The Ask Every Student Toolkit
How to use this Toolkit
The Ask Every Student Toolkit is a comprehensive and growing resource of strategies, tools, and tactics that are designed to assist campus leaders in implementing full student voter registration strategies on their campuses.
The Toolkit is developed using a human-centered design process in collaboration with the Ask Every Student Codesigner Cohort, a diverse and deliberately selected group of leaders from 20 campuses across the country.
As shown on this page, the Toolkit is broken into six sections: academic integration, student life integration, student leadership opportunities, institutional partnerships, human-centered design, and engagement resources.
These categories reflect the insights expressed by staff, faculty, and student leaders about what they need in order to successfully “ask every student” on their campus to participate in our democracy.
Presentation by SLSV Coalition Resources & Campus Support Manager, Maddie Wolf, about the Ask Every Student Toolkit.
Learn how to apply these tools to your context with the First Step Form!
Figure out the best way that you can use this Toolkit to ask every student on your campus by filling out the First Step Form! After filling out the form, you’ll automatically receive an email response with your answers to help you apply these tools to your context.
Strategic Approaches to Ask Every Student
This is where you can identify the partners, processes, and strategic direction you want to take in order to actually ask every student on your campus to participate in our democracy.
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Academic Integration
Work with faculty to integrate civic engagement into their classroom and prepare students to participate in the democratic process. You can also include nonpartisan voter registration in the course registration process.
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Student Life Integration
Support students’ participation in the democratic process by integrating voter registration into processes like orientation, welcome week, bus/parking pass pickup, and other student programming.
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Student Leadership Opportunities
Recruit and train students to be leaders and ambassadors of your voting initiative, by way of federal work study positions, fellowship programs, and incentivized volunteer ambassadorships.
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Institutional Partnerships
Gain commitment from senior leadership, develop strategic institutional partnerships with offices like the registrar, and develop campus voting coalitions to advance equity.
Elevate your work with these resources
These resources provide inclusive, meaningful opportunities to help every student on your campus to make their voice heard.
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Use Human-Centered Design
Nobody knows what students on your campus need more than the students themselves! Apply a human-centered design approach to this work to identify the tactics that students will respond best to.
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Engagement Resources
These resources can help you execute inclusive, meaningful, and engaging experiences for students to participate in the democratic process.
Learn from the campuses leading the work.
We know there is no resource more valuable than examples of the innovative strategies, tactics, and resources that campus leaders on the ground develop for their specific campus context. The Ask Every Student playbook is an evolving blog that highlights and uplifts the work happening on campuses across the country.
