College developed a nonpartisan democratic engagement action plan for 2024 election cycle
Inver Hills Community College has earned the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Highly Established Action Plan Seal for the 2024 election cycle. The college developed a nonpartisan democratic engagement action plan that received 33 of 36 possible points based on the Strengthening American Democracy Action Planning Guide (SADG) Rubric.
According to the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, “Democratic engagement is the state of being engaged in advancing democracy through political institutions, organizations, and activities— it is the engagement of citizens in public life and in government. Examples of democratic engagement include voting, contacting elected officials, being active in political organizations, debating issues, supporting causes, and participating in rallies.
“The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is proud to recognize the colleges and universities that have earned the Highly Established Action Plan Seal of recognition. ALL IN has developed this seal of recognition for higher education institutions with strong action plans to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement by promoting civic learning, political engagement, and college student voter participation.”
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ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
Jennifer M. Domagal-Goldman, PhD, ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge executive director, reported that Inver Hills is one of 192 campuses that has earned this recognition so far for the 2024 election cycle.
“Thank you for your continued work to institutionalize and increase nonpartisan democratic engagement and for developing such a strong action plan,” Dr. Domagal-Goldman said.
Shannon Williams serves as the community based learning coordinator at Inver Hills. Shannon worked with students, faculty, and staff as part of our campus voting coalition to develop the award-winning plan.
“I am proud of the campus voting coalition that we have built over the past several years,” Shannon said. “As a result of their efforts, Inver Hills has become a national leader in nonpartisan democratic engagement. Membership in the campus voting coalition is open to all students, faculty, staff and administrators, and we’d welcome new members this fall.”
Photo above right: Voting Ambassador Kits: Students assembled kits for the 12 students who served as student voting ambassadors ahead of the 2022 election. Student voting ambassadors spent more than 200 hours doing peer-to-peer voter outreach.
Click image below to view the Inver Hills Civic Action Plan 2024:
Learn more about Community-Based Learning at Inver Hills by contacting:
Career Development & Community-Based Learning
Inver Hills Community College
College Center Top Floor
651-450-3683
careerdevelopment@inverhills.edu
