Columbus State again designated a Voter-Friendly Campus

Student News | Monday, March 31, 2025

For the third consecutive year, Columbus State has been named a Voter-Friendly Campus, one of 272 campuses in 39 states and the District of Columbia, by the Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The initiative recognizes institutions that have planned and implemented practices that encourage their students to register and vote.

The mission of the 2025 Voter Friendly Campus designation is to bolster college and university efforts to help students overcome barriers to participating in the political process – every year, not just during years featuring federal elections. Columbus State was evaluated based on a written plan for how it planned to register, educate, and turn out student voters in 2024, how it facilitated voter engagement efforts on campus, and a final analysis of its efforts.

Columbus State has made intensive efforts to inform students of their civic duty and prepare them to be engaged participants in our democracy. The college is eager to continue refining its tactics, expanding its efforts, and engaging students through 2025 and beyond.

The institutions designated Voter-Friendly Campuses represent a wide range of two-year, four-year, public, private, rural, and urban campuses, collectively serving over four million students. Notably, the list of designated institutions includes 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as well as 47 community colleges.

NASPA is the leading association for the advancement, health, and sustainability of the student affairs profession. It’s work provides high-quality professional development, advocacy, and research for 15,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries, and eight U.S. territories.

Fair Elections Center is a non-partisan organization dedicated to safeguarding the future of our democracy through innovative efforts focused on voting rights and civic engagement. We use advocacy, litigation, organizing, education, and technology to protect and expand the right to vote, understanding the particular impact on disenfranchised, underrepresented, and marginalized communities. Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting and helps campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote.

 

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