Student Voters
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Preparing Your Students to be ALL IN for the 2020 Election
By Stephanie King In preparing for the 2020 general election, many political science faculty and civic educators are likely starting the year by educating college students about the electoral college, […]
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“Teachnology” and Civic Engagement in the Year of COVID-19 Instruction
By Alison Rios Millett McCartney As we start the Fall 2020 semester, many of us are left wondering – what can we actually do? With an unexpected transition to virtual […]
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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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Sharing Student Research on Voting Rights on Social Media
By Sara Chatfield This past year, I taught a senior capstone seminar focused on voting rights in the United States. Students selected a contemporary voting rights issue to research. Their […]
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Teaching the Power of Local Political Participation
By Melissa Michelson My Menlo College students are generally concerned with current events and politics at the federal level—including Supreme Court decisions and actions taken by Congress or the President—and […]
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Mapping the Geography of Gubernatorial Campaigns Using Social Media
What do a clam bake in Crisfield, Maryland, a Fourth of July parade in Windsor Heights, Iowa, and a minor league baseball game in Jacksonville, Florida have in common? They […]
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Your Guide to the Indiana Primaries
Voting can be a complicated process, especially during an unprecedented global pandemic, which has already disrupted, and will continue to disrupt, our electoral processes. This guide to the Indiana primary elections […]
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Using COVID-19 and Connecticut’s Primary Elections to Teach Political Science Concepts
Connecticut’s 2020 primary election is a great example of electoral politics to include in a variety of classroom lessons. For public policy courses, it showcases how focusing events, defined as “an event that is sudden; relatively uncommon; can […]
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Engaging Student Voters in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s primary elections will be held on Tuesday, April 28. In comparison to the early caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, and on Super Tuesday, this feels like a […]
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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 […]