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This nonpartisan democratic engagement action plan was developed by 91看片网 in Minnesota for the 2026 election as well as local and primary elections before then. The purpose of this action plan is to increase nonpartisan civic learning, student voter registration, education, and turnout as well as engagement in our democracy for the 2026 election cycle. The plan aims to create a comprehensive, inclusive, and accessible framework for educating, registering, and motivating students to vote, fostering a culture of civic responsibility across the campus community. The duration of this action plan is from December 15, 2025 through December 15, 2027 when we will update our action plan for the next election cycle. The goals for 91看片网 for the 2026 election are:

• Increase Voter Registration: Facilitate voter registration drives to ensure that all eligible students are registered to vote. The initiative will partner with local election authorities, student organizations, athletics, and state and community non-profit partners to create and promote registration efforts.
• Voter Education: Provide clear, accessible, and unbiased information on policies and voting processes. This will include campus events, digital communication, and resources to inform students about their voting rights and the importance of participating in elections.
• Targeted Outreach: Ensure outreach efforts reach underrepresented groups, including first-time voters and students from historically marginalized communities, to ensure equitable access to the voting process.

Collaboration from a variety of staff and students will ensure a myriad of perspectives and voices to reach students at all levels of their campus experience. Currently, the Campus Voting Coalition has commitments from partners across the campus, including:

• Students: Recruited and identified at the start of fall semester

• • Student Senate: Senate President and 1-2 additional Senators
  • Student Athletic Advisory Committee: 1-2 members of the student athletic committee that has representation from each sport
  • Student Organization Leaders: 3-5 members of student organizations with emphasis on identity-based student groups

• Administration:

• • Head of Staff: Henoc Preciado
  • Vice President of Student Affairs: Kevin Stensberg

• Staff:

• • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Ashley Gomez
  • Health & Counseling: Hannah Wilson
  • Residence Life: Adam Berg
  • Student Union & Student Organizations: Nina Johnson (Campus Vote Coordinator)
  • Athletics: Erin Mykleby
  • Communications & Marketing: Andy Bartlett (leadership) and Emily Dukek-Haasken (social media)
  • Academic faculty: Travis Ricks and Thomas Dirth

• Community Partners:
  • Beltrami County: Edie Frantzen (Beltrami County Election Specialist)
  • City of Bemidji: Gwenia Fiskevold Gould (Bemidji City Council member)

These leaders will serve as our core team for planning voter engagement activities and events, and will recruit active involvement from the areas they represent including student athletes and coaches, student organization leaders, representatives from identity-based student groups, and residence hall student staff.

Members of the coalition will gather on a regular basis with frequency increasing at the start of the academic year in preparation for Election Day. Members will learn best practices for voter engagement through a variety of resources including All In’s training and webinar video series, information from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office, and practices shared by our county election specialist specific to local elections. The members of the coalition were largely recruited based on their roles within their departments so if a leader leaves the institution or changes role, we will depend on their office or organization to assist in replacing them.

As an institution of postsecondary education in the state of Minnesota, we are required by to designate a Campus Vote Coordinator, who ensures that our institution complies with the state statute and consults with the campus student association to develop a voter engagement plan. While the individual in that role may change, this role will continue the work of ensuring the work of this plan is carried out in collaboration with the Campus Voting Coalition.

As the election draws near, we will actively seek out additional campus partners by preparing easy to share materials and making direct asks for engagement such as classroom announcements or residence hall programming facilitated by student staff. We look forward to seeking out additional non-partisan civic organizations such as the League of Women Voters.

Demonstrating a commitment to increasing civic learning, political engagement, and voter participation involves a multifaceted approach that prioritizes education, accessibility, and active participation. Here are several critical ways 91看片网 shows this commitment:

• Vision, Mission, and Shared Fundament Values. 91看片网’s vision is to “educate people to lead inspired lives.” Our mission leads us to “instill and promote service to others, preservation of the earth and respect and appreciation for the diverse peoples of our region and world.” Civic engagement and leadership are etched into our shared fundamental values.
• Integrating civic education into the curriculum. In the 91看片网 general education program, goal area 9 speaks to ethical and civic responsibility and includes courses that “develop students’ capacity to identify, discuss, and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of political, social, and personal life and to understand the ways in which they can exercise responsible and productive citizenship.”
• Fostering a culture of civic responsibility. In both classroom and out-of-classroom activities, students participate in service and volunteerism. Through student government, students explore their responsibility toward self-advocacy and working with administration to develop a desirable student experience responsive to student needs. We celebrate key events relevant to civic engagement and voting such as Constitution Day, Voter Education Week, Election Day and other civic and national holidays that encourage and celebrate democracy.

Recently, current President John Hoffman signed the ALL IN’s Presidents’ Commitment to Full Student Voter Participation, which no president had signed previously.

Our institution has not previously submitted an action plan to ALL IN. This is our first action plan submission.

91看片网 is a public 4-year institution and joined the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge in 2025. Our institution has 4,577 students. Our institution represents the following institution types:  Predominantly White Institution, Rural Serving Institution.

As a campus in Minnesota, we participate in the Minnesota Democracy Cup in partnership with the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office.

With our regional emphasis, we are largely serving the people of northern Minnesota.  Bemidji State is located in the city of Bemidji in Beltrami County. Beltrami County is nestled in the middle of three American Indian tribal nations. With this close proximity to tribal communities, the university has a significant emphasis on serving American Indian students. Our institution also has a strong and long-standing TRIO program which serves first generation students, low-income, and students with disabilities. Our campus serves a unique need in northern Minnesota so a commitment to civic responsibility and voter engagement is paramount to our service to our region.

