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Women in Higher Education

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Campuses have a tendency to be insular. But reaching out to your local and state government leaders can have reciprocal benefits.

It's a great way to advance your issues and the causes that your school believes in. The trick is getting started. You're academics and they're politicians. The inner workings of the political world can be as foreign to your school as your world of academia is to politicians. How do you bridge the gap?

At a workshop at the 2008 Office of Women in Higher Education (part of the American Council on Education) meeting in San Diego in February, three women shared how they and their networks work with politicians to advocate for ...

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