ADVISORY/ETS to Conduct Voter Registration Drive and Host Former President of the League of Women Voters as Part of Their ETS Issues Forum: Civic Life in America.Assignment/News Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Sept. 24) PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2002 The Educational Testing Service The Educational Testing Service (or ETS) is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization, operating on an annual budget of approximately $1.1 billion on a proforma basis in 2007. (ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization) ETS Emergency Telecommunications Service ETS Electronic Trading System ETS Engineering (&) Technical Services ) will conduct a voter registration drive A voter registration drive is an effort, often undertaken by a political campaign, political party, or other outside groups (partisan and non-partisan), that seeks to register to vote those who are eligible but not registered. in conjunction with a seminar given by the former national president of the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. Carolyn Jefferson Jenkins on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at the ETS campus in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756. . Joining ETS on campus to conduct the voter registration drive will be representatives of the League of Women Voters of Hopewell Valley. The efforts are part of ETS's ongoing employee seminar series called the ETS Issues Forum. The ETS Issues Forum features experts on issues, topics and controversies that affect ETS employees' lives on and off the job. The goal is to help employees better understand and analyze public issues and events. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins is the past president of the League of Women Voters and the first African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. to head the organization. She directed the League's 1996 "Get Out the Vote" campaign that registered more than 50,000 people. A professional educator, she served as a principal in the Cleveland and Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public School systems and is a recognized authority on African-American voting rights Voting rights The right to vote on matters that are put to a vote of security holders. For example the right to vote for directors. voting rights The type of voting and the amount of control held by the owners of a class of stock. and the author of two books on the subject.
WHAT: Voter Registration Drive & ETS Issues Forum: Democracy 2002:
"The Importance of Elections and Voter Participation in This
Era of Renewed Patriotism"
WHO: Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, past president, League of Women
Voters
League of Women Voters of Hopewell Valley
WHEN: Tuesday, September 24, 2002
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Voter Registration Drive
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: ETS Issues Forum
WHERE: Educational Testing Service
Rosedale Road - Conant Hall
Princeton, New Jersey
ABOUT ETS: With estimated consolidated revenues of $700 million for FY2002, Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization and a leader in education research. The company is dedicated to serving the needs of individuals, educational institutions, and government bodies in nearly 200 countries. ETS develops and administers more than 12 million tests worldwide. For more information, access the ETS Web site at www.ets.org. |
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