BRIEF: UHCL receives Voter Friendly Campus designation
UHCL received the 2021-2022 Voter Friendly Campus (VFC) designation. UHCL is among 21 other Texas institutions to receive this designation.
Mohammad-Mehdi Khan, community engagement coordinator at the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership, thinks that receiving this designation is a recognition that UHCL cares about civic engagement for students and the campus community as well as an opportunity to take what UHCL is already doing to the next level.
“UHCL is the only school in the UH System (UHS) to get this designation,” Khan added. “It kind of puts UHCL on the map as it relates to civic engagement initiatives so much so that we’re now reaching out to other campuses and talking about putting together that civic engagement alliance, different campuses coming together to impact change. And to be included in that process is going to be something really impactful.”
In 2016, the Voter Friendly Campus designation program started as a partnership between the Campus Vote Project and NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The Voter Friendly Campus’ website states that the intention of the program is to help institutions develop plans to get administrators, faculty and student organizations to work together in civic and electoral engagement.