Resources
Strengthening American Democracy: A Guide For Developing an Action Plan to Increase Civic Learning, Political Engagement, and Voter Participation Among College Students by SLSV Member Organizations
This improved and expanded guide is designed to help faculty, staff, and students write strong campus action plans to increase nonpartisan civic learning, political engagement, and voter participation among college students. It provides a framework for developing and documenting institutional goals and strategies. It is not meant to be prescriptive and should be adapted to your institutional context.
The accompanying rubric is designed to help you self-assess your campus democratic engagement action plan so that you can identify potential areas for improvement and build on existing strengths.
Votes & Ballots! by Democracy Works
Votes & Ballots! is a game of team-wide strategy that takes the guesswork out of on-campus democratic engagement. Players are tasked with creating a comprehensive action plan while keeping in mind their institution’s historical voting rates, their resources, and the unique challenges faced by student voters. Votes and Ballots! is a project of Democracy Works, makers of TurboVote and is available as a free download on their website.
National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, an applied research center at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University
The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) offers colleges and universities an opportunity to learn their student registration and voting rates and, for interested campuses, a closer examination of their campus climate for political learning and engagement and correlations between specific student learning experiences and voting. Participation is free, easy, and protective of student privacy.
Public Action Plans & NSLVE Reports
View the action plans and NSLVE reports of campuses that participate in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. You can also view the top 13 action plans from ALL IN’s early 2020 action plan review process here.