College student voting surged nationwide in 2020, according to a from the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, and 麻豆影视 students were part of the trend.
麻豆影视 students voting rate was 77.7% in 2020, a +19.3 change from 2016. That is well above the national rate for college students, which was 66% in 2020 (compared with 52% in 2016.)
PomonaVotes, a nonpartisan student organization led by Naomi Tilles 鈥22 and Michaela Shelton 鈥21, rallied Pomona students last year to register and get out to vote. This was not an easy task, given Pomona鈥檚 remote instruction at that time due to COVID-19.
In planning their strategy, Shelton and Tilles decided to focus on student-to-student canvassing via text messaging and social media messages, in addition to Zoom events tied to presidential debates.
鈥淧omona students are models for civic engagement as their voting record shows even during a year when they were not on campus,鈥 says Dean of Campus Life Josh Eisenberg, who was involved with the initiative. 鈥淢uch of the credit goes to Michaela Shelton and Naomi Tilles, co-chairs of PomonaVotes and their volunteers.鈥
The report was recently released by the (IDHE), creators of the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, or NSLVE.