Institute for Democracy & Higher Education

Institute for Democracy & Higher Education Receives Lumina Foundation Grant

The Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE) has been awarded a $105,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to explore higher education’s unique role in educating for the health and future of an Inclusive Democracy.

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Are You in NSLVE?

Want to join NSLVE? The first step is to see if your institution is in the study.

Campus Boundaries Project

IDHE is proud to share The IDHE Campus Boundaries Project, an interactive tool that allows users to examine whether student and minority student communities of interest have been “stacked, packed, or cracked” to impact their vote power. Users can also use this tool to identify campuses within or near district boundaries and explore the issue of districting in a higher ed context.

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About IDHE

We are a leading venue for nonpartisan, applied research, resources, and advocacy on college student political learning and engagement in democracy.

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Resources & Research

Browse the resources to explore tools that will help advance political learning at your institution.

Election Imperatives

Election Imperatives is a collaborative, practitioner-focused document that grounds this important work in years of research.

Public Data Portal & Visualizations

IDHE creates data visualizations and interactive tools that are designed to provide new ways of looking at data.

The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE)

Our signature initiative NSLVE, is a robust study of college and university student voting and service to more 1,100 U.S. colleges and universities nationally. By supplying tailored NSLVE reports to each participating campus, IDHE is catalyzing change at the institutional level.

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