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Empowering Student Engagement: A Journey from Awareness to Action in Civic Participation

This initiative, PowerVote, mobilized students to collect signatures, register new voters, and educate peers on key electoral issues. Through three faculty panels and collaborative presentations, we achieved significant results: 814 PowerVote signatures collected and 1,065 new voter registrations from a student body of approximately 5,000 undergraduates, with 680 of 720 on-campus registrants voting. Students expressed newfound empowerment and awareness of their impact on community engagement. This program emphasized the importance of civic involvement and built on existing student activism for greater electoral participation.

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Empowering Student Engagement: A Journey from Awareness to Action in Civic Participation

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  1. PowerVote Campaign • Collect PowerVote signatures • Register new voters • Educate students about key elections issues • 3 faculty panels • PowerVote/Coal presentation • Increase voter turnout on Election Day

  2. PowerVote Results • 814 PowerVote signatures • 1065 new registrations (c. 5000 undergrads) • 680 of 720 on-campus registrants voted

  3. Student Reflections on Engagement • CC: “The most important thing that I will take away from this class is a sense of empowerment. Prior to enrolling in this course, I felt overwhelmed and helpless in terms of saving our environment. I am walking away with the knowledge that my actions can make a difference, and these actions do not have to be drastically life-altering.”

  4. More Student Reflections • LR:“The biggest thing I will take from this course is the complete 180 switch my perspective has changed on what it takes to get involved.” • AC:“Before this class I didn’t truly know the power students had, when they joined together. I had never really paid attention to things like that before. I would love to continue being informed and involved.”

  5. More Student Reflections • RQ:“The group projects we did in class allowed us to take action right here with the community.… While I can only speak for myself, I feel that many of my peers will get more than just a letter grade out of the class. We will be equipped with the tools to be active citizens and civically involved.”

  6. Beyond AMST 399: Spring 2009 • Earth Week 2009 • 30% organized or helped organize events • 50% actively participated in events • More than 75% attended events

  7. Some Conclusions • Build on existing student activism and interests • Link politics, civic engagement and activism to personally meaningful topics • Capitalize on students’ social networks and networking skills • Encourage reflection on and sharing & documentation of events • Model activism and engagement yourself

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