{"id":18403,"date":"2022-11-16T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=18403"},"modified":"2022-11-16T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:16:29","slug":"student-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/student-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"K Earns National Honor by Supporting Student Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/K-Votes-Supports-Student-Voting-with-a-Shuttle-to-the-Polls-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"K Votes Supports Student Voting with a Shuttle to the Polls\" class=\"wp-image-18408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/K-Votes-Supports-Student-Voting-with-a-Shuttle-to-the-Polls-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/K-Votes-Supports-Student-Voting-with-a-Shuttle-to-the-Polls-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/K-Votes-Supports-Student-Voting-with-a-Shuttle-to-the-Polls-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/K-Votes-Supports-Student-Voting-with-a-Shuttle-to-the-Polls-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/K-Votes-Supports-Student-Voting-with-a-Shuttle-to-the-Polls.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Civic Engagement Scholar Thomas Lichtenberg &#8217;23 and Eleanor Carr &#8217;23 were two of the integral<br>people working with K Votes to support student voting by organizing shuttles to the polls<br>for the 2022 Midterm Election.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A nonpartisan and nonprofit initiative is saluting Kalamazoo College today as one of 394 U.S. institutions doing the most in higher education to encourage student voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K is being recognized as a 2022 All-In Most-Engaged Campuses honoree, meaning that the College:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Reported its 2020 student voting data to the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE), which is run through the Institute of Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE) at Tufts University.<\/li><li>Shared that data with the All-In Campus Democracy Challenge, an effort that strives to improve and increase democratic-engagement activities on college campuses.<\/li><li>Developed and submitted to the All-In challenge a 2022 voter-engagement action plan.<\/li><li>Signed on to a national list of institutional presidents committing their colleges to efforts that increase student turnout at the polls.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>K Votes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cce.kzoo.edu\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cce.kzoo.edu\/\">Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement\u2019s<\/a> (CCE) nonpartisan\u202fcoalition\u202fto inform the College\u2019s students, faculty and staff members about voting\u202fand civic engagement, is the primary driver of K\u2019s efforts in increasing voter participation. In 2020, K eclipsed national averages for voter turnout as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/voter-turnout\/\">83.7 percent of the student body cast ballots<\/a> in the presidential election. That rate was the highest among all campuses in Michigan and put K in the top 4 percent of colleges and universities nationally that reported their data to the IDHE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K Votes representatives work in partnership with their student peers, the local League of Women Voters and the national Rock the Vote organization\u2014which is led by Executive Director Caroline DeWitt \u201904, a K alumna\u2014to register new voters,&nbsp;mail&nbsp;absentee ballots,&nbsp;provide rides&nbsp;to the polls,&nbsp;and&nbsp;distribute candidate information with maps to local polling places.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those endeavors are the hallmarks of a robust get-out-the-vote effort, currently led by CCE Program Associate Riley Gabriel &#8217;20 and K Votes Civic Engagement Scholar Thomas Lichtenberg &#8217;23, along with students, faculty, emeriti faculty and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn addition to CCE staff, we could not have done any of this without the rest of the K staff and faculty who were eager to help with driving, helping register voters, and just getting the word out,\u201d Lichtenberg said. \u201cWe appreciated the contributions of students Eleanor Carr, Lyrica Gee and Abby Stump, who worked closely with the CCE\u2019s Students for Reproductive Freedom, and we collaborated with the NAACP and League of Women Voters of the Kalamazoo Area, registering voters at the Women&#8217;s March and assisting with their candidate forums, led by the LWVKA\u2019s MerriKay Oleen-Burkey and Denise Hartsough.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYoung people are shaping our future in myriad ways, and their informed engagement in elections is vital,\u201d CCE Director Alison Geist said. \u201cThe CCE is grateful to our student leaders and all of the people in our community, both on and off campus, who energetically encouraged and enabled students to vote, many for the first time. 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