According to the poll, while nearly 80 percent of faculty members plan to encourage their students to vote, only 30 percent of them plan to discuss the upcoming election in their classrooms.
Many professors also face scrutiny and risk imperiling their jobs by holding discussions that could be perceived as attempts to influence their students politically.
In the same poll, 41 percent of respondents said they don't believe their vote will make a real difference.
Our country can and should do a much better job of welcoming newly eligible voters into the democratic process, and what better place to do so than a classroom full of college students?
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