Women and the New American Dream: Opportunity Nation at Otterbein University

The role of higher education in ensuring future opportunities for women.

Otterbein has been selected by Opportunity Nation as one of 12 colleges and universities in 2012 to engage colleagues in regional dialogues about the role of higher education in generating opportunity and restoring the American Dream.  At our Midwestern summit, the focus will turn to conversations about promoting opportunities for women.  We will create an open collaborative space in which participants will share, imagine, and build innovative new pathways for women's social, political, and economic mobility as we envision a strategic regional action plan to prepare women to succeed in the 21st century.  The United Nation's Platform for Action for women (1995) stated that to empower women we must continually be "removing all the obstacles to women's active participation in all spheres of public and private life."  The summit will bring together teams of scholars, local women, students, community leaders, and area youth passionate about deepening their understanding of modern obstacles facing women and girls in order to build our capacity to cultivate new opportunities for women to flourish.

Summit highlights:

• Women's Leadership Workshop
• Poverty Simulation
• World-cafe' Dialogues to Cultivate Action Plans
• Hunger Banquet
• Pecha Kucha, Ted-Talks, and an IDEA-Exhibit
• Women's Entrepreneurial Worshop Series
• Keyholder Lectures
• Networking Gallery

Venue:  Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio

Contact or Visit:  614-823-1371; opportunitynation@otterbein.edu; www.otterbein.edu/opportunitynation

Cost is $25 per Student; $75 per non-student