Inside Higher Ed cites various ways IDHE helps promote political engagement on college campus, particularly its NSLVE data and a new report with recommendations for institutions.
An interview with Nancy Thomas, Director of our Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, about our newest report on how colleges can facilitate political learning and engagement.
Research conducted by Tisch College's Institute for Democracy & Higher Education is shaping universities' efforts to improve political engagement on their campuses.
Voting participation among Yale students rose from 32.7 percent in the 2012 presidential election to 56.7 percent in 2016, according to a report from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, or the NSLVE.
Nancy Thomas, director of Tisch’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, discusses how recent student activism could have an effect on American politics.
Thanks to the groundbreaking study of voting rates on college campuses, conducted by Tisch College's IDHE, institutions are expanding their efforts to politically engage students.
“We’ve been so scared of appearing partisan or political that we’re really not educating for democracy,” says Nancy Thomas, director of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, at Tufts University.
For the past three years the NSLVE, a program run by Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, has given institutions a baseline measure of how many students are voting