| Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life

A blank ballot with a yes and no option. An expert at Tufts’ Center for State Policy Analysis gives a detailed—and nonpartisan—explanation of the Massachusetts “millionaires tax” ballot question

The Lowdown on the Massachusetts “Millionaires Tax” Ballot Question

An expert at Tufts’ Center for State Policy Analysis gives a detailed - and nonpartisan - explanation of Question 1

Why Getting More People to Vote Makes the Nation Stronger

Convincing Americans - especially the young and the marginalized - to cast their ballots is essential to the health of our democracy

A chart shows youth voter turnout from 1994 to 2022

Millions of Youth Cast Ballots, Decide Key 2022 Races

Young people, who overwhelmingly favored Democrats, had one of their highest turnout rates ever in a midterm and shaped results across the country

Bernard Fraga speaking to an audience at Tisch College

Tell Me More: Why Minority Voting Turnout Matters

Bernard Fraga talks in a Tufts podcast about the complex causes of the election turnout gap between minority and white voters.

Matthew Tolbert, Lidya Woldeyesus, and Peter de Guzman

Tufts Student Leaders Present at National Summit on Youth Voter Engagement

Tisch College's Peter de Guzman, who spearheaded our JumboVote initiative, joined the Tufts undergraduates as they shared their experiences and mentored other students from across the country.

Announcing the Tufts Campaign School

Spearheaded by Tisch College, this one-week winter course will offer students who want to work in politics a chance to learn key skills from experienced scholars and campaign veterans.

A young woman looks at a national map divided between red and blue states

Learn How to Be a Campaign Staffer

The new Tufts Campaign School is a six-day course in the winter term designed to train students about political campaigns ahead of the 2020 election.

A woman wearing a t-shirt that reads "voting expert" is coloring in areas of a map-like diagram in red and blue

Exclusive Analysis: College Student Voting Doubled in 2018

Tisch College's Institute for Democracy & Higher Education's national study finds that 40% of college students voted in last year's midterms.

A graph of Tufts University's student voting and registration rates

45% of Tufts Students Voted in the 2018 Midterm Elections

Data from Tisch College's National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement show that Tufts' voting rate more than doubled compared to the 2014 midterms.