Student voting participation at Hudson Valley Community College was up in last year’s election, increasing to 33.7 percent in 2018 from a rate of 17.1 percent in 2014.
The data comes from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, or NSLVE, conducted by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life. The study shows that nationwide, the voting rates at participating college campuses doubled on average compared to the previous 2014 midterm.
In 2018, the Average Institutional Voting Rate among campuses in the study was 39.1 percent, nearly 20 percentage points higher than 2014’s average turnout rate of 19.7 percent. Turnout increases were widespread, with virtually all campuses seeing an increase over 2014.
The report is the only national study of college-student voting and is based on the voting records of more than 10 million students at more than 1,000 American colleges and universities.
The study provides reports to participating colleges and universities, like Hudson Valley, which use them to support political learning and civic engagement, as well as to identify and address gaps in political and civic participation.
It is not too late for eligible students to register to vote in this year’s general election; to be eligible, your application must be received no later than Oct. 11. The college’s Center for Access and Assistive Technology is a National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) voter registration site. All forms to register are available in the center, which is located on the first floor of the Siek Campus Center, room 130, or online at the National Voter Registration site.
You may also see students with voter information and registration forms at various campus events this fall. These are organized by Student Activities, the Center for Access and Assistive Technologies and the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement.
Published: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:18:20 +0000 by e.bryant