High Point, NC - High Point University was recently named a Voter Friendly Campus by Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. HPU is one of 258 campuses in 38 states and the District of Columbia to be recognized. The initiative recognizes institutions that planned and implemented practices that encouraged their students to register and vote in the 2022 elections and in coming years.

The mission of the 2023 Voter Friendly Campus designation is to bolster colleges and universities’ efforts to help students overcome barriers to participating in the political process every year, not just during years featuring federal elections. HPU was evaluated based on a written plan to register, educate and turnout student voters in 2022, how it facilitated voter engagement efforts on campus, and a final analysis of its efforts.

Being recognized as a Voter Friendly Campus for the second year in a row is exciting, said Grant Hines, a senior journalism major and Broadcast Track Media Fellow.

“The HPU Votes team is rapidly growing, and this designation proves our commitment to get every student on campus registered to vote,” said Hines. “As a God, family, country school we are striving to ensure that everyone in the HPU community is able to exercise their most basic and fundamental right to vote. We are forever grateful to Campus Voter Project for selecting us to be a voter friendly campus and can't wait to work with them in future elections."

The institutions designated Voter Friendly Campuses represent a wide range of two-year, four-year, public, private, rural and urban campuses, collectively serving more than 3.5 million students. The list of designated institutions includes 49 Minority Serving Institutions and 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as well as 41 community colleges.

“We are excited to be recognized as a Voter Friendly Campus and are grateful to our students Grant Hines and Tess Webb who led this initiative under the direction of the Center for Community Engagement,” said Kimberly Drye-Dancy, executive director of the Center for Community Engagement. “Being recognized as a Voter Friendly Campus is important because it shows that the university supports and encourages students to vote. The recognition also demonstrates that faculty, staff, college administrators and student organizations are dedicated to participating in civic and electoral engagement.”