A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy’s Future
This report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement calls on the nation to reclaim higher education’s civic mission.
This report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement calls on the nation to reclaim higher education’s civic mission.
A brief perspective from HBCU students on their interactions regarding civic engagement with Elections Officials, Politicians, Third-party organizations, and Campus Administrators.
IDHE’s flagship project (“N-Solve”) is the first and only study to objectively examine student and institution-level data on student voting, and to share these data with participating campuses.
An IDHE report series, centered on research-backed recommendations for promoting and sustaining political learning on campus.
These reports summarize national college student participation in each national U.S. election (2016, 2018, 2020).
Interactive data tools and visualizations derived from IDHE’s NSLVE dataset and more.
Seven states currently discriminate on the basis of age in their vote-at-home (also known as absentee ballot) systems, and this report explains why these laws are unconstitutional under the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which prohibits age discrimination in voting.
This research design provides evidence whether the adoption of a single election administration reform—permitting
early in-person voting to occur on public college and university campuses in Florida for the 2018 general elections—had a positive effect on turnout, especially among young voters, who do not normally vote in midterm elections.
Companion resource to textbooks on teaching civic engagement published by the American Political Science Association.
SLSV has truly been a catalyst and a community that my students, peers and I have leaned on. Through the coalition, I learned to harness collective power and bring it back to campus, partnering with students and colleagues on campus , as well as organizations like Baltimore Votes and Black Girls Vote, to do things like a party at the polls ahead of the midterms; working closely with Andrew Goodman Foundation ambassadors; supporting the on-campus polling location; getting involved in the census planning workgroup; and diving deeper into action planing and and coalition building to help bring the TU Votes initiative to next levels. What I hope endures is how young people continue to come together to turn their values into action, going beyond words, within and beyond their ballots, adapting and pivoting, and proving their voices are powerful beyond measure. Those years ignited the passion I continue to carry to this day. They truly made me realize that we have something meaningful here, beyond just one election. To the next generations: never forget that these connections are our superpower. Even in challenging times, continue to foster spaces of joy, collaboration and true community, because I wholeheartedly believe that those things will continue to uplift us in the years to come.
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