American Democracy Project

The American Democracy Project (ADP) is a network of more than 250 state colleges and universities focused on public higher education’s role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens for our democracy. ADP was established in 2003 as a nonpartisan initiative of AASCU in partnership with The New York Times.

The goal of the American Democracy Project is to produce college and university graduates who are equipped with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and experiences they need to be informed, engaged members of their communities.

Source: http://www.aascu.org/programs/ADP/

ADP at TAMIU

Voting Initiative

As part of the APD, TAMIU has assembled an ALL IN Task Force to lead campus and community voting efforts. The Task Force has set three goals regarding voting:

Voter Education
Voter Registration
Voter Turnout

In order to accomplish these goals, TAMIU hosted National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. This campus-wide event registered 688 students and community members to vote.

Furthermore, TAMIU hosted Early Voting on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 30 – 31, 2018, during which a total of 1,810 voters made their voice heard.

ALL IN Task Force Updates

All in task force members — ALL IN Task Force student leaders participated in the first-ever Texas Voting Summit in Austin, Texas.

Voter registration at TAMIU — ALL IN Task Force hosted TAMIU’s first-ever National Voter Registration Day campus-wide event.

Students presenting in the summit — ALL IN Task Force student leaders shared TAMIU's campus-wide voting efforts at *Students Learn Students Vote Coalition’s 2018 Post-Election Summit* in Washington, D.C.

Digital Polarization Initiative

Texas A&M International University is participating in ADP’s Digital Polarization Initiative (DigiPo), a pilot project which aims to teach students fact-checking and online reasoning skills.

The reason behind DigiPo is that “If the general public does not develop the skills and knowledge to navigate the web, the web is as likely to misinform us as inform us, and as likely to pull us apart as pull us together.”

Ten-Second Fact Checks

Practicing these steps can help identify misinformation.
Prepared by Michael Caulfield, lead for ADP's DigiPo Initiative.

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For additional information regarding ADP, DigiPo, and Voter Registration, please contact Paty Cantu, M.A., American Democracy Project Campus Coordinator, by email at lilia.cantu@tamiu.edu or by phone at 956.326.2803.