U.S. Institute on Women's Leadership

This project will bring leading undergraduates from Africa and South Asia to the University of Kansas in June 2011 to participate in the U.S. Institute on Women's Leadership. Participants will learn key stewardship skills and tools, gain an understanding of themselves as leaders and public servants, and engage foundational theories of gender and leadership. This Institute will also ensure participants are able to see where women made history through educational travel to Philadelphia, PA, and will conclude with students learning and seeing women’s history in the making in Washington, DC.

The Institute will be hosted through a partnership of programs at the University of Kansas, including the Leadership Studies Program, the Center for Service Learning, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the University Honors Program, the Kansas African Studies Center, the Center for Global and International Studies, the Emily Taylor Women’s Resource Center, the Office of International Programs, and the Applied English Center. Additional heartland partners include the Kansas Leadership Center and Capitol Federal Savings and Loan. National partners will include the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA, and an extensive network of KU alumni in Washington, DC.

This project has three phases: (1) Academic Residency, (2) Educational Travel to Philadelphia, PA, in collaboration with the National Constitution Center, and to Washington, DC, and (3) Follow-On Alumni Activities. Program evaluation will occur at all three phases of the program.

This project is funded by the U.S. Department of State ECA Bureau.

Program Personnel

Banwart, Ph.D., Mary
Title: Principal Investigator
785-864-5681
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