Applications are now open for the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society’s 2015 NEW Leadership™ New York! Summer Institute

The Summer Institute is an exciting undergraduate leader development program at the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society. NEW Leadership™ New York (NLNY), is part of the National Education for Women’s (NEW) Leadership Network.

The goals of NLNY are to strengthen policy knowledge and skills of undergraduate women, and invite them to become advocates for positive social change. This intensive week-long summer Institute encourages leadership through action, and urges participants upon graduation from the program to develop and lead a campus/community project by offering competitive mini grant awards. The Institute will be held from Wednesday, May 27th through Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 at the University at Albany campus.

NLNY is open to undergraduate women enrolled at New York State colleges and universities, and to New York State residents enrolled in colleges and universities outside of New York.

Applications are available online. All applications must be received by March 1, 2015.