March 26, 2025
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Model for Civic Engagement

Wittenberg Designated a Voter-Friendly Campus by NASPA and Campus Vote Project

Wittenberg University has been named a Voter Friendly Campus, one of 272 campuses in 39 states and the District of Columbia, by 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 colleges and universities’ efforts to help students overcome barriers to participating in the political process – every year, not just during years featuring federal elections. Wittenberg was evaluated based on a written plan for how it sought to register, educate, and turnout student voters in 2024, and for how it facilitated voter engagement across the campus. A final analysis of those efforts was also taken into consideration.

Wittenberg students in the Campaigns and Elections course worked at the polls, knocked on doors, posted on social media, organized voter registration drives, and engaged with the community. They also organized a lunch to explore the Lutheran church’s position on civic engagement. Numerous other events sought to educate students and the public about elections.
Professor of Political Science Staci Rhine

Wittenberg has made intensive efforts to inform students of their civic duty and prepare them to be engaged participants in democracy. The University will continue to refine its tactics, expand its efforts, and engage 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.

Political Science at Wittenberg
With a political science degree from Wittenberg, students will find success in a variety of settings — in the public and private sectors, higher education and beyond — by developing skills in critical thinking, written communication and data analysis, all in the context of appreciating the key role that politics plays in human interactions from the local to the global level.
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About Wittenberg

Wittenberg's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, Wittenberg has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, Wittenberg offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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