Campus Compact is proud to announce a partnership with The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) – the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE).

NSLVE offers Compact campuses an opportunity to study student-voting rates and to correlate those rates with educational programs designed to increase student civic learning and engagement in democracy.

Here’s how it works:
Whether an individual registers and votes is a matter of public record. (How an individual votes is not.) Circle is working with an organization that collects state and local records into one national database that is widely used for academic research. They’ve developed a secure, confidential and FERPA-compliant system for matching enrollment lists with public records to obtain voting rates for their student bodies and any specified subgroups. Institutions will receive a report on trends and patterns in aggregate numbers. Neither CIRCLE nor the institutions will see individual students’ names or any other personally identifiable information, only aggregate numbers. For specifics, see the NSLVE FAQs.

We’re excited for this partnership because:

1. Voting is a critical indicator of civic engagement..
2. Participating members would be part of a cutting edge national research initiative. 
3. It’s free and easy!

In addition to reading the FAQs, you and your campuses can participate in an information session with CIRCLE. Click here for dates and instructions. 

Please direct any specific questions about NSLVE to Nancy Thomas, Director, CIRCLE’s Initiative for the Study of Higher Education and Public Life, at Nancy.Thomas {at} tufts(.)edu.

Civic Engagement can be found on the Alliance 4 Public Service website at: http://publicservice.newark.rutgers.edu

This online resource contains service-learning news, research, and events.

In conjunction with community partners, service-learning practitioners will strive to build upon the positive attributes of the rural culture while mitigating the negative factors. Rural Service Learning can involve studies, service, co-operative programs and projects, and policy development. In the process, students will develop their potential as future engaged citizens.

http://www.representativedemocracy.org/repdem_documents/ADTannouncement.htm

As part of a broad effort to foster stronger youth dialogue on the workings of representative democracy, The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and its Trust for Representative Democracy, with the Alliance for Representative Democracy, is launching a new national public service campaign entitled Am I Missing Something?

The campaign features students tackling misconceptions about representative democracy by enumerating the benefits of participation, illustrating how complex issues require compromise, and discovering why diverse interests all having a voice in the democratic process is important. Am I Missing Something? is part of a larger campaign geared toward engaging the emerging generation in a dialogue about the workings of representative democracy.  

Download the report here.

Campus Compact launched created this multi-faceted initiative to provide our members with tools, resources, and guidance to help educate and empower students and to make the process of staying engaged easier throughout the sometimes confusing election season.