Get Out the Student Vote
Posted by Liberal Education Magazine on September 27, 2022
Data from the 2020 elections to help campuses get students to the polls in November
A main objective of US higher education has long been to prepare college and university students to participate in and strengthen democracy, and student voting rates are one indicator of how well institutions are fulfilling this civic mission. Student voting also matters because students are part of a formidable voting bloc. Students, of course, are not a monolithic group, but with this kind of power, they can shape policy for decades.
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