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How can your campus support student voting and democratic engagement?

Published August 21, 2017

Check out these upcoming webinars and events for campuses looking to support student democratic engagement:

Events!

Constitution Day
September 17

Officially “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day,” Constitution Day is a federal holiday that commemorates the signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787. A 2005 law requires each educational institution that receives federal funds to hold a educational program on the U.S. Constitution for students on September 17th! Because the 17th falls on a Sunday this year, schools may hold the program on the preceding Friday or Monday. Learn more.

National Voter Registration Day
September 26

A national holiday celebrating our democracy, first observed in 2012. Held on the fourth Tuesday of September. Endorsed by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS). It is further supported by the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED). Get free stuff for your event when you sign-up as a partner.

NC College Voter Summit
September 29 at Elon University
Register by September 18!

A one-day event for student leaders and campus administrators leading non-partisan student voter and civic engagement efforts at NC colleges and universities. Featured speaker is Dr. Nancy Thomas of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education. Breakout sessions led by the NC Board of Elections, Campus Vote Project, and more. Free but space is limited. Learn more.

National Conference on Citizenship
October 19-20 in Washington, D.C.
Register before Sept. 1 for early bird rates.

With the goal of strengthening civic life in America, this working convening will focus on civic life, civic health, and civic renewal through the lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion. A limited number of scholarships for students are available!

Engaged Campus Institute
November 3-4 in Washington, D.C.
Apply by September 15!

AASCU’s American Democracy Project (ADP) and the NASPA Lead Initiative organized this two-day institute to give teams from colleges and universities interested in strategic planning of their civic learning and democratic engagement efforts the opportunity to come together.

Webinars!

Understanding and Using your NSLVE Data
Wednesday, August 23 |  2:00 PM EST  |  60 minutes

The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) is the first and only nonpartisan study of individual and institution-level data on college student voting. More than 1,000 campuses are participating and will receive their data this summer from the 2016 presidential election. Reports will also include comparison data from the 2012 presidential election.

Hold a Successful Voter Registration Event
Thursday, August 24 | 2:00 PM EST

How to hold a successful voter registration drive on National Voter Registration Day 2017. We’ll be joined by staff from NYC Votes (that’s the New York City Campaign Finance Board’s voter outreach program). From Nonprofit Votes.

Developing a Democratic Engagement Action Plan
Monday, September 11 |  2:00 PM EST  |  60 minutes

Part of the All In Challenge Webinar Series. In order to increase democratic engagement on on college and university campuses, planning needs to be intentional and activities should be documented. One promising way in which this can be accomplished is through the process of action planning.

CEEP Webinar Series: Creating a Campus Climate to Support Political Learning
Register now via this interest form.
Series of monthly webinars begins September 12.

Campuses will compile teams and participate in monthly webinars and group feedback sessions to assess their institution’s campus climate regarding its friendliness toward political learning and engagement activities. Teams will conduct an abbreviated self-assessment about what on-campus factors matter most that support engagement. Each month, campus teams will have activities that move them toward creating a plan they can begin implementing the Spring of 2018 and into the 2018-2019 school year. Free to participate.

Other Resources and Kudos!

Scholars Strategy Network

The Scholars Strategy Network seeks to improve public policy and strengthen democracy by organizing scholars working in America’s colleges and universities, and connecting scholars and their research to policymakers, citizens associations, and the media. The network has a Research Triangle Chapter, with scholars from Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and NC State.

NCPIRG wins grant to support student voting at 7 NC campuses

Congrats to NCPIRG, recipient of one of seven recently awarded Students Learn Students Vote coalition grants. NCPIRG will work with seven campuses in North Carolina in 2017 to engage students in local elections, to create democratic engagement action plans, build campus wide coalitions, and help with implementation of engagement efforts. Campuses include: North Carolina Central University; Durham Technical CC; North Carolina A&T State University; Guilford Technical College; Shaw University; Wake Technical CC; & North Carolina State University.

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CEEP campuses will explore how to create climate of civic learning

Published July 3, 2017

Creating a Campus Climate Supporting Political Learning and Engagement

A collaborative pilot program between the Campus Election Engagement Project and Wisconsin Campus Compact

Over the 2017-2018 school year, the Campus Election Engagement Project and Wisconsin Campus Compact will work with campuses to consider how to bolster political learning and engagement on campuses during the off-election year. Political engagement can include a broad range of “politics as usual” and “politics not as usual” activities including engaging in the electoral process (voting, campaigning, running for office, serving as a public official, collective activism (community organizing, mobilizing others to address a public problem), advocating (writing and publishing commentary, speaking publicly), and convening (organizing dialogues facilitate change, hosting issue forums). Political engagement can happen with or without government involvement. We explicitly define political learning and engagement to include understanding and addressing the dynamics and effects of systems, structures, and power, specifically political (political parties, groups), economic (socio-economic status, democracy and capitalism), and social (the role of identity in public decision making, etc.).

