“State of the Student Vote” research conference

April 27, 2022

The 2022 State of the Student Vote Workshop: At this event, practitioners and scholars summarized field-wide progress towards 100% student voter participation and prioritized specific field-wide investments for the 2022 election cycle. 

The workshop built on findings from a similar 2018 workshop hosted at MIT by Edie Goldenberg, assess progress made in the last four year, and solicit new research from participating scholars.

Presentations were made by students from the Campus Vote Project Research Collective, from practitioners, and from five pairs of scholars. At the workshop, speed presentations from each group then led into themed breakout sessions to build networks and catalyze new research projects for the ‘22 - ‘23 academic year.

• Riley McKinzie, Marissa Farmer and Eugenia Gabrielle Agobe

  • Motivators and barriers to student voting at the University of Florida and the University of Texas, Austin

• Sam Novey and Jen Domagal-Goldman

  • What researchers need to know about data platforms related to student voting

• Kelly Beadle, CIRCLE

  • Overview of youth research convening and IVR

• Christopher Mann and Lisa Bryant

  • In work with civic organizations and local election officials seeking to register and mobilize student voters, we study what works, what doesn’t and what we don’t know yet

• Lia Merivaki and Mara Suttman-Lea

  • Our research places voter education at the heart of voter behavior, and identifies effective ways for election officials to reach new and existing voters

• Jake Grumbach and Charlotte Hill

  • Attacks on democratic institutions stem in part from fear of a rising generation of diverse, politically engaged young people--but if young people can organize, they can protect and expand American democracy)

• Phoebe Henninger and Logan Woods

  • We evaluate Dinners for Democracy, a student-led nonpartisan program at the University of Michigan with three goals: to increase students' knowledge about issues they care about, to make the connections between those issues and down-ballot voting, and to help them understand the mechanics of the voting process

• Teri Platt and Dylan Sellers

  • Our work explores strategies and opportunities for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to continue to build on a rich legacy of student voter participation