Institutional Partnerships
Strategic partnerships make asking every student possible.
In order to ask every student, you will need to partner intentionally with different stakeholders, groups, and leaders across your institution. These partnerships are essential for institutionalizing this work on your campus and ensuring your Ask Every Student strategy is integrated into the operations of your institution. Institutionalization can be reached through creating and sustaining equitable and inclusive campus voting coalitions and having senior leadership actionably commit to full student voter participation.
It also means establishing a meaningful nonpartisan culture around voting that includes non-eligible student voters and ensures students lead the creative direction of the work while receiving institutional support. The work should be able to continue despite turnover between staff and student leaders.
Build institutional partnerships for full participation.
Institutionalize civic engagement by creating and sustaining equitable and inclusive campus voting coalitions and having senior leadership actionably commit to full student voter participation.
Engaging Senior Leadership
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Senior Leadership Commitment
Gain commitment to full student voter participation from your institution’s senior leadership through ALL IN’s Higher Education Presidents’ Commitment to Full Student Voter Participation.
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Administrative Buy-In for Civic Engagement: Why College Leaders Should Champion Civic Engagement on Campus
While many campuses have passionate students and staff leading voting initiatives, long-term success depends on presidents, provosts, vice presidents, and deans elevating civic engagement as an institutional priority. This resource provides a practical, replicable guide to help community colleges engage institutional leaders in civic engagement work.
Coalitions & Cross-Campus Partnerships
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Building Nonpartisan Campus Voting Coalitions for Full Participation
This curriculum includes interactive, collaborative activities to identify and map intentional and equitable partnerships that support all students on campus, with a focus on closing the voting rate gap between white students and students of color.
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Advancing Career Readiness through Nonpartisan Voter Engagement and Career Services Collaboration
This guide highlights a replicable framework for aligning nonpartisan civic engagement with career readiness, through partnership with Career Services and alignment with NACE Career Competencies. It provides institutions with strategies, tools, and examples to demonstrate the professional value of participating in our democracy and to foster stronger collaborations across campus.
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Partnerships Checklist for Voter Registration Integration
Use this checklist to develop relationships with gatekeepers of processes on a campus and create an ask to integrate voter registration into their program.
Connect with Registrars for Civic Engagement
One strategy for contacting every enrolled student on a campus is to work with the Office of the Registrar to identify students. 2022 Codesigner Cohort participants Dr. Teri Platt and Dr. Sabrina Riles from Clark Atlanta University have developed a timeline for aligning course registration and enrollment with voter registration, outlined ways to obtain student/university permission to contact students for voter registration, and highlighted strategies for outreach and data tracking.
2022 Codesigner Cohort participants Dr. Teri Platt and Dr. Sabrina Riles from Clark Atlanta University present their strategic partnerships strategies.