The University of Houston has secured the Highly Established Action Plan designation from ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for the 2026 election cycle. This is the university’s first election cycle to have received this recognition from ALL IN after joining the Challenge in 2024. This recognition is awarded to campuses leading the way with innovative strategies to increase nonpartisan civic engagement on their campus.
UH joins 128 other campuses recognized for developing an action plan, which has been scored using the Strengthening American Democracy Action Planning Guide (SADG) Rubric. It was developed as a collaboration led by the Center for Student Involvement’s Leadership and Civic Engagement area in partnership with Government & Community Relations, Student Housing & Residential Life, and the Office of the Provost. The university page on the ALL IN Challenge website has been updated to reflect this distinction. It can be viewed here.
“This recognition is a great signal that our efforts to increase nonpartisan civic engagement in the UH community are on the right track,” said Eric Smith, Associate Director at the Center for Student Involvement. “We are committed to promoting student voter participation on campus.”
The Strengthening American Democracy Action Planning Guide (SADG) Rubric scores campus action plans on nine categories, including National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE), Campus Leadership, and Reporting. Action plans, according to ALL IN, “are intended to be dynamic documents developed by a campus voting coalition to document efforts to institutionalize and increase nonpartisan civic learning, political engagement, and voter participation.” University of Houston’s action plan scored 31.5 out of 36 possible points.
Written by Rebecca Sweett, Administrative Coordinator for the Center for Student Involvement