Thanks to its outstanding efforts to increase nonpartisan student voter participation, Temple has been named a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting.
It is one of 471 colleges and universities recognized by ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, a nonprofit that empowers excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement at higher education institutions. To earn this honor, these institutions completed four core actions.
- Participated in the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
- Shared 2022 NSLVE reports with campus voting data with ALL IN
- Developed and submitted a 2024 democratic engagement action plan with ALL IN
- Had a current signatory to ALL IN’s Higher Education Presidents’ Commitment to Full Student Voter Participation
“Receiving the acknowledgement as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting is a point of pride for Temple,” said Deanne DeCrescenzo, associate dean of students. “This serves as recognition of the university’s efforts and commitment to civic engagement and nonpartisan voter mobilization.”
Temple, along with the other institutions awarded this honor, worked diligently to engage students in the election.
“The research is clear: Colleges and universities that make intentional efforts to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement have higher campus voter registration and voter turnout rates. This year we saw more colleges than ever before step up their efforts to ensure that their students were registered and ready to make their voices heard at the ballot box,” said Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, executive director of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. “These Most Engaged Campuses are setting the standard for nonpartisan civic engagement work for colleges and universities across the country.”
Temple Votes—a nonpartisan coalition of students, faculty and staff—led initiatives throughout the 2024 election season to help students get informed, mobilized and registered to vote. Its programming included a presidential debate watch party in addition to various tabling events, workshops, presentations and discussions hosted by faculty, staff and voter education organizations.
Additionally, the coalition hired students as Temple Votes ambassadors who helped engage their peers around voter mobilization efforts.
Temple Votes also disseminated videos and guides to explain the democratic process and how to vote and volunteer at the polls. Additionally, it communicated important deadlines to register to vote and request absentee or mail-in ballots across university channels such as email and social media.
On Election Day, the group led Parade to the Polls, walking students to their respective polling locations from residence halls including White, Johnson and Hardwick, 1940, Morgan, 1300, and Temple Towers.
Post-election, Temple Votes shared resources and tools to navigate the results and encourage continued democratic engagement.
Temple Votes was also awarded the Highly Established Action Plan Seal by ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge in 2024 for its strong plans to foster civic learning, political engagement and student voter participation. Temple has been designated a Voter Friendly Campus by NASPA and the Campus Vote Project as well.
“We are particularly proud of our students, many of whom were voting in their first presidential election, for engaging in the democratic process,” said DeCrescenzo. “We look forward to continuing this important work and seeing our students’ sustained commitment to civic engagement.”