Ideally, the U.S. voting system would work to select public officials elected by the people affected by their decisions. Research on the turnout gap has shown that not all groups vote in equal proportion, which leads to unrepresentative outcomes. With...

When students “go away” for college, they have the choice to vote from either their prior community or their campus community. What do our historical data suggest about where and how these students have voted in the last presidential election, and...

In the 2018 midterm elections, the average student voting rate at U.S. colleges and universities more than doubled from the last midterm elections, jumping from 19% in 2014 to 40% in 2018. Other findings from 2018 include:

• In the 2018...

Higher education has long accepted its role in educating for the future and health of democracy, but how colleges and universities meet this responsibility changes based on the social context of the times. Recently the rationale for...

Originally published for AIR (the Association for Institutional Research), this is an article by several members of the IDHE team on college...

The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) is the first and only study to objectively examine student and institution-level data on student voting and to share these data with participating campuses. ...

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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...

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On March 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decided Pompeo v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, ruling in favor of a university that had been accused of discriminating...