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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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August 19, 2008
'The Chronicle' Teams Up With CBS News and UWire for Poll of Student Voters
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
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Honestly, do you really need a poll to determine which candidate most students favor?
— JJ Aug 19, 03:58 PM #
‘Don’t think so. My guess is that the demographic with the least life experience will favor the candidate with the least life experience.
— FB Aug 20, 08:42 AM #
Or they’ll just not vote for the candidate with the least life expectancy.
— CG Aug 20, 09:27 AM #
But what will get the young out to vote? Or are they all-talk and no-do?
— NJH Aug 20, 10:13 AM #
I’m not sure I want to push the young vote. I honestly don’t think that as a whole they know enough to make a good decision. Those that are informed and do think about such things are likely to make a good decision, but the average 18-year old student I come in contact with on a daily basis has no clue. I think pushing clueless people to vote is dangerous. Make voting available, and make it easy to do, but don’t push it on people who, for the most part, have never held a full time job and are still getting the majority of their support from mommy and daddy.
— FB Aug 20, 11:30 AM #
So according to the previous comments, because students are young, this means they can’t think about politics?
Maybe it’s because I’m a college student, but this seems incorrect. There are people who are too dumb to vote of every demographic.
And FB, just being in college doesn’t mean “mommy and daddy” pay for everything. Your soapbox is pretty tall.
— Tim Tim Aug 20, 11:51 AM #
Wow, I must say I am surprised by the negativtiy and cynicism. I am amazed by the small world some of us live in. Maybe we should limit all voting to the living rooms of a select few, this way FB and others can weed out anyone who really “shouldn’t” be voting.
— BA Aug 20, 12:35 PM #
I am also amazed by the negative comments about students. Like every other aspect of American society there are informed and uninformed individuals. I have met countless intelligent and well-informed students in my years in education. I can only hope that those of you with the overly-negative views are not educators.
— JP Aug 20, 03:53 PM #