The American Council on Education, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities have joined with 46 other higher education associations to sponsor the National Campus Voter Registration Project. The project's aim is to encourage and support campus-based activities that promote voter awareness, civic involvement and student participation in the electoral process.
"One of the most basic responsibilities of our institutions of higher education is to educate and motivate good citizenship," says David L. Warren, President of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and co-chairman of the project.
The effort will reach out to all public and private college and university presidents, encouraging them to encourage their faculty, staff and students to discuss the issues and candidates of this election cycle. In January, the consortium mailed handbooks for organizing campus voter registration activities to all college presidents.
For a complete list of coalition members visit the American Association of Community Colleges Web site at www.aacc.nche.edu/leg/yvyv/yvyv3.htm.
For more information, contact either Deno Curris of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities at (202) 293-7070.
— Compiled by Eric St. John
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