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How Colleges Ignite Civic Engagement

“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.

Is Civic Education Effective?

For the past three years the NSLVE, a program run by Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, has given institutions a baseline measure of how many students are voting