Johns Hopkins honored for student voter engagement in All-In Campus Democracy Challenge

Johns Hopkins University is one of 471 colleges and universities recognized for its outstanding efforts to increase student voter participation in the 2024 election.

The All-In Campus Democracy Challenge honored JHU based on the universitywide efforts to facilitate nonpartisan voter engagement, including events like Democracy Day, Vote Early Day, and Election Day shuttles organized with Transportation Services. It also celebrates voter participation events organized by Hopkins Votes, a universitywide, nonpartisan initiative run by the Center for Social Concern in Student Affairs.

Popular programming organized by Hopkins Votes and its partners on JHU's campuses this fall included:

• Watch parties for the vice presidential debate and presidential debate
• A celebration on National Voter Registration Day
• A panel discussion titled "Can Young People Save Democracy?" co-hosted by the SNF Agora Institute
• An absentee voter registration party
• A collaboration with the Peabody Institute's In the Stacks concert series celebrating the power of music in democracy
• A march to the polls on Election Day when students walked together to their Baltimore polling place
• And Election Day watch parties held in multiple locations across the Homewood campus.

"We are incredibly grateful and proud of the way the Hopkins community, especially our students, came together and engaged in the process to get educated, registered, and ready to vote," said Luis L. Sierra Moncion, deputy director in the Center for Social Concern and director of Hopkins Votes. "The Center for Social Concern and Hopkins Votes teams are eager to continue working earnestly with our team and partners to ensure that the momentum does not end with this election season, but that our students continue fostering their sense of civic agency. This includes not just preparing to vote in the 2026 midterm elections, but also staying civically engaged at every level between every election cycle, starting with our local communities."

The All-In Campus Democracy Challenge empowers colleges and universities to achieve excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement. Campuses that join the challenge complete a set of action items, with the support of All-In staff, to institutionalize nonpartisan civic learning and voter participation on their campus. The challenge currently engages 10.8 million students from more than 1,075 institutions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

"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," said Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, executive director of the All-In Campus Democracy Challenge. "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. These most engaged campuses are setting the standard for nonpartisan civic engagement work for colleges and universities across the country."

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