91看片网 has authorized the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE) and previously received NSLVE reports. Our NSLVE report demonstrated a high commitment to voter registration and turnout, but we believe with more intentional efforts across multiple areas of our students’ campus and learning experience, we can increase student voter registration and election participation.

We will update our action plan, including the landscape and goals sections, when we receive our 2024 NSLVE report.

In 2024, the Minnesota legislature passed legislation that included a number of provisions designed to increase ballot access and provide funding for elections administration. Requirements of postsecondary institutions that existed before the law included:

• providing voter registration forms to students in the fall and spring of each year at least 15 days before the registration deadline of a state general election;
• consulting with student government to determine how to best distribute voter registration forms and support same day registration of student voters;
• report to the secretary of state on implementation of these requirements each November.

Bemidji State implemented these requirements for the fall 2024 election and continues to this day under the guidance of the Campus Vote Coordinator, currently Nina Johnson – Director of the Hobson Memorial Union student union and advisor to the 91看片网 Student Association Student Senate.

The 2024 law also increased the forms of ID that students may use for same day voter registration to include a driver’s license or state ID card, tribal ID, or other document approved by the secretary of state.

The polling place for our on-campus residents and the residential neighborhood surrounding the campus (Beltrami County Ward 1) is located just across the street from the physical campus. There is also opportunity under this new legislation for campuses to request the arrangement of an early voting location for students or community members to submit absentee ballots prior to Election Day.

Minnesota is a state with supportive voting laws so the landscape for student voter participation is strong.

Key for this voter engagement plan cycle include:

91看片网’s nonpartisan democratic engagement goals are:

• Create a Campus Voting Coalition with representation at all levels of the student experience from university administration, faculty, student support staff, athletics, communications & marketing, and student representatives from student government, identity-based student clubs, and other key student organizations.
• Develop a calendar of events and activities that will meet and exceed legislative requirements of so that activities can be completed in a timely and repeatable way.
• Increase voter registration to 90% or more in the 2028 Presidential election and 50% or more in the 2026 Midterm elections. Of the students who are registered, we will seek that 85% will participate on Election Day or by absentee voting in advance.
• Invite athletic coaches to participate in the ALL IN Coaches’ Voter Registration and Engagement Pledge with the goal of at least 50% of head coaches and 30% of assistant coaches making the commitment.

Our long-term goal will be to consistently increase voter registration and turn out over time by developing a consistent series of voter engagement efforts and building a culture of civic engagement with an emphasis on voting. We will facilitate this by building up our Campus Voting Coalition to have consistent leadership and clear representation across key areas of the campus. We will carefully document discussions in meeting minutes, designate clear action items, complete voter engagement activities, and evaluate the effectiveness of these activities so that each election cycle we can build on the last for long term success.

The success of the plan will be measured by the increase in voter registration rates in future NSLVE reports, student turnout on Election Day, and overall engagement with voter education initiatives.

Bemidji State intends to build institutional culture and infrastructure that supports civic learning, political engagement, and voter participation with the following activities:

• Work with the Campus Voting Coalition to develop a more comprehensive and robust voter engagement plan with short and long-term strategies
• Develop both spring and fall semester voter engagement calendars for communication and event series for voter education
• Expand social media and digital campaigns to reach both on-campus and distance learners.

Annually we will participate in civic holidays such as Constitution Day on September 17^th to kick off a voter registration drive. We will collaborate with our Beltrami County Voter Engagement Specialist to plan a series of events for National Voter Education Week. As well as work with our non-profit student advocacy group to implement their initiatives on our campus.

The Campus Voting Coalition will dedicate its spring semester meetings to evaluate the previous election cycle’s successes and learnings and develop a list of activities for the following fall’s election cycle. We will task the representative members of our coalition to bring discussion items for feedback to their department and organization meetings and return feedback for further improvement. We believe engaging campus partners within department and organization meetings will increase participation across all areas and make civic engagement more imbedded in the culture of our campus.

We will facilitate a train-the-trainer model of teaching key leaders across the campus to be able to speak comfortably about voter registration and where and why to vote so that faculty and students can speak in classrooms and student organization leaders can share in their membership meetings and events.

91看片网 will host a webpage within the online student handbook with key voting information. This webpage will be updated at the start of each calendar year with information about the election cycle. Our campus action plan will be linked to this webpage so that it can be promoted broadly with our communications on elections and voter registration. Currently that webpage is located here.

We will work with our campus web team to create a URL shortener and a more dynamic page.

We will take attendance at any activities we are able and request feedback from participants for improvements to future events. We will debrief any findings at Campus Voting Coalition meetings and document success and learning so that future members of the Voting Coalition can learn from past activities. We will share key data such as voter registration and turnout to social media to normalize voting.

We will evaluate our action plan in the following ways:

• We will analyze our NSLVE data and examine breakdowns of voting method and voter turnout by various demographic data available
• All Campus Voting Coalition programming will be promoted on the student activities events calendar BeaverLink. To the best of our ability, we will take attendance at events to learn data on our audience and measure changes in participation. We will evaluate the effectiveness of programming with participant surveys.
• The Campus Voting Coalition will dedicate one meeting after each Election Day to evaluate whether we completed each activity on our established calendar. If not, we will discuss what barriers prevented us from doing so and how we can improve in future cycles.
• Each election cycle we will also seek to host focus groups of students to learn about their voter knowledge and what voter engagement activities of which they were aware or participated.