The Civic Engagement Working Group (CEWG) at NCCU is a student-led initiative formed in 2020 as a collaboration supported by faculty, staff, alumni, and community. The group presented their unique collaboration at a national conference, the Gulf South Summit, to highlight the integration of alumni engagement in their daily work. The CEWG Ambassador program was birthed out of this initiative and continues to have new leaders emerge.
Early voting location for all students: Precinct 55-49
NCCU Turner Law Building, 640 Nelson Street, Durham, NC
September 18–October 4, 2025:
Students residing on campus: Precinct 55-49
NCCU Turner Law Building, 640 Nelson Street, Durham, NC
Shuttle service is available on campus.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 6:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
If downloaded on a mobile device, it takes you to the store to get the app. If you are on a desktop, you go to a page where you can scan the QR code.
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Celebrate our Eagle excellence! Your participation matters. Your vote counts. