Institutional Partnerships
Strategic partnerships make asking every student possible.
In order to ask every student, you will need to partner intentionally with different stakeholders, groups, and leaders across your institution. These partnerships are essential for institutionalizing this work on your campus and ensuring your Ask Every Student strategy is integrated into the operations of your institution. Institutionalization can be reached through creating and sustaining equitable and inclusive campus voting coalitions and having senior leadership actionably commit to full student voter participation.
It also means establishing a meaningful nonpartisan culture around voting that includes non-eligible student voters and ensures students lead the creative direction of the work while receiving institutional support. The work should be able to continue despite turnover between staff and student leaders.
Build institutional partnerships for full participation.
Institutionalize civic engagement by creating and sustaining equitable and inclusive campus voting coalitions and having senior leadership actionably commit to full student voter participation.
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Senior Leadership Commitment
Gain commitment to full student voter participation from your institution’s senior leadership through ALL IN’s Higher Education Presidents’ Commitment to Full Student Voter Participation.
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Voter Registration Integration Checklist
Use this checklist to develop relationships with gatekeepers of processes on a campus and create an ask to integrate voter registration into their program.
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Building Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Campus Coalitions for Full Participation
This curriculum includes interactive, collaborative activities to identify and map intentional, equitable, and inclusive partnerships that focus on closing the voting rate gap between white students and students of color.
Connect with Registrars for Civic Engagement
One strategy for contacting every enrolled student on a campus is to work with the Office of the Registrar to identify students. 2022 Codesigner Cohort participants Dr. Teri Platt and Dr. Sabrina Riles from Clark Atlanta University have developed a timeline for aligning course registration and enrollment with voter registration, outlined ways to obtain student/university permission to contact students for voter registration, and highlighted strategies for outreach and data tracking.
2022 Codesigner Cohort participants Dr. Teri Platt and Dr. Sabrina Riles from Clark Atlanta University present their strategic partnerships strategies.