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Democracy Despite Disruption: Improving Student Voter Engagement through Pedagogy

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Slides and webinar recording will be posted online: www.aacu.org/webinars/democracydespitedisruption BRIDGET G. TROGDEN Associate Dean Associate Professor of Engineering & Science Education Clemson University Democracy Despite Disruption: Improving Student Voter Engagement through Pedagogy Moderator

Bridget G. Trogden Arielle M. del Rosario Anne Kruchten Associate Dean Assistant Director Director of Associate Professor of Project Pericles, Inc Assessment and Engineering & Science Associate Professor of Education Biology Clemson University The College of St. Scholastica

Allison Rank Jabari Bodrick Sean Crossland Assistant Professor of Associate Director Director Political Science Leadership and Thayne Center for SUNY Oswego Service Center Service & Learning University of South Salt Lake Community Carolina College

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 We have two poll questions for webinar attendees  Go to www.menti.com and use the code 51 90 43 Overview: Why seek to improve student voter engagement through pedagogy? (Bridget Trogden) @BTrog #AACUfaculty Civic Definitions: engagement • A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future – link • ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge – link Democratic • NASPA Voter Friendly Campus - link engagement

1. Registration Voter 2. Education engagement 3. Turnout (NSLVE – link) Nationally, students in some fields (such as STEM fields) are less likely than their peers to vote. How can we do better? ARIELLE M. DEL ROSARIO Assistant Director Project Pericles, Inc Project Pericles @ArielleDel (Arielle del Rosario) #AACUfaculty

Periclean Colleges and Universities • • • Bethune-Cookman University • • • Elon University • The Evergreen State College• • • • • New England College The New School • • Pace University • • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • • • • Wagner College • Widener University • The

Project Pericles appreciates the generous support of: The Eugene M. Lang Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Students Learn Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition, Up to Us, among others. @ArielleDel #AACUfaculty Project Pericles Voting Modules  The Voting Modules are a set of curricular resources for faculty across all disciplines to incorporate nonpartisan voter education and deliberative dialogue discussion into their courses.

 Spring 2020 Pilot: “Up to Us” Voting Modules Mini-Grants Snapshot of Faculty Awardees in STEM and Social Sciences:

 Carleton College: Debby Walser-Kuntz Course: Virology (Biology) Topic: Rising Healthcare Costs

 Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School: Anne Yust Course: (Un)Fair Representation: Gerrymandering & The Political Process (Quantitative Methods) Topic: Hyperpartisanship

 Rhodes College: Steven Ceccoli Course: Research Methods (Social Sciences) Topic: National Debt

 Wagner College: Bernadette Ludwig and Alexa Dietrich Voting Modules available free: Course: Medical Anthropology https://www.projectpericles.org Topic: Rising Healthcare Costs /voting-modules ANNE KRUCHTEN Director of Assessment and Associate Professor of Biology The College of St. Scholastica Voter Education in Biology: The College of St. Scholastica (Anne Kruchten) My course is I don’t want to content driven – use my authority I’m a scientist, Do these quotes to influence not an activist voter education sound familiar? does not ”fit” students’ political beliefs

 Engage students in voter education through an information literacy assignment – reinforce real world applications of your content.

 Work with librarians to help students find, evaluate, and apply information

 Example: students gather information about candidate views of climate change and energy policy in a first-year biology course

 Practice skills already developed in the course

 Use non-partisan websites to gather candidate/official information

 Students search for candidates views on course content

 Example assignment link

 Be sure to steer students towards on-campus voter registration efforts ALLISON RANK Assistant Professor of Political Science SUNY Oswego Sdf Curricular Potential of Campaigns (Allison Rank) @AD_Rank  Vote Oswego: Curricular-based voter mobilization program #AACUfaculty  Grassroots Team: 3-credit hour class in Political Science  Creative Team: 3-credit hour class in Graphic Design  Associated Internships

 Votes & Ballots (collaboration w/Democracy Works)  Votes & Ballots Original Version (Campaign Planning)  Votes & Ballots: Curricular Edition (Classroom Simulation)

 Incorporate data about youth and politics into conversations/lectures by drawing on data from NSLVE and CIRCLE JABARI BODRICK Associate Director Leadership and Service Center University of South Carolina Co-Curricular Engagement University of South Carolina (Jabari Bodrick) @JabariBodrick #AACUfaculty  Congress to Campus

 Civility Series

 Diversity in Politics Series

 Deliberative Dialogues

 Nonpartisan Films

 National Voter Registration Day/Voter Registration Drives

 Civic Engagement Fair Sean Crossland Director Thayne Center for Service & Learning Salt Lake Community College (Sean Crossland) @SeanPCrossland #AACUfaculty

 College-wide Civic Action Plan

 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement

 2020 Voter Engagement

 Student Leaders in Civic Engagement (SLiCE)

 Campus elections, shared governance

 Student Media Center: the Globe, Radio SLCC, Student Television Use Q&A for: Panel discussion

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