Catamount post-mortem: What does it actually take to engage students?

This story/opinion was published in ForbesBrandVoice on Oct. 12, 2017.  Western Carolina University (WCU), my beautiful campus tucked away in a Blue Ridge valley, had high expectations for the 2016 election. The civic engagement team I led as a student coordinator hoped for a 10-24% increase in student voter turnout; and, until recently, we believed […]