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Miami Dade Student Receives Award at National Summit
As a Vote Everywhere Ambassador, Rebecca attended a city budget hearing prior to the 2018 Midterm Elections and, alongside a coalition of students, delivered a compelling speech to the County Commission, which successfully advocated for the addition of two early voting sites at Miami Dade College. As a result, nearly 11,000 people were able to take advantage of the early voting sites on Kendall and North's campuses.
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Bard College Student Ava Mazzye ’20 Receives The AGF Hidden Heroes Award
Bard College student Ava Mazzye ’20 was recognized for her work as part of a team in the fall 2018 semester that registered over 400 students to vote, hosted 26 events, and engaged over 550 people on Election Day with shuttles, educational materials, and a results return watch party.
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Summit prepares college students for advancing 2020 voter participation
The Andrew Goodman Foundation hosted 150 students and faculty from 60 different schools across the country at their fifth annual National Civic Leadership Training Summit at Montclair State University. The bipartisan organization endeavors to increase voter participation across campuses and beyond.
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Summit prepares college students for advancing 2020 voter participation
Andrew’s legacy and passion for equality now lives on through the organization’s Vote Everywhere program. The five-day summit provides student participants with training, strategies and tools needed to advance voter participation on their college campuses with the 2020 elections approaching.
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These voters outnumber baby boomers. What college students want to do in 2020.
Students from New Jersey and as far away as Louisiana gathered at Montclair State University this week for a 5-day summit to undergo training needed to increase civic engagement on their campuses in preparation of the upcoming 2020 election, learning from some of the country’s most insightful speakers and visionaries.
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Florida Lawmakers Aim To Restrict Early Voting Locations Based On Parking Availability
Florida lawmakers are on the verge of enacting a measure that would require election officials to determine early voting sites have a “sufficient” amount of accessible parking, a move civil rights groups say will make it harder to vote early on college campuses.
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College students from across the country strategize solutions for voter apathy
About 150 students on Thursday discussed the widespread distrust about the electoral process on their campuses — from Iowa to Illinois to Ohio to New Jersey — at the 2019 National Civic Leadership Training Summit, a five-day event that takes place through Sunday at Montclair State University.
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A new voting issue, or old-fashioned GOP voter suppression?
The case was brought by the League of Women Voters of Florida and Andrew Goodman Foundation on behalf of six students, five at UF and one at Florida State. After they won, the state followed Walker’s orders, and about 60,000 college students cast ballots at campus voting sites last fall for the first time.
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Three civil rights workers were missing. Sen. Eastland said it was fake news.
Sen. James O. Eastland told President Lyndon B. Johnson it was fake news. When Johnson asked Senator Eastland what should do about the three men missing, Sen. Eastland replied, "Well, I don't know. I don't believe there's three missing. I believe it's a publicity stunt."
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Living the Legacy of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner 55 Years Later
On the 55th anniversary of their murders, AGF President David Goodman talks about living the legacy of Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman today.
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