Calling All Student Researchers!
The Campus Vote Project Research Collective provides amazing mentorship and support to student researchers. Forward this email to any students and scholars you know who love student voting!
The Campus Vote Project Research Collective is seeking students interested in doing research at the intersection of higher education and civic engagement. We are also seeking faculty and researchers who want to mentor undergraduate and graduate students. Keep reading to learn more and share with anyone you think may be interested in getting involved!
Students (Undergraduate & Graduate) - Join Campus Vote Project Research Collective for our monthly meeting on Wednesday, June 1 at 6pm ET (5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT) to brainstorm potential projects, workshop ongoing individual research, and expand ongoing Research Collective research projects.
Faculty & Researchers - Support our student researchers. If you are interested in potentially mentoring a student whose interests align with your current research, please complete this short form.
Everyone - Join us at the Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting for our workshop - “Creating a Civic Research Community: Supporting and Growing Student ivic Scholars” on Thursday, June 23 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. At this session, you will hear from CVP Research Collective student members who completed their senior theses on student voting, brainstorm new ideas, peer review ongoing research, and discuss best practices in mentoring student scholars.
More about the CVP Research Collective
The CVP Research Collective aims to better understand the experiences of students, faculty, administrators, elections officials, candidates, and outside organizations as they aim to institutionalize civic engagement and political participation at higher education institutions. The CVP Research Collective gathers information that can aid campuses in the process of institutionalizing a culture of 100% student voting. This is all completed with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our specific research focuses include:
Identifying barriers to civic engagement and political participation for marginalized communities
Identifying what institutionalization means on each campus and better understanding why differences exist
Defining what nonpartisanship means for higher education institutions and understanding how that definition impacts support of students’ civic engagement efforts
Better extrapolating the relationship between civic engagement and political participation with standard measurements of student success
Identifying the roles of different actors on campuses and providing informed recommendations on how they can be better supported or incorporated into the political process
You can visit our website to learn more about some of our scholars and find more ways to be involved: https://www.campusvoteproject.org/researchcollective.
Kassie Phebillo (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, studying Political Communication, and the Curriculum & Research Manager at Campus Vote Project, where she oversees the CVP Research Collective. Her research agenda focuses on the intersections of higher education, civic engagement, and communication. Her dissertation explores if and how college faculty in Texas disclose their political beliefs in the classroom and how that may impact overall political discussion on college campuses. Prior to her work at Campus Vote Project, she served for six years as the TX Votes Program Coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin, which received numerous national accolades for improving political participation rates at UT.
queen Kassie !