Why efforts to get college students to vote may get harder

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of increasing college student voter turnout amidst restrictions on data access due to a Trump administration investigation.

To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration investigation has cut schools off from new data, as NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports . Support NPR and hear every episode of Trump's Terms sponsor-free with NPR+. Sign up at plus.npr.org . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

People in this episode

Guest: Hansi Lo Wang

Topics covered

• student voting
• college registration
• Trump administration
• data access
• political engagement

Keywords

• college students
• voter registration
• turnout rates
• Trump administration
• NPR

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Organizations: NPR, Trump administration

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