WASHINGTON, D.C. - The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) recognized several NESCAC institutions for their nonpartisan democratic engagement efforts that fostered high levels of student voter engagement in the 2022 midterm elections.
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge empowers colleges and universities to achieve excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement. NESCAC institutions were recognized alongside more than 500 campuses using data from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) out of Tufts University, which found that colleges and universities had the second-highest voter turnout among students in a midterm election since NSLVE began measuring this data. The full list of campus award winners can be viewed here.
- State & City Challenge Awards
Bates College - Highest Voting Rate & Highest Voter Registration Rate among Maine 4-Year Insititutions
Hamilton College - Highest Voter Registration Rate among New York 4-Year Insititutions
- Athletic Conference Challenge Awards (NESCAC Votes)
Bates College - Highest Voting Rate & Highest Voter Registration
- Seal Designees
Nine NESCAC institutions were recognized with Platinum, Gold, or Silver seals for various levels of voter participation in the 2022 midterm elections: Bates (platinum), Bowdoin (gold), Colby (gold), Amherst (silver), Conn. College (silver), Hamilton (silver), Tufts (silver), Wesleyan (silver), Williams (silver)
More than 1,060 institutions enrolling more than 10 million students participate in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, which supports colleges and universities in achieving excellence in nonpartisan student voter engagement.
ABOUT NESCAC Votes
In 2020, NESCAC institutions partnered with the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge to create a NESCAC Votes initiative. The NESCAC Votes initiative seeks to inform and increase civic engagement and share non-partisan voter registration tools and resources regarding the general and midterm election cycles.
The NESCAC Votes initiative grew out of collaborations between staff at Middlebury College, Bowdoin College and the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge in the summer of 2018. It relies on groundbreaking research and analysis on college-student voting conducted by Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy & Higher Education.
ABOUT ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) is a national nonpartisan initiative of Civic Nation, a 501(c)(3) organization. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge strives to change civic culture and institutionalize democratic engagement activities and programs on college campuses, making voter participation a defining feature of campus life.
ALL IN, in collaboration with over 1,050 higher education institutions, seeks to make participation in local, state, and federal elections a social norm; substantially increase the number of college students who are democratically engaged on an ongoing basis, during and between elections, and not just at the polls, and; make educating for democratic engagement on college campuses an accepted and expected part of the culture and curriculum so that students graduate with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and values needed to be an informed and active citizen.
