Chatham Receives Gold Recognition from ALL IN Challenge for Voter Participation

Chatham University has received the Gold Seal of recognition from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) held to recognize student voting rates. Gold Seal campuses must achieve between a 70% and 79% of students voting in the 2020 election in order to be recognized. 

Chatham’s action plan in order to achieve this award was developed by the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics (PCWP). The main goals focused on increasing voter engagement for the 2020 presidential election and beyond by increasing voter registration and driving election day turnouts. With these goals PCWP created the #UseYourVote campaign that displayed an awareness of the democratic process. Chatham’s full action plan, participation in the initiative, and details on the recognition can be found here. 

Student participation in elections has increased from the 2016 presidential election to the recent 2020 presidential election. According to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, an initiative of Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy & Higher Education, voter turnout at the more than 1,200 institutions participating in the study increased by 14 points from 52% to 66%.

The  ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is a nonpartisan, national initiative recognizing and supporting campuses as they work to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement and full student voter participation. ALL IN encourages higher education institutions to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship and make democratic participation a core value on their campus.