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Youth Defy Assumptions of Low Civic Engagement
The Andrew Goodman Foundation and Generation Citizen demonstrate that through a combination of positive peer pressure, education about civic institutions and government at all levels, and awareness of local issues, Generation Z can be a mighty force that makes civic engagement not an anomaly, but a norm.
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Elections law targeted over early voting sites
Part of a new elections law that requires “sufficient nonpermitted parking” at early voting sites will create an unconstitutional burden on young voters attending colleges or universities, plaintiffs in a long-running dispute over campus early voting argued in documents filed Monday.
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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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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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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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Oxford Girl Scout Presents Her Mural Honoring Three Slain Civil Rights Workers of 1964 Freedom Summer
Cope, a rising senior at Talawanda High School, received a $1,000 grant from the E. W. Smith Family Charitable Trust to create the mural as a project for her Gold award from the Girl Scouts of America. The mural honors three civil rights volunteers who trained in Oxford during the Freedom Summer of 1964 and were murdered in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan a few weeks later as they tried to register voters there.
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Register to Vote at Suffolk County Community College
Suffolk County Community College's Center for Social Justice and Understanding partnered with The Andrew Goodman Foundation to walk students through the process of voter registration.
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Michigan’s voting rights initiative highlights a push to engage campuses
A briefing on how student-led lawsuits and policy initiatives are transforming campus civic engagement. - Education Dive
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