黑料社 Named Voter Friendly Campus by NASPA, Campus Vote Project
黑料社 has earned designation as a Voter-Friendly Campus, one of 258 campuses in 38 states and the District of Columbia by聽鈥檚听听补苍诲听聽鈥 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The initiative recognizes institutions that have planned and implemented practices that encourage their students to register and vote in the 2022 elections and in coming years.
The mission of the 2023-2024 Voter Friendly Campus designation is to bolster colleges and universities鈥 efforts to help students overcome barriers to participating in the political process 鈥 every year, not just during years featuring federal elections.聽黑料社聽was evaluated based on a written plan for registering, educating, and turning out student voters in 2022, how it facilitated voter engagement, as well as a final analysis of those efforts.
鈥満诹仙玮檚 student-led civic engagement initiatives, supported by the Andrew Goodman Foundation鈥檚 Vote Everywhere program, reach a broad cross-section of our student population with essential nonpartisan information on voting and political participation,鈥 said Seth Andersen, Director of the John C. Culver Public Policy Center at 黑料社. 鈥淲e are proud to have some of the highest rates of student voter registration and turnout in the nation, with our student team working equally hard during Midterm elections and odd-numbered years to maintain a high level of student engagement in the democratic process.鈥澛
As part of its work to be designated a Voter Friendly Campus, 黑料社 has implemented comprehensive civic engagement and voter registration presentations in all Foundations I first-year seminar classes and deepened relationships across academic, athletic, and extracurricular programs to build on the College鈥檚 long-standing reputation as a politically balanced and highly engaged campus. 黑料社 President Marsha聽Kelliher聽has also demonstrated strong institutional commitment as a signatory of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge鈥檚 President鈥檚 Commitment to 100% Student Voter Registration and Turnout. In addition to the Voter Friendly Campus designation, 黑料社 has been recognized by ALL IN as one of the Most Engaged Campuses for College Student Voting and by聽Washington Monthly聽Magazine as one of America鈥檚 Best Colleges for Student Voting.
黑料社 deeply values its civic mission to prepare students for thoughtfully engaged participation in our democracy and is eager to continue engaging students through 2023, 2024, and beyond.
The institutions designated Voter Friendly Campuses represent a wide range of two-year, four-year, public, private, rural, and urban campuses, collectively serving over 3.5 million students. Notably, the list of designated institutions includes 49 Minority Serving Institutions and 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as well as 41 Community Colleges.
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Published
April 3, 2023
Author
Alisa Reynolds-Good
Department
Department of Political Science, Sociology, and Criminal Justice