Campuses will compile teams and participate in monthly webinars and group feedback sessions to assess their institution’s campus climate regarding its friendliness toward political learning and engagement activities.  Teams will conduct an abbreviated self-assessment about what on-campus factors matter most that support engagement.  Each month, campus teams will have activities that move them toward creating a plan they can begin implementing the Spring of 2018 and into the 2018-2019 school year.  To participate please fill out this interest form.

Guest Facilitator: Nancy Thomas, Tufts University

Proposed Timeline and Activities

July-August

  • We’re looking to work with a set of campuses in every CEEP-supported state (3-5 campuses) to improve democratic learning and engagement.  A campus should indicate their interest by submitting information about who on their team will participate in this pilot effort. Ideally campus teams would include chief academic affairs officers, chief student affairs officers, campus vote committee representatives, and students.  However, teams can include only one or two members as well.

September 12th, 3 pm EST – Webinar #1

  • Celebratory launch – “We have 1 year to get ready for the next election! This is a teachable moment for our campuses! You have the opportunity to shape culture”
  • Explain research about campus climate, methods
  • Materials needed: Packet of information about current research.
  • Task: Complete checklist of campus climate: Collect info on diversity / political engagement data and studies, were there major issues on campus regarding political tensions / hate crimes, etc. This checklist helps teams investigate what’s happening on their campuses

October 10th, 3 pm EST – Webinar # 2

  • Reporting out about the checklists
  • Speaker presents findings about campus climate inhibitors for political engagement
  • Materials needed: Self-assessment / reflection tool
  • Task: Reflection on their campus climate – Introduce abbreviated self-assessment

November 14th, 3 pm EST– Webinar # 3

  • Review self-assessment / reflection tool
  • Starting to develop aspects of the plan and strategies for buy-in
  • Speaker covers different strategies to improve the various areas of campus climate
  • Identified the area of campus climate they want to tackle
  • Materials needed: Guide for improving campus climate
  • Task: Create implementation plan

February 13th, 3 pm EST – Webinar # 4

  • Sharing implementation plan with the group
  • Getting feedback
  • Continue the celebration!
  • Task: Continue implementation plan

March 13th, 3 pm EST– Webinar # 5

  • Peer learning and feedback

March – In-person meeting at Campus Compact national conference (Indianapolis)- Optional

  • Professional development check-in
  • Debrief about what’s come up

April 10th, 3 pm EST– Measuring Impact

  • Sustainability plans
  • Celebratory close-out
  • Final debrief
  • Evaluations

Info sheet (updated 7.19.17) CEEPCampusClimateWebinars

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Recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirms NC legislative districts are illegally gerrymandered by race

Published June 12, 2017

Update on litigation affecting NC elections: On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that NC state legislative districts were racially gerrymandered and thus illegal. But the Supreme Court did not affirm the lower court’s prescribed remedy — that the state of NC draw new districts and hold special statewide elections in 2017, an unusual occurrence in what would typically be a year of local elections. Instead, the Supreme Court ordered the lower court to reconsider the remedy and balance benefits against the burdens and costs a special election would entail.

Learn more:

“US Supreme Court affirms NC legislative districts as racial gerrymanders” in the Raleigh News & Observer

“Breaking: Supreme Court Summarily Affirms NC Racial Gerrymandering Case, Revives Chance of Special Election in 2017 Pending New Hearing” in Election Law Blog.

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Create a Work Study Position to support Campus Voter Engagement

Published April 26, 2017

The national Campus Election Engagement Project says campuses can continue non-partisan, student-led voter engagement efforts through the use of Work-Study positions.

CEEP is one of several national organizations (including Andrew Goodman Foundation and Campus Vote Project) that fund student voter engagement fellows, especially during election years. But given limited resources, CEEP and similar programs can support few such positions in off-years. According to CEEP, “One excellent alternative is supporting them through Work-Study, which lets them help engage your campus throughout the academic year.”

CEEP has produced a new guide for campuses about using Work-Study funds to support students leading voter engagement efforts.

