The Ask Every Student Faculty Champions Toolkit

What is a Faculty Champion?

A faculty champion is a professor or lecturer who integrates nonpartisan democratic engagement activities into their classes and helps their students engage with their community through voting and other activities. Faculty Champions serve a vital role in connecting students with existing efforts to promote civic engagement at their institutions.

Use the Faculty Champions Toolkit to strategically partner with faculty to integrate voter registration and democratic engagement opportunities into their courses.

We encourage you to customize the language and design elements in this guide to fit your campus context- including adapting this guide for other stakeholders, like peer leaders and staff advisors.

This is a resource of Ask Every Student, a project of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, the Campus Vote Project, NASPA, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition. Learn more about Ask Every Student at studentvoting.org.

The Faculty Champions Toolkit was made in collaboration with the 2020-2021 Codesigner Campus Cohort, with special thanks to the University of Mississippi, University of San Francisco, Clark Atlanta University, Mesa Community College, University of Michigan, University of Nevada, Reno, Arizona State University and the TX Votes team at University of Texas at Austin.