With U.S. midterm elections coming up, VCU News took a look at student voting activity on campus. VCU was recently named a “Voter Friendly Campus” by the Campus Vote Project, which recognizes schools that develop plans to coordinate administrators, faculty and student organizations in civic and electoral engagement.
In 2016, 61.5 percent of VCU students voted, outpacing the national voting rate among all higher education institutions of 50.4 percent, according to data compiled by the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, an initiative of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University.
“Since President Rao first came to VCU, he’s spoken about: what is the hallmark of a VCU education? It’s an engaged, real-world experience. That happens within the classroom, but also outside the classroom. It’s what you do on campus, as well as in the off-campus community,” said Lynn Pelco, Ph.D., associate vice provost for community engagement. “And voting is a large part of that.”
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