National
Education for Women's Leadership
is the centerpiece of CAWP's initiative to educate and empower
the next generation of women leaders.
NEW
Leadership was named an "Exemplary Leadership Project"
by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Since the inception of NEW Leadership,
CAWP has developed and refined a set of resources and programs
designed to encourage college women to take on public leadership
roles.
The
NEW Leadership summer institute began in 1991 as national program.
The institute consists of a week long residential program during
which college students learn about women's leadership and women's
political participation from scholars and practitioners. NEW
Leadership participants are invited back to CAWP to attend special
programs, speakers and workshops throughout the year. Since
1995 the annual summer institute at CAWP has focused on NEW
Jersey, bringing students and practitioners from across the
state to discuss national and local policy issues.
Additional
summer institutes were conducted as regional programs in 1997
and 1998 as NEW Leadership South and NEW Leadership Midwest.
Beginning in 1998, with a three year grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, CAWP has been developing partnerships with colleges
and universities across the country to create the NEW
Leadership Development Network, an initiative to bring
NEW Leadership to college women in every region of the country.
Currently, we have partnerships with eleven schools to develop
NEW Leadership programs across the country. In the summer of
2004 NEW Leadership summer institutes will be hosted in Alabama,
Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Washington and Washington D.C. CAWP is continuing
to work with centers and institutions interested in bringing
NEW Leadership to their state.
Click
here for more on the Development Network
Center for American Women and Politics
Eagleton Institute of Politics
191 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8557
phone: (732) 932-9384
fax: (732) 932-6778
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