Our curriculum is theoretically and historically rich as well as practically relevant. Students obtain a comprehensive set of timely skills and working knowledge that fosters the development of core competencies immediately applicable within their profession.

Core Competences include:

• The ability to deconstruct and diagram the core functions of the electoral process into their constituent sub-systems and thereby benchmark, improve and compare procedures across jurisdictions.
• The ability to understand and apply management concepts that are specific to election administration in order to produce better outcomes for material and human resource utilization.
• The ability to strategically manage and apply budgeting techniques that result in quality improvement for elections and voter registration.
• The ability to properly evaluate and effectively manage the application of a variety of technologies to the processes and procedures in election administration and voter registration.
• The ability to identify the well reasoned foundational precepts which form the ethical basis governing their duties and obligation as Election Officials.
• The ability to measure voter participation and introduce methods to motivate and encourage greater voter registration and turnout.
• The ability to effectively communicate with the media, state legislatures, and local boards to maintain the critically needed budget and public support for the electoral process, voter outreach and other public relation purposes.
• The ability to understand how past legislative and historical developments have led to the current way we administer elections today as well as an increased capacity to better anticipate and appreciate how future changes are likely to impact future developments to the process.

Our Conferences, Seminars and Special Workshops hosted around the country provide convenient locations for various schedules.

• The conference classroom environment provides the advantages of traditional learning with face to face interactions and active participation between faculty and students.
• The conference classroom environment promotes reciprocal interaction and communication with the professors during the lectures which is essential to an in-depth understanding of theoretical, historical and administrative material.
• In addition to enhancing the student’s knowledge and retention of vital information, active communication between faculty and students can help improve student’s interpersonal skills, boost their confidence and make them better communicators.
• The break out sessions with focused group activities help to reinforce lecture content and provide hands on learning with your election colleagues from around the country.
• In addition to the core curriculum, our Special Workshops provide students with keynote presentations and panel discussions from various experts. Our students learn from the very best in their field and stay current on the leading trends and topics impacting elections.
• The conference classroom environment provides the perfect venue for personal networking and professional relationship development with academic researchers, election administrators, voter registrars and voting technology vendors from around the country.