Pundits are predicting that the under-30 crowd may be a key voting block in November’s presidential election, but what issues energize those young voters and which candidate do they prefer?

In an attempt to answer those questions, The Chronicle has teamed up with UWire, the college-newspaper wire service, and CBS News to conduct a poll of student voters in four battleground states this fall. The CBS News-UWIRE-Chronicle of Higher Education poll will be conducted in early October, and along with our partners, The Chronicle will publish the results later that month.

The poll is just part of The Chronicle‘s coverage of the election. Two Chronicle reporters, Kelly Field and Karin Fischer, will be covering the two party conventions for us in the coming weeks. You can follow their reports in our daily report as well as in the Campaign U. blog.

In September our politics editor, Sara Hebel, will be a panelist at the National Educational Policy Forum, sponsored by the University of Mississippi. The event is taking place the day before the first presidential debate, which will be held on the university’s Oxford campus. You can expect coverage from there as well. —Jeffrey Selingo