Student-led efforts at Tusculum University to promote voter registration and casting a ballot have yielded honors from a national organization.
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge has selected Tusculum for its inaugural Most Engaged Campuses for College Student Voting recognition. Tusculum was one of only five higher education institutions in Tennessee and one of 394 nationwide to earn this designation for making intentional efforts increase student voter participation.
Tusculum was also one of 184 campuses in the United States to participate in the Ask Every Student Initiative, which encourages engagement in the democratic process and achievement of full student voter registration.
In addition, ALL IN has issued Tusculum a bronze seal for having a student voting rate between 50 percent and 59 percent in the 2020 elections. Tusculum was one of only three Tennessee higher education institutions and 88 across the country to achieve this level.
ALL IN fosters civic culture and institutionalizes democratic engagement activities and programs at colleges and universities. The organization seeks an electorate that reflects the nation’s makeup and in which college students are democratically engaged on an ongoing basis, during and between elections, and not just at the polls.
