Five City Colleges Recognized for Excellence in Student Voter Registration and Turnout During the 2022 Midterm Elections

ALL IN Awards Day honored Harold Washington College, Harry S Truman College, Kennedy-King College, Olive-Harvey College, and Richard J. Daley College for excellence in nonpartisan student voter engagement and campus turnout in the 2022 Midterm Elections

Washington, DC: Today, the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) recognized Harold Washington College, Harry S Truman College, Kennedy-King College, Olive-Harvey College, and Richard J. Daley College for nonpartisan democratic engagement efforts that fostered high levels of student voter engagement in the 2022 midterm elections. Each college received the Bronze Seal, reflecting a commitment to ensuring that nonpartisan democratic engagement is a defining feature of campus life.

Daley College additionally earned the honor of 2022 Chicago Campus Voting Challenge’s Highest Voting Rate for Community Colleges while Olive-Harvey College earned Chicago Campus Highest Voter Registration Rate for community colleges.

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge empowers colleges and universities to achieve excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement. The five City Colleges recipients were recognized alongside more than 500 campuses using data from the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) out of Tufts University, which found that colleges and universities had the second-highest voter turnout among students in a midterm election since NSLVE began measuring this data. The full list of campus award winners can be viewed here. 

About ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge:
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) is a national nonpartisan initiative of Civic Nation, a 501(c)(3) organization. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge strives to change civic culture and institutionalize democratic engagement activities and programs on college campuses, making voter participation a defining feature of campus life.

ALL IN, in collaboration with over 1,050 higher education institutions, seeks to make participation in local, state, and federal elections a social norm; substantially increase the number of college students who are democratically engaged on an ongoing basis, during and between elections, and not just at the polls, and; make educating for democratic engagement on college campuses an accepted and expected part of the culture and curriculum so that students graduate with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and values needed to be an informed and active citizen.