ECU designated as a 'Voter-Friendly Campus'

ECU was designated today as a “Voter-Friendly Campus.”
The initiative, led by national nonpartisan organizations Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, held participating institutions accountable for planning and implementing practices that encourage their students to register and vote in the 2018 elections and in the coming years.
The mission of the Voter Friendly Campus designation is to bolster efforts that help students overcome barriers to participating in the political process.
“All of us are members of our democracy. To make democracy work, everyone needs to participate, everyone needs to be informed, everyone needs to be engaged,” said Dennis McCunney, director of intercultural affairs at ECU.
ECU was evaluated based on a campus plan about how the university would engage student voters in 2018 and facilitate democratic engagement efforts on campus, as well as a final analysis of those efforts. The designation is valid through December 2020.
“The Voter Friendly Campus designation recognizes our efforts at ECU to encourage students to be informed and active voters, and that ECU is a place where active citizenship is encouraged and expected,” McCunney said.
The institutions designated Voter Friendly Campuses represent a wide range of two-year, four-year, public, private, rural and urban campuses.
 
-by ECU News Services