Category: TDC Partners & Friends
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...#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 […]
Read More...RSVP Now for Summer TDC/ADP Engage the Election 2016 Webinars
We’re excited to announce our 5th and 6th ADP/TDC Engage the Election 2016 webinars powered by icitizen. These webinars are open to faculty, staff, students and friends. Webinar 5: Student Empowerment through Civic Engagement Thursday, July 28, 2016 | 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Eastern Please join us for a webinar on Student Empowerment through Civic Engagement on Thursday, July 28th, at 2 pm Eastern. During the program, John Locke, a former student body president at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) will introduce Walk 2 Vote, a student led, student executed, non-partisan political engagement program created by UHD […]
Read More...#CLDE16: Politically Speaking, Indy Edition Plenary
Politically Speaking, Indianapolis Edition: Religious Freedom vs. LGBT Rights in Indiana Friday, June 3, 2016 | 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. In February 2016, the Indiana state senate gave up on an attempt to pass compromise legislation expanding protections for LGBT persons in state law. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Travis Holdman, said that there simply was not enough support for it to pass. Sen. David Long, leader of the majority Republicans, indicated that efforts to find a balance between the civil rights for the LGBT community and religious liberty had satisfied no one. “We took a beating from all sides […]
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