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its fifth student voting honor roll. The listed schools have met
multiple criteria. They have submitted an ALL IN action plan
in 2018 and 2020. They've signed up to receive NSLVE data
about their own campus registration and turnout rates. And
they've made both their 2016 and 2018 NSLVE data available
to the public. They have, in short, shown a repeated commitment to increasing student voting and have been transparent
about the results.
This year, a total of 157 schools made the list. This is 18
more schools than made the previous honor roll, released in
February, and nearly twice the number that made the honor roll released last year. Much as in the past, it's an eclectic
group. Many prestigious, private four-year colleges perform
well, but they are easily outnumbered by public two- and fouryear institutions. Some of America's most famous schools
didn't make the cut.
The list relies on participation in programs such as
ALL IN and NSLVE because raw turnout data isn't available
for all institutions. But to reward truly standout colleges,
this year we're ordering the honor roll by voter registration
rate. The top-performing school-the Maryland Institute
College of Art, or MICA-receives its own distinction for
having a registration rate above 95 percent. The next eight
schools are also specially demarcated for topping 85 percent. Not all of these institutions performed so remarkably
well in the past. MICA, for example, increased its registra-
tion rate by more than 25 points between 2014 and 2018.
It's possible for schools to quickly up their game if they
work at it.
This means that administrators must incorporate registration and voting into their orientations (digital or otherwise), and faculty must make a point of discussing it in their
classes. For schools struggling to figure out the best way to increase rates, the new Ask Every Student program by the National Resource Consortium on Full Student Voter Participation helps colleges devise plans to, quite literally, ask each of
their students to register.
But for school employees, much of the work really just
involves empowering students. In everything from protests
to registration drives, young Americans have proved that they
are committed to making their voices heard in 2020. Some
have already found ways to work through the voting challenges created by the pandemic. Students in California's Students
Vote Project have discussed hopping onto Zoom lectures to
encourage their peers to cast ballots.
It's not difficult to see why they're so enthusiastic. The
stakes of the upcoming election are monumental, and young
people will have to live for longer than anyone else with the
consequences. They want to participate. It's imperative that
colleges do everything they can to help.
Daniel Block is an editor at the Washington Monthly.
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