Ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election on Nov. 5, Ringling College of Art and Design has been recognized for its commitment to democratic engagement by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. Ringling College is one of 192 colleges and universities throughout the country that have earned the Highly Established Action Plan Seal for the 2024 election cycle by ALL IN, a national program that encourages civic learning and student voter participation.
In order to earn this recognition, colleges must have implemented a nonpartisan democratic engagement action plan that received at least 31.5 of 36 possible points through ALL IN’s Strengthening American Democracy Action Planning Guide (SADG) Rubric.
According to its website, the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge “encourages higher education institutions to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship, make democratic participation a core value on their campus, and cultivate generations of engaged citizens who are essential to a healthy democracy.”
ALL IN was founded in 2016 in response to increasingly lower rates of young adult voters during national elections, especially midterms. The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) found that only 20% of young adults ages 18-29 and 19% of college students voted in the 2014 midterm election.
More than 1,000 colleges and universities have signed up for the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge since its inception.
