Category: TDC Blog
Pew’s Voting Information Project (VIP)
Pew’s Voting Information Project (VIP): Delivering Non-Partisan Voting Information in 2016 What’s the first thing you do when you realize there’s an election coming? If you’re like most people, you probably open a search engine and search “where’s my polling place?” or “what’s on my ballot?” To make sure you can find this information and trust what you find, The Pew Charitable Trusts partnered with election officials and Google in 2008 to create the Voting Information Project (VIP) to give voters access to the information they need to cast a ballot on or before Election Day. VIP has already provided election information for 44 elections, […]
Read More...Engage the Election Summer 2016 Webinars: Recording & RSVP
Engage the Election Summer 2016 Webinars: Recording & RSVP RECORDING AVAILABLE Webinar #5 | Walk2Vote: Student Empowerment through Civic Engagement | Thursday, July 28, 2016 Walk2Vote (http://walk2vote.com/) is a student led, student executed, non-partisan political engagement program created by students from the University of Houston-Downtown (Texas). It has grown from a local/campus-based initiative to what is now a national movement. We discussed how to host a Walk 2 Vote campaign on your campus. Speaker: John Locke, Walk2Vote Co-Founder and former Student Body President, University of Houston-Downtown When: Thursday, July 28, 2016 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EST Recording of webinar […]
Read More...Engage the Election 2016 Webinar: Engaging Student Voters in a Modern Democracy
Engage the Election 2016 Webinar: Engaging Student Voters in a Modern Democracy Join the TurboVote team and campus partners for “Voter Registration & Campus Technology: Engaging Student Voters by the Thousands.” The webinar takes place on Wednesday, August 24 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT as a part of the ADP/TDC Engage the Election 2016 series. RSVP here. Voting is the most basic form of civic participation we have in our democracy—one person, one vote. No matter political stance, line of work, or station in life, everyone can support the fundamental notion that conducting regular, nonpartisan elections furthers that idea. […]
Read More...#CLDE16 in Review
Our recent 2016 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting in Indianapolis, Ind. brought together a collection of faculty, students, administrators, community partners and representatives from our national sponsor and partner organizations committed to advancing civic learning and democratic engagement through higher education. Highlights of our time together: By The Numbers 515 participants, representing 156 colleges and universities as well as 44 other organizations. 66 AASCU/ADP Campuses 43 TDC Campuses 46 NASPA Lead Campuses 113 Students 11 Sponsors/Exhibitors Social Media Use and #CLDE16 Representatives (Nathan Carpenter & Steve Hunt) from Illinois State University’s Social Media Analytics Command Center (SMACC) analyzed […]
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