“Integrating” means adding a voter registration touch point as part of processes that every student has to go through while attending your institution (e.g. core classes, orientation, academic advising, parking pass pickup). 

It is important to use an equity lens to intentionally integrate into processes and spaces that reach traditionally underrepresented students, especially students left out of processes such as orientation and first-year experience classes. Working intentionally with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) offices, commuter services, affinity-based student organizations, and other strategic partnerships can be essential for a truly equitable effort.

Figure out the best way that you can use this Toolkit to Ask Every Student on your campus by filling out the First Step Form! After filling out the form, you’ll automatically receive an email response with your answers to help you apply these tools to your context.

Tools on this page:

• Faculty Champions Toolkit

• Ask Every Student Canvas Module

Faculty Champions Toolkit

What is a Faculty Champion? A faculty champion is a professor or lecturer who integrates 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 toolkit includes:

• Customizable template to create your own menu of opportunities to present to faculty + offer tiered rewards and recognition to faculty champions for implementing prepared activities

• Sample google form for outreach

• Example back-end organizing spreadsheet

• Sample classroom voter registration and democratic engagement opportunity ideas

• Email template for outreach

• Different faculty organizing models to choose from

• Sample Faculty Champion Award Badges (pictured here)
  
  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.

Ask Every Student Canvas Module

Integrate democratic engagement into your Learning Management System (LMS) (i.e. Canvas, Blackboard, etc.) with a one-stop shop for students to access information and receive support for participating in the voting and democratic engagement processes. Faculty can add these into their class courses and ensure their students have full access to the information that you want students to know.

The module includes a guide for how to create editable, shareable modules with the information that meets your campus context. This module is currently live on the Canvas Commons for Canvas users, but you can embed the Virtual Voter Information Walkthrough Presentation onto other Learning Management System platforms.