• Norfolk State University:  
  
• Several students will be poll monitors on Election Day.  These students were trained by the AFL-CIO Student Voting Rights Protection Program
• Students created “I vote for a Better Life, Community and World” posters
• Staff members are sending out campus-wide electronic e-Daily updates which include information on the election and voting
• Numerous campus departments are hosting “Election Watch: NSU Style” on Tuesday, November 4 from 6:00 p.m.‐‐11:30 p.m. in the Godwin Student Center Ballroom.  Norfolk State University and the Norfolk State Hampton Roads community members are welcome to actively participate in the event which will feature facilitated informal conversations, access to a global community of election watchers, and a lot of "just plain fun.”

• Radford University:
•  The Student Government Association hosted a student debate. A Political Science professor and her husband moderated the debate and two teams of five students debated the issues.  Audience members received a folder of information about the candidates.  Some professors offered extra credit to their students for attending the debate
•  Students are organizing transportation to the polls

• Germanna Community College:
• Students and Student Activities staff held an Absentee Drive on 10/27
• They also manned a Voter Education table 11am-2pm on 10/30.  At the table, they had a laptop so people could access polling place locations and undecided voters could take the GlassBooth quiz to determine which candidate best addressed their concerns
•  Additionally, they asked students to complete Voting Pledge cards on which students could write down the issues that were most important to them.  The Voting Pledge cards are being mailed to VA Senators
• Obtained $500 worth of coupons from the local Chic-Fil-A, and the coupons will be given to people after they vote.  Chic-Fil-A is also donating sandwiches to GCC’s Election Results Watch Party
• One student painted pumpkins with a local girl scout troop.  The GCC student and the troop talked about the election and voting, and then painted election-related slogans and logos on the pumpkins which were donated by Bloom, a local grocery store.  The girls took the pumpkins home to their parents
•  Posted AIGA Get-Out-the-Vote posters around campus

• D.S. Lancaster Community College:
•  Manned a Voter Education table all last week and provided a variety of non-partisan information
• Found out that students on campus are indifferent to flyers and prefer to actually engage in dialogue about the candidates and issues.  Students want to be active, not passive, participants
• Planned a Mock Debate with the Student Senate.  The Democratic and Republican parties were each represented by one student, and a Social Sciences faculty member moderated the debate
•  Had much success writing letters-to-the-editor to the local paper

• College of William and Mary:
• Working with Student Voting Rights Protection program
•  Planned a local panel focused on service and civic-engagement.  The mayor, a college staff member and a student presented ideas and fielded questions based on how to develop programs and incorporate service into the larger community’s civic engagement plan
•  Planned “demROCKracy,” an Election Day concert featuring some campus bands and speakers addressing the importance of voting.  They created a Facebook Event page to advertise "demROCKracy"
• Coordinating transportation to the polls on Election Day – four student driver
• Obtained voter file from local registrar to do phone banking to remind students to vote

• Mary Baldwin College:
•  Hosted an open discussion about the election and the candidates led by a Political Science professor.  The discussion was attended by on- and off-campus community members
• Organized transportation to the 10/28 Obama rally on JMU’s campus.  The students had great bipartisan conversations about the candidates on the 1.5 hour ride from the rally
• Coordinating vans to the polls on Election Day (polls are 15 miles from campus)
• Hosting an Election Results Watch Party at the campus’s Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement.  Only those who vote are allowed to attend

• Northern Virginia Community College:
• Emailed professors encouraging them to allow students to skip class to vote (or not to penalize students who skip class to vote)
• Hosted an event on Monday with local 9^th District candidates

• Patrick Henry Community College:
•  Hosted Great Debate on 10/29.  There were 12 student debaters (4 Democrats, 4 Republicans, 2 Green, 2 Undecided), and a law professor moderated the event. The event was covered in the Martinsville Bulletin (http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/article.cfm?ID=16331).  The mayor also attended the event, and after the debate they held a mock election.  The event was advertised on the online campus calendar
• Organizing transportation to the polls.  They will either use college buses or student cars
• One student is volunteering as a poll worker.  This same student has decided to take a minor in Political Science as a result of the voter engagement efforts

• James Madison University:
• Hosted and created the “Harrisonburg Candidate’s Forum” which aimed to inform students about the non-presidential candidates that will be on the ballot.  The forum was geared toward JMU and college students, forcing the candidates to think about how they want to better connect with the university student body.  Advertised the event via flyers, banners in high visibility spots on campus, and created a Facebook Event page
• Organizing transportation to the polls on Election Day.  They’ll be using JMU shuttles

Keys to Success (strategies you have mentioned that are worked for you):

• Collaborative efforts:  students and staff working together, various organizations working together
• Targeting your efforts to meet the needs and time frames of students on your campus
• Local community involvement:  debates with local politicians, donations from local stores, education program with community’s younger youth