National Study on Learning Voting and Engagement

Posted by CIRCLE on December 08, 2014

Are your students voting? Find out by signing up for the National Study on Learning Voting and Engagement (NSLVE), a free opportunity to learn your student registration and voting rates for the 2012 and 2014 election. NSLVE does not send out surveys; instead, their researchers only ask campuses to sign a two-page authorization form (see form here).

http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NSLVE-Authorization-Form-2014-.pdf

This form allows NSLVE to send your campus a detailed and confidential report with student registration and voting rates broken down by different characteristics (see sample here).

http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NSLVE-sample-race-and-gender-report.pdf

This study complies with FERPA and NSLVE researchers only work with de-identified data to ensure that student privacy is fully protected. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity. To date, over 500 campuses nationwide are supporting NSLVE and that number is increasing rapidly. If you have any questions about participating in the study, please feel free to contact the research administrator, Margaret Brower at Margaret.brower@tufts.edu.