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 [...]
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 [...]
