TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama will host some 250 high school student leaders from around the state as they seek answers to some of Alabama’s most pressing problems at the Alabama Youth Summit on Friday, Feb. 2.
The students, all of whom have been involved in Boys State, Girls State or Alabama Youth in Government, will break into committees to discuss issues including constitutional reform, education, environment, the justice system, human relations, and tax and election reform. The students then will suggest solutions to these problem areas and present their solutions to a member of Gov. Don Siegelman’s staff.
The daylong program will begin at 8:30 a.m. with registration and a breakfast sponsored by the UA Student Government Association in the Ferguson Center theater. Dr. Nancy Barrett, UA provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Emily McMurphy, SGA president, will provide welcome notes for the summit. Students will break into committee meetings from 10-11:30 a.m. Lunch will be held in the Ferguson Center food court. Following lunch, students will hear a keynote addresses from Pettus Randall, 1999-2000 Boys State governor, and from Dr. Sybil Todd, UA vice president for student affairs. At 1 p.m., the students will conduct a debate and voting session in Alston Hall.
Presiding over the summit will be Christy Gannt, governor of Alabama Girls State; Kimmie Lipscomb, governor of Alabama Youth in Government; and Adam Teeter, governor of Alabama Boys State.
Gannt, Lipscomb and Teeter will present the students’ assessment of the most pressing issues facing the state at 3 p.m. in 30 Alston Hall.
Contact
Amelia Parker or Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325
Source
April McKenzie, UA Office of Student Affairs, 205/348-6670