new generation of college women for running for office later in life. Since 2007, the American Association of University Women and Running Start have collaborated to encourage young college women to run for student government. From the nine campus sites that hosted this program in 2010, evaluations show almost double the number of students planning to run for student government and planning to run for political office post-college.
The Elect Her- Campus Women Win training is scheduled for Saturday, February 12th from 10am-3:30pm at the Ferguson Center. For questoins, please contact Alex Sims at either acsims5@crimson.ua.edu or (334) 707 6794.
[Above Information provided by Alex Sims]
The SOURCE is designed to provide resources, recognition, and support for both students and registered student organizations on the campus of the University of Alabama. We currently coordinate over 500 registered student organizations at the Capstone!
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