UMD to Host National Summit on College Student Voting

The University of Maryland’s Maryland Democracy Initiative and the nonprofit Students Learn Students Vote Coalition are co-sponsoring the 10th annual National Student Vote Summit on campus this week. 

The summit, whose on-campus sponsor is TerpsVote, will unite more than 300 nonprofit leaders, campus staff, administrators, faculty members, philanthropic partners, election officials and students from across the country to continue a decade-long mission to increase college student voter participation.

Running from Wednesday through Friday, the gathering will build on the momentum and insights from the 2024 Summit, also at UMD. There, nonpartisan student vote leaders took on challenges like local election turnout, combating misinformation and reducing post-election disengagement. 

This event aims to amplify the group’s collective power and chart a course for elections in 2026, with sessions on topics such as youth voting rights, campus polling sites and the power of civil discourse.