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SHU’s ‘UNITING HEARTS’ INITIATIVE LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE AND EMPOWER STUDENT VOTERS
Sacred Heart University News
(2022)
Abstract
In an effort to encourage voter registration among college students and help voters at Sacred Heart University (SHU) participate in their democracy with confidence, SHU’s Uniting Hearts Initiative is collaborating with multiple on-campus organizations/departments and community partners to launch a campus-wide nonpartisan campaign to equip the SHU community with all of the information they need to be informed, confident, prepared, and engaged voters. The campaign, Uniting Hearts: Empowering the SHUdent Vote, is spearheaded by students in Mark Congdon Jr.’s advertising and campaigns service-learning course. The students are collaborating with SHU’s Multicultural Center, Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter, School of Communication, Media and the Arts(SCMA), Office of Volunteer Programs & Service Learning (OVPSL) and the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies(WGSS) program, as well as the town of Fairfield’s Registrar of Voters and the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Fairfield for the campaign. The campaign will include various educational opportunities, interactive events, and voter registration drives throughout the month of October and November on campus, to encourage democratic engagement on campus. The goal is to help students understand why their vote matters, encourage them to establish a voter identity, and create a habit of voting in every single election, starting with the 2022 Midterms Elections.
Keywords
- Uniting Hearts,
- civic engagement,
- student voting,
- service-learning,
- higher education,
- public relations education,
- social justice
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall October 12, 2022
Citation Information
"SHU’s ‘UNITING HEARTS’ INITIATIVE LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE AND EMPOWER STUDENT VOTERS" Sacred Heart University News (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark-congdon/31/