National Voter Registration Day

It's Election Season! Our office has compiled various events offered at UConn related to voter registration and voting engagement across the university.

Calendar of Events

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  • Apr
    1
    UConn Hartford: Fresh Check Week
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    11:00 AM

    Fresh Check Day is a mental health promotion and suicide prevention fair that consists of interactive expo booths, peer-to-peer messaging, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and giveaways. 

    Join our Hartford location for a full week of Fresh Check!

  • Apr
    2
    UConn Hartford: Fresh Check Week
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    11:00 AM

    Fresh Check Day is a mental health promotion and suicide prevention fair that consists of interactive expo booths, peer-to-peer messaging, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and giveaways. 

    Join our Hartford location for a full week of Fresh Check!

  • Apr
    2
    Critical Teaching Behaviors Book Club - Hartford
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    12:00 PM

    We invite you to participate in the Critical Teaching Behaviors Book Club: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching!

  • Apr
    2
    Filthy, UnAmerican, and Dangerous in Their Habits
    The Dodd Center for Human Rights
    4:00 PM

    Kirsten Fermaglich, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University will give a lecture entitled “Filthy, UnAmerican and Dangerous in Their Habits: Antisemitism and the Emergency Quota Act, 1918-1921. This will be a hybrid program at the Konover Auditorium in Dodd Center for Human Rights and via Zoom.

  • Apr
    3
    UConn Hartford: Fresh Check Week
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    11:00 AM

    Fresh Check Day is a mental health promotion and suicide prevention fair that consists of interactive expo booths, peer-to-peer messaging, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and giveaways. 

    Join our Hartford location for a full week of Fresh Check!

  • Apr
    3
    Hartford Campus Pre-GSAW Kickoff
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    4:30 PM

    Come enjoy some free food and merch!

  • Apr
    3
    Shaping Tomorrow: Democracy, Human Rights, and Multilateralism in a Changing World
    William F. Starr Hall
    5:00 PM

    Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Carlos Alvarado Quesada, 48th president of the Republic of Costa Rica, about the shifting landscape of global democracy and multilateralism in the wake of recent events in the United States and Western democracies.

  • Apr
    4
    Dialogue in the Classroom for Instructors: Strategies for Building Engagement and Empathy
    Student Union
    10:00 AM

    Join us for this Democracy & Dialogues workshop on ways to incorporate structured dialogic modalities into the classroom.

  • Apr
    4
    Face to Face with Justice: AI, Facial Recognition Technology, Law Enforcement, and Privacy
    William F. Starr Hall
    10:00 AM

    The 2025 Connecticut Journal of International Law Symposium.

  • Apr
    4
    UConn Hartford: Fresh Check Week
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    11:00 AM

    Fresh Check Day is a mental health promotion and suicide prevention fair that consists of interactive expo booths, peer-to-peer messaging, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and giveaways. 

    Join our Hartford location for a full week of Fresh Check!

  • Apr
    9
    COOKIES & CONVO | Campus Community
    Hartford Times Building (Hartford)
    10:00 AM

    What’s on your mind?

    Join with the Campus Dean and fellow members of our UConn Hartford community for ongoing, informal, sustained conversations to discuss every and all topics relevant to our campus.

  • Apr
    9
    Difficult Subjects/Civil Conversations: A Workshop on Structured Dialogue
    Student Union
    10:00 AM

    Join us for this Democracy & Dialogues workshop to learn about how to plan, host and facilitate a structured dialogue.

Lt Col Jena Gartland, USAF, Professor of Aerospace Studies and Rhiannon Trunzo '26 (CLAS) pose with Jonathan the Husky in front of an American flag at the Ultimate Sacrifice Memorial on Oct. 4, 2024. (Baker Charbonnet/UConn Photo)

Next Gen Elections: College Students Powering the Polls

Next Gen Students during their training at the Innovation Partnership Building on September 11, 2024

The Next Gen Elections program trains college students to be poll workers at the Moderator level throughout Connecticut.

All Next Gen participants are paired with an experienced Registrar of voters who serves as their mentor. Participants work at least 20 hours per year during the 2024 and 2025 general elections. Training and working primarily take place during each fall election season. Transportation costs to and from assigned location(s) are reimbursed, including gas/mileage, public transportation, and/or ride-share services.

UConn is represented by 17 students (out of 40) in the 2024 cohort.

Applications for the next cohort are due on April 25, 2025.  More information here: Next Gen Elections - Application Process

 

 

National Voter Registration Day Kick-Off with Secretary Thomas at Gampel Pavilion September 17, 2024