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SJSU ranked for engaged voters By Sofia Hill
The second requirement involvement and democratic Currin-Percival said that was for campuses to share engagement to ALL IN. SJSU met the final requirements information from SJSU’s 2022 “This plan included civic in September of 2024, after Last month, San José State National Study of Learning, engagement efforts on campus, getting SJSU President Cynthia University was recognized by Voting, and Engagement as reported by the SCVEA Teniente-Matson to successfully the ALL IN Campus Democracy (NSLVE) Reports. Committee (Student Civic sign the commitment. Challenge as one of the Most Currin-Percival said she and Voter Empowerment “It is an honor to achieve this Engaged Campuses for College shared SJSU’s 2022 NSLVE Action Plan), as well as voting and I know we are all proud of Student Voting of 2024, report with ALL IN, which engagement plans for 2024- the work we did to earn this. It according to a post on SJSU’s fulfilled the second requirement. 2026. It also summarized the is accurate to say that SJSU is a Instagram page. According to the 2022 extensive voter registration, Most Engaged Campus and we Colleges and universities NSLVE, SJSU had a higher mobilization, and education look forward to can be get recognized with voting rate than the average of efforts in fall 2024 led primarily continuing this effort in the this title by making deliberate all institutions in 2018, 2020 and by SJSU Votes and the amazing future,” Currin-Percival said. nonpartisan endeavors to 2022. grow the number of students voting and increase political engagement on their campuses, according to the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge’s webpage. Dr. Mary Currin-Percival, Ph.D., a political science professor at SJSU, worked directly on the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge and wrote the report for SJSU in an effort to get the school to gain this recognition. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge webpage states that colleges and Audreena Javid universities must also take Third-year SJSU business management student four actions to meet ALL IN’s recognition criteria. The first action to gain recognition is for a campus to join the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. Currin-Percival said she’s students working on the SJSU Audreena Javid a third-year “I enrolled SJSU in the ALL eager to see the data that comes Votes initiative,” Currin- business management student IN Challenge and, through out of the 2024 NSLVE. Percival said. who is on SJSU’s mock trial my role as the Campus Civic In 2020 during the last The fourth and final executive board. and Voter Empowerment presidential election, SJSU’s requirement was for campuses “As somebody who is Coordinator (CVEC) and the voting rate was 76% compared to get the signatures of their interested in law I think it is a Director of SJSU Votes, helped to the 66% institutional average presidents on ALL IN’s really good thing that younger to organize efforts to meet the according to the 2022 NSLVE. Higher Education Presidents’ generations are becoming more ALL In Campus Democracy The third action to be Commitment to Full Student involved in politics and that Challenge,” Currin-Percival taken was to create and turn Voter Participation to complete Gen Z in general is making the said. in a plan of nonpartisan voter the criteria and gain recognition. effort to show up and turn out,”
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It was so great to see that so many people showed up to vote on campus despite the time that it took because it showed that people truly cared about their vote and this democracy. I think it’s very well deserved.
Javid said. In 2020, according to the NSLVE, it said that 76% out of the 33,611 students enrolled at SJSU cast a vote. According to this data, this means that around 25,544 SJSU students voted that year. “It was so great to see that so many people showed up to vote on campus despite the time that it took because it showed that people truly cared about their vote and this democracy. I think it’s very well deserved,” Javid said. Melinda Jackson, a political science professor at SJSU for nearly 20 years, said that this is the most involvement she’s ever seen. “The Most Engaged Campus designation from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is a well-deserved recognition of our commitment to democratic participation at SJSU,” Jackson said. In 2022, SJSU’s voting rate was 35% compared to the institutional average of 30.6%, with the lowest campuses having a voting rate of 4%, according to the NSLVE. “As a campus community, we come from a wide range of backgrounds, life experiences, and political perspectives, but learning how to talk and listen to each other with patience and respect is one of the most important aspects of our educational mission,” said Jackson. Follow Sofia on Instagram @sofiafromvenus