Community Engagement
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Mobilizing Students through Faculty Engagement: Join the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights
By Sabrina Medler As a young voter, and recent Political Science graduate from Stanford University, I understand the kinds of obstacles that impact students’ ability to vote. My goal is […]
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Political Participation in Immigrant Communities
Political participation is one of our most important civic duties. It is part of the original contract we the people agreed to when we founded this country, both native born citizens […]
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The Badger State Primary (Primaries) in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By the time that Wisconsinites cast our ballots in the presidential preference primary, we will have already voted in two primaries—and we have a couple more coming up later in the spring. Studies […]
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Getting out the Vote in the Valley: Connecting Politics and Participation to Youth
Inspired by the legacy and lessons learned from the historic 1964 Freedom Summer, students from UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced took their energy and activism home to the Central […]
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Fostering Youth Participation in the Ohio Primaries
The Ohio primaries are almost here! As a political science professor, it is my goal to help make sure that students are empowered to participate. Although only the Democratic party […]
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2020 Election in Alabama: What is at stake, what to expect?
The Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary mark the official beginning of the 2020 election season, though campaigning has been going on for a full year before the first primary […]
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Civics in the Lion’s Den: How the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith promotes civic engagement on campus
Williams Yamkam, assistant professor and Chair of the campus chapter of the American Democracy Project at the University of Arkansas, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. […]
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Civic Engagement as Critical Pedagogy at Middle Tennessee State University
Sekou Franklin, Associate Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. The views expressed in the posts and articles […]
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Democracy is More Than Just Voting
Matthew Draper, PhD student at the University of California, San Diego, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. The views expressed in the posts and articles featured […]
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Why Vote? Using Political Theory to Encourage Political Participation
Dannica Fleuss, postdoctoral research fellow at Helmut-Schmidt-University, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. The views expressed in the posts and articles featured in the RAISE the […]