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WTS Advancing Women in Transportation Student Chapter Creation
Tiffany Jackson, WTS Chapter development director, addresses a crowd of students during the student chapters’ session at the conference. Kathy Salamati speaks to Tiffany Jackson about creating a WTS student Chapter at NCSU.
WTS Advancing Women in Transportation Student Chapter Creation in the Southeast
The WTS UF student chapter has made contact with a couple of universities in the Southeastern U.S. with the intention of initiating other WTS student chapters. Students from FIU and NCSU have shown interest. The WTS student chapter at UF has also connected with USF and GaTech. At NCSU, preliminary discussions were held about forming a WTS student chapter, which led to interest from other universities in establishing chapters outside of the STRIDE consortium. The strategy at NCSU is to work to create a Triangle WTS student chapter, comprising students from NCSU, UNC at Chapel Hill and Duke University (a university outside of the STRIDE consortium). During the UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region in April 2013, the ITE and WTS student chapters at UF organized a special session to discuss opportunities for regional events and activities, including the creation of additional WTS student chapters in the region. Tiffany Jackson, WTS director of chapter development, spoke during the session and met with several students interested in forming WTS student chapters at their respective universities.
