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University of Richmond Student Selected for National Leadership Development Institute

June 29, 2006

Ashley Vickers, a rising senior at the University of Richmond, is one of 50 students from around the nation selected to participate in the Collegiate Women of Color Leadership Development Institute Aug. 10–13 in Baltimore, Md.

Vickers, of Martinsville, Va., was one of six Virginia students chosen for the program. The institute is sponsored by the Foundation for Independent Higher Education through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

The institute will provide information on leadership theories and strategies for serving as a minority and woman leader. Women leaders will serve as keynote speakers and workshop leaders. Participants also will complete a six-month mentoring program and perform a practicum at a community, corporate or campus agency.

The foundation funded the project to prepare young, collegiate women of color as future leaders in order to increase gender and ethnic diversity in the workplace.