The Department of Education (ED) has a new
resource for campus leaders to help ensure students can access information for
engaging in the electoral process.
The department's student voting toolkit, part
of its work to implement President Biden’s 2021 executive order on
Promoting Access to Voting, aims to provide guidance and strategies to
promote student voter participation.
Another resource for campus leaders continues to
be an updated issue
brief ACE released in October to help colleges and
universities manage their obligations and other matters related to student
voting and understand the rules regarding campus political campaign activities.
The
ACE issue brief suggests steps colleges and universities can take to enable
students to cast their ballots, as well as to fulfill schools’ obligations
under the Higher Education Act. It also emphasizes that institutions should
take care to ensure that the voting resources offered to their students are
nonpartisan and that their communications with students are offered and
received that way.