Dickinson Recognized as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting
National Recognition for Dickinson Voter Engagement Efforts
Dickinson has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting. The ALL IN Most Engaged Campuses for College Student Voting recognizes colleges and universities for outstanding efforts to increase nonpartisan student voter participation. Dickinson joins a group of 471 colleges and universities recognized by ALL IN for completing four core actions:
- Participating in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
- Sharing 2022 National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement Reports (NSLVE) with campus voting data with ALL IN
- Developing and submitting a 2024 democratic engagement action plan with ALL IN
- Having a current signatory to ALL IN’s Higher Education Presidents’ Commitment to Full Student Voter Participation.
“Dickinson has long been committed to voter education and engagement, as it is a crucial pillar of our democracy,” said President John E. Jones III '77, P'11. “We’re especially proud of our non-partisan, student-led group Dickinson Votes for undertaking this critical work to help our students ensure their voices are heard.”
This year, Dickinson Votes registered more than 300 students. The 8-year-old initiative aims to underscore the ease of registering to vote and the importance of voting by running education programs across campus, including collaborating with Dickinson professors for more than 50 classroom visits and creating unique content explaining the voting process. On Election Day, Dickinson Votes coordinated a team of volunteers to celebrate student voters by handing out stickers and snacks when students finished voting. More than 900 Dickinson students voted in person at their polling place at Carlisle’s Bosler Library.
“The research is clear: colleges and universities that make intentional efforts to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement have higher campus voter registration and voter turnout rates. This year we saw more colleges than ever before step up their efforts to ensure that their students were registered and ready to make their voices heard at the ballot box,” said Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, executive director of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. “These Most Engaged Campuses are setting the standard for nonpartisan civic engagement work for colleges and universities across the country.”
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge empowers colleges and universities to achieve excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement. Campuses that join the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge complete a set of action items, with the support of ALL IN staff, to institutionalize nonpartisan civic learning and voter participation on their campus. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge currently engages 10.8 million students from more than 1,075 institutions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Published November 26, 2024