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Higher ed has an important role to play in addressing the most important issue of our time: the attack on voting rights, William G. Tierney writes.
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Sep 15, 2021
College students in Texas will face stricter registration and voting rules when casting ballots on campus.
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Colleges should combat efforts to disenfranchise voters (opinion)
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How college leaders can help restore civil discourse after the election (opinion)
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Colleges must support students in the wake of the election (opinion)
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A historian describes how Joe Biden was a regular, not radical, student of the 1960s (opinion)
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September 15, 2021
College students in Texas will face stricter registration and voting rules when casting ballots on campus.
August 27, 2021
Youth voting soared in 2020. Can student groups and civic organizations keep the momentum going for this year’s state and local contests?
June 21, 2021
The Senate is expected to take up the House-passed bill, which would standardize federal elections across the country -- making voting easier for college students.
April 13, 2021
Whatever our political allegiances, it is our duty as college and university leaders to combat shameful attempts to disenfranchise significant numbers of people, writes Michael S. Roth.
November 3, 2020
Katherine A. Rowe and A. Benjamin Spencer discuss how college leaders can help restore civil discourse after the election.
October 29, 2020
This year’s election promises to be unlike any other in modern memory, so we must support students and help channel their feelings into meaningful action, writes Anthony W. Crowell.
October 28, 2020
Historian John R. Thelin returns to the ’60s, when Biden -- along with the majority of his classmates -- was regular, not radical.
October 22, 2020
Student government leaders and national get-out-the-vote organizations say classes on Election Day are barriers to voting. They want a designated holiday instead and classes replaced with voter engagement efforts.
August 19, 2020
While colleges must avoid partisanship, they should do everything they can to ensure that students get all the information they need to participate in the upcoming election, writes Gary Orfield.