Professional+Development+Summer+2012

=__**Professional Development Opportunities for Summer 2012**__=

__**Summer Institute on Elections and Voting, July 9-13**__
sponsored by the Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library with MA Geography and National Archives

EXPLORE: Our Nation’s Voting Past DISCOVER: How our system of Representation has evolved INVESTIGATE: The path and process of re-districting PLAN: to Teach the 2012 Election

Guest Speakers/Lectures Include: Governor Michael Dukakis on the Electoral College and Planning a Presidential Campaigns Michael Moran, Chair MA Commission on Redistricting Harvard Law School Professor Jed Shugarman on the role of the Judiciary in Elections Expansion of the Franchise Impact of the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Please see attached flyer for all of the pertinent details.