Project Vote Smart Internship opportunities are opening at Project Vote Smart during the 2000 presidential election year. During the last presidential election, interns answered hundreds of thousands of questions over our Voter's Research Hotline, and stood over a million hits a day on their Vote Smart website. For the 2000 election, they are expecting even more. Interns gather information, enter it into their database, and make it available to the public. Their focus for interns is to provide them with the best practical, hands-on experience possible.
Students can gain experience in the art of fundraising in their membership department.
They can improve their research skills with the National Political Awareness Test and the Vote Smart Web, and refine their communication skills with the press department, Voter's Research Hotline, and their new national media and library partnership project. Information is available in the Political Science office, Munroe 213. The Carl Albert Center is offering a five year Ph.D. program that focuses on American politics with an emphasis in congressional studies. It consists of three years of course work, a year in Washington, D.C., as part of the APSA's Congressional Fellowship Program while engaged in dissertation research, and a fifth year back on campus to complete the dissertation. Information is available in the Political Science office, Munroe 213.