IDHE In the News

Nancy Thomas describes the campus environments to eschew, as well as those to nourish, in order to encourage free expression, inclusion and learning.

This special report profiles the work of Tisch College's Nancy Thomas and references Tufts research on youth voter trends.

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

“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.

The impact of young voters is rising in the U.S. Conducted by the NSLVE almost 10,000 students from over 1,000 institutions across all 50 states were used to evaluate how students vote

New research out of Tufts University's Institute for Democracy & Higher Education paints a much more encouraging picture.

On Pitt’s campus, Nov. 9 was a day of mourning for many. Thousands of college students had walked into the polls for the first time the day before, finally old enough to cast their votes for the next president of the United States.

PSA to politicians on the ballot in 2018 and beyond: College students are reared up and ready to vote.

From 2012 to 2016, voter turnout for Tufts students in national presidential elections increased by 12 percentage points, from 51.2 percent to 63.2 percent, according to aNational Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE)