For most of my life, a lot of people I knew thought politics were too complicated to understand, too divisive or too uninteresting to involve themselves in. After November of 2016, however, all of that changed. The 2016 general election caused people on both sides of the aisle to become [...]
Da’juh Sawyer’s, CEEP’s Central Florida Assistant Director, fellows played a vital role in registering as many students to vote as possible on National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). According to Nonprofit Vote’s National Voter Registration Day site, “National Voter Registration Day is a national holiday celebrating our democracy. It was first [...]
Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) State Director, Donna Anderson, and CEEP Arizona Fellow, Michael Newman, coordinated with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona to host an exciting National Voter Registration Day event in the Student Pavilion. Several tents were up representing voter registration groups, student groups, and outside [...]
Campus Election Engagement fellows in North Florida held events in Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Jacksonville reaching out to students and encouraging them to register to vote and get informed about what’s on the ballot. They put together classroom presentations, set up tables with information, decorations, and food, asked students to [...]
With election-related mail piling into their mailboxes and some of Nevada’s races ranked as the most competitive in the country, students in a special election newsroom pop up class at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, are setting the framework for an exciting semester. In [...]
Iowa Campuses engaged student voters in many unique ways on National Voter Registration Day. There are 13 CEEP Fellows at 9 different campuses who all hosted their own events, and many other campuses also used NVRD materials to register voters. Samantha Bayne, our Iowa Director, personally visited three very [...]
This spring has been a very exciting time for the Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP). We welcomed 12 student spring fellows are facilitating voter registration drives on campuses and distributing resources and information about the upcoming November elections. Fellows can be an integral part of a campus-wide plan to [...]
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, in cooperation with the Campus Election Engagement Project and Iowa Campus Compact, hosted a two-day College Voter Engagement Summit April 13th – 14th at the State Capitol to help prepare students for the 2018 elections and identify best practices for non-partisan voter registration [...]
Your vote is your voice. Voting can be a powerful tool to effect local, state, and national change. Some elections can be decided by just one vote! CEEP is committed to getting all eligible students registered to vote. Many students don’t know that they have the right to register [...]
CEEP is sponsoring an exciting partnership at the University of Nevada, Reno with a focus on newsworthy articles connected to the Latino and multi-cultural communities. Two of our ‘fellows’ hail from the Reynolds School of Journalism which has a bi-lingual independent, multimedia news outlet, Noticiero Movil. Two Fellows are [...]