View the resource online: http://www.campuselect.org/work-study-funding.html

Access the pdf: CEEP_Work-study-Funding_170425

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CANCELED: Pathways to Civic Leadership Workshop on Feb. 25

Published January 30, 2017

We regret to announce that the Pathways to Civic Leadership Workshop, originally scheduled for Feb. 25, 2017, has been canceled. We hope to offer this session for students in the future, but we have not determined a make-up date or location.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Students still interested in preparation for seeking public office may contact the NC Institute of Public Leadership directly. Contact info is available on the IOPL website here.

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Post-election reflections and resources from Campus Compact

Published November 11, 2016

NatCClogoIn the wake of this week’s election, national Campus Compact has reaffirmed our commitment to strengthening democracy. Dr. Andrew Seligsohn, president of national Campus Compact, argues that we must “fortify the institutions in our society committed to openness, diversity, human dignity, and truth.” In a recent blog post, Dr. Seligsohn recalls the history of own family’s struggle for democracy and humane values, and concludes:

“All of us who work every day to ensure that higher education rises to the challenge of its public purposes now must gather our own strength in our own ways. Then we must get back to work with even greater focus, clarity, and energy.”

Compact ally Dr. John Reiff, a teacher, scholar, organizer, and Director Emeritus at UMass Amherst Civic Engagement and Service-Learning, offers his own hope after a historic and divisive presidential election. In a video statement, John encourages us to join him and Campus Compact in committing to the “long haul” of fighting for democracy.

Finally, Nancy Thomas, director of Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, along with her colleague Adam Gismondi, wrote a prescient piece just before the election urging campuses to be ready on November 9th to make the election a teachable moment. Thomas and Gismondi assert the election must not be the end of civic engagement and call for “a learning agenda, not just a voting agenda.”

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Final tips for GOTV, Election Day, and Beyond

Published November 4, 2016

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We’ve compiled resources and suggestions to help our engaged campuses support students’ civic participation before and after the election.

GOTV & VOTER EDUCATION

  • NC Early Voting ends Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. Students can register and vote during early voting. Please encourage your students to early vote by providing them info about the nearest early voting site, required documentation (especially for 1st time voters in a county), and non-partisan candidate guides (see below). Find NC voter resources here: ncvoter.org
  • Plan campus GOTV events and check GOTV Tips and Ideas from CEEP – most important: encourage students to make a plan to vote. This online pledge form from Campus Vote Project leads student through the vote plan process.
  • Share information so students can be informed voters, especially on “down ballot” races. Recommended voter ED sites:
  • For students interested in 3rd parties, share CEEP’s Guide to voting Third Party, and resources from org about electoral reform.

ELECTION DAY

  • Uber just announced that they have teamed up with Google to launch a special in-app feature on November 8th to help users locate their polling location and seamlessly request a ride. Additionally, new users can use the promo code “VOTETODAY” to get $20 off their first ride. You can find out more information about Uber’s Election Day feature here: https://newsroom.uber.com/vote/.
  • Voter Assistance Hotline: During Early Voting period or on Election Day, anyone can call 888-OUR-VOTE (888-687-8683 – the Democracy NC line), or 866-OUR VOTE (the national hotline).
  • Counter worries of voter intimidation by sharing NC voter’s bill of rights.
  • If you are hosting an election watch event, consider building in opportunities throughout the evening for students to talk and express feelings. You might even take periodic “time-outs” from the broadcast to have these conversations. Check out CEEP’s classroom conversations guide or the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) guide to Facilitating Political Discussions. Invite political science faculty or others to facilitate.

POST-ELECTION

  • “What will we do on November 9th?” a Campus Compact blog post from staff of Tuft’s Institute on Democracy & Higher Education – considers the role our campuses can play in affirming civil discourse, furthering civic learning, and fostering civic engagement regardless of the election’s outcome. Among the post-election actions they suggest:
    • Sending email from Chancellor/President/SGA affirming campus commitment to civility and respect, unity, and continued civic engagement
    • Hosting civic conversations (like Deliberative Dialogue, open space, or other methods) to process feelings and issues
    • Civics 101 or advocacy workshops (like this Civics 101 program from League of Women Voters of Mecklenburg County) to help students understand democratic participation doesn’t end with election – we should continue to make our voice heard and hold elected officials accountable.
  • Plan a de-brief with your campus election engagement team to discuss next steps and structures for institutionalizing future election engagement work. Who will continue the work and what shape will it take? What issues will be explored?
  • NC Campus Compact and other partners will host a statewide lessons learned online de-brief in mid-December. Details coming soon.
  • On Feb. 25, NC Campus Compact will again sponsor a “Pathways to Civic Leadership” training geared for college students, in partnership with NC Institute of Political Leadership. Details to come here.
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