Universities are a cornerstone of American democracy. College campuses should bring together people from all backgrounds and affiliations and create opportunities to engage in constructive discourse while learning from and challenging each other in a respectful manner.<\/p>\n
As higher education leaders, it\u2019s our responsibility to ensure the future of a robust democracy by preparing students to become responsible and engaged citizens. That includes exercising their right to vote.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m proud to serve on ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge<\/a>\u2019s 2024 Presidents’ Council to help create a culture of nonpartisan civic engagement and voter participation on all campuses. See all 13 members of the council here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I look forward to working with these leaders to elevate student participation during a critical election year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Universities are a cornerstone of American democracy. College campuses should bring together people from all backgrounds and affiliations and create opportunities to engage in constructive discourse while learning from and challenging each other in a respectful manner. As higher education leaders, it\u2019s our responsibility to ensure the future of a robust democracy by preparing students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":209061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-162_news-faculty-staff-can-use","category-9_news-students-can-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209062,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209060\/revisions\/209062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}