HARRISONBURG, Va. (ROCKTOWN NOW) – James Madison University recently earned the Highly Established Action Plan Seal for the 2024 election cycle from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge.

JMU is one of only five public four-year universities in Virginia to receive this recognition and Deputy Spokesman Chad Saylor says campuses must meet a high threshold for this honor.

“Campuses have to meet a high threshold for this honor: making a sustained, year-round commitment to civic engagement; embedding engagement in curriculum; ensuring that every student is asked to register and prepared to vote; and that the institution and its leadership is committed to a culture of student voting and civic engagement,” Kara Dillard, executive director for JMU’s Madison Center for Civic Engagement, said in a news release. 

Saylor added that the 2024 action plan goals include increasing voter registration and election turnout as well as building faculty relationships.