At the 2019 ALL IN Challenge Awards Ceremony, held to recognize colleges and universities committed to increasing college student voting rates, Linfield College received a platinum seal for achieving a student voter turnout rate of more than 50 percent. A full list of seal awardees can be viewed here.
“Linfield College is proud to receive this national recognition for our efforts. At Linfield, students are engaged both in and out of the classroom,” said Jeff Mackay, Linfield dean of students. “The faculty and staff at Linfield work hard to graduate civic-minded students who are prepared to solve the country’s, and the world’s, most pressing challenges.”
Student participation in elections has increased from the 2014 midterm election to the recent 2018 midterm election. According to the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, an initiative of Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, voter turnout at the more than 1,000 institutions participating in the study increased by 21 points from 19 percent to 40 percent. Linfield’s student voter turnout exceeded 50 percent.
“We are excited to honor Linfield College with an ALL IN Challenge platinum seal in recognition of their intentional efforts to increase democratic engagement and full voter participation,” said Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, executive director of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. “More institutions like Linfield College are changing culture on campus by institutionalizing nonpartisan democratic engagement efforts that are resulting in the incredible student voter turnout rates that we’ve seen across the country.”
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is a nonpartisan, national initiative recognizing and supporting campuses as they work to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement and full student voter participation. The challenge encourages higher education institutions to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship, and make democratic participation a core value on their campus.
More than 560 campuses, enrolling more than 6.2 million students, have joined the challenge since its launch in 2016.
