A tour organized for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign will make a stop at the University of Wisconsin campus March 7, according to two senior organizers with the campaign Monday.

The Obama campaign’s senior strategist, David Axelrod, and National Youth Vote Director Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, announced the Greater Together Student Summit Tour – which will visit 12 schools in 11 states between February and March this year – in a press conference with campus reporters.

Adopted by the president’s campaign under part of the “Greater Together” slogan, the tour will bring together senior campaign officials, community leaders, student representatives and celebrities to discuss key policy issues. The time and location of the visit in Madison is still to be determined.

Butterfield-Jones said many of Obama’s goals will directly affect young Americans and students of higher education.

The president’s platform has focused on job creation for students after graduation; school loan and debt reforms for those who become teachers, nurses or serve in the military; and attempts to lower the overall cost of attending college, she added.

Butterfield-Jones also cited the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, increased health care coverage for full-time students and the Lilly Ledbetter Act, a law that helps women fight for equal pay as victories for American freedoms.

Axelrod said he was proud that young people were driving the president’s campaign, adding young voters were responsible for Obama’s success in the past and will dictate it in the future election.

“I know that it is only with the energy of young people will [Obama] win this campaign and will continue to make tangible progress and drive toward the kind of country and world to which so many young people aspire,” Axelrod said.

Axelrod added the efforts of the president improve the United States’ higher education system by making student loans more manageable, expanding community colleges and making higher education more affordable in general.

And while the youth vote is largely generalized to be aligned with the Democratic Party, Jeff Snow, chairman of UW’s chapter of College Republicans, said conservatives may have more sway than usual in the upcoming general election.

Snow said enthusiasm and support for Obama have decreased each of the past three years of his term, as people may be realizing “all of the hope and change they had voted for isn’t all that great.”

UW political science professor Donald Downs believes Obama’s reelection is far from sealed.

“Obama has some ground to pick up with his own coalition,” Downs said.

Downs said young people should be concerned with the current economic debt the nation has accumulated. He added the Democratic Party has done little to reduce the debt and Republicans will not work out a deal, leaving citizens with few options.

However, the GOP is in a different stage in the campaign because it is still unclear who the presidential nominee will be.

Because of this, Snow said there may not be a huge push for the student demographic.

“The youth vote necessarily doesn’t have as big of a driving force in a Republican primary,” Snow said.