It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as we know it. As a college student, I feel as if my life has been flipped upside down. One day, I’m enjoying spring break in New York City, and the very next day I return home and [...]
Campus Election Engagement Project would like to acknowledge and extend our support to those directly and indirectly impacted by the Coronavirus. Many of the schools we work with have either suspended or will change their policies for the remainder of the semester in regards to students congregating and meeting. This makes sense [...]
News reports that youth voting fell on Super Tuesday were worrisome. To hear that the percentage of voters under thirty dropped by 3-4 points in places like North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia was deeply concerning. Not only could this mean that something wasn’t working in our model; it could [...]
On February 11, 2020, the Zegar Family Foundation (ZFF) awarded a $100,000 grant to Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) as part of their Democracy Initiative. This ZFF initiative aims to increase voter participation through voter registration, education, and get out the vote efforts. Their contribution will allow CEEP to [...]
Radio station WFYI in Indianapolis recently spoke with leaders of the Indiana Campus Compact, including 2018 CEEP fellow Ally Nickerson. https://www.wfyi.org/ CEEP fellows Sydney Mastey and Matthew McCoshen, as well as national fellowship director Courtney Cochran, were interviewed about their work by the Superior (WI) Telegram. https://www.superiortelegram.com/ Florida Director Monica Matteo-Salinas and Georgia Director/Florida Assistant Director Ben Marcus [...]
For many schools, May is like the end of a race: graduation, end of school ceremonies, finals, the hint of summer coming! This semester, like most of them, flew by fast and furious. You’ve worked hard, we get it. But civic dialogue is still important for students. They want [...]
We were delighted that youth turnout increased from 21% in 2014 to 31% in 2018, higher than any mid-term total in 25 years. Media analysts are still crunching the numbers, but from early estimates, this means approximately 4.5 million more young voters than 2014. That’s staggering. Like anything else that’s [...]
A message from the Campus Election Engagement Project’s National Director, Amy Ludwig: Today is election day, and for those of us working in organizations such as the Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP), we have been preparing and helping schools across the country get ready for this day all year. Administrators, [...]
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 [...]
