IDHE's latest release, Election Imperatives: Ten Recommendations to Increase College Student Voting and Improve Political Learning and Engagement in Democracy, is designed to help you as you plan for the 2018 midterms on your campus and beyond.
Announcements and Opportunities
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It's time to reauthorize! We have begun renewing authorization forms for the next 5-year cycle (2018-2023). Every campus must complete this reauthorization process to remain in NSLVE beyond 2018.
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The $100k grant will help us study and promote dialogue across differences and promote political learning and engagement on college campuses.
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We're offering a new set of IDHE “office hours” in which our staff will be available to answer questions about your NSLVE report or help you troubleshoot issues on your campus.
Featured Research
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The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) offers colleges and universities an opportunity to learn their student registration and voting rates and, for interested campuses, a closer examination of their campus climate for political…
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The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE, pronounced "n-solve") is a study of U.S. college and university student voting.…
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The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) offers colleges and universities an opportunity to learn their student registration and voting rates and, for interested campuses, a closer examination of their campus climate for political…
Latest Resources
Many college students attend college outside of their home state and have the option of voting in either locale. Where do they choose to vote?
In an effort to cut through the seemingly endless stream of news we're faced with, IDHE periodically releases short discussion guides, called "Making Sense of..." These short pieces are meant 1) as a way to become quickly acquainted with an...
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The debate over free speech and inclusion in higher education is not new, but it has reached new levels of vitriol and confusion as legislators and others beyond the academy argue for unfettered speech. Mandating speech rights on...
- Voting participation among Yale students rose from 32.7 percent in the 2012 presidential election to 56.7 percent in 2016, according to a report from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, or the NSLVE.Yale Daily News
- Nancy Thomas describes the campus environments to eschew, as well as those to nourish, in order to encourage free expression, inclusion and learning.Inside Higher Ed
- “We’ve been so scared of appearing partisan or political that we’re really not educating for democracy,” says Nancy Thomas, director of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, at Tufts University.The Chronicle of Higher Education