LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Four Rider University students have been selected to represent the University at an innovative education program organized by the Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. The six-day conference will be held in June on Rutgers' New Brunswick campus.

The students are (with hometown, class year, and major):

Rider's four representatives will join other students who are potential female civic leaders in exploring women's political involvement, developing leadership skills, visiting the New Jersey state house, and meeting successful women in politics.

One major goal for each student will be to develop a public leadership project, seek funding through grants, and implement it furing the upcoming year. Assistance with grant writing will be given by CAWP staff during a fall weekend retreat.

Among the leaders students will have to opportunity to meet are: Susan Bass Levin, mayor of Cherry Hill, NJ; Velvet Miller, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Human Services; Nancy Roth, communication specialist with Hoffmann-La Roche; Lonna Hooks, New Jersey secretary of state; and Hazel Gluck, president of the GluckShaw Group.

Rider's conference delegation is being sponsored by CAWP and the University's chapter of Orienting Women Leaders (OWL).

Rider University is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian institution with a 353-acre main campus in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and a 23-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The University offers 58 undergraduate programs and 17 graduate programs in the Colleges of Business Administration; Liberal Arts, Education, and Sciences; Continuing Studies; and Westminster Choir College. Ninety-three percent of the faculty hold doctoral or other appropriate advanced degrees. U.S. News and World Report has again ranked Rider in the top tier of northern universities based on the quality of its programs.