Release date: May 12, 2003

Contact: Frances Weyand, Director of Media Relations, 770-423-6203 or fweyand@kennesaw.edu

KSU hosts program in political leadership for high school girls

The RTM Center for Leadership, Ethics & Character and the Burruss Institute for Public Service, both housed at Kennesaw State University, will host Project: Govern, a program in political leadership for rising high school junior and senior girls. The program runs June 9-13 and will introduce young women to the political process and encourage scholarship on issues of public policy and state politics. Secretary of State Cathy Cox will serve as keynote speaker.

For more information call 770-499-3340.

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Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population of 15,600 from 123 countries. The fourth largest state university out of 34 institutions in the University System of Georgia, KSU offers 55 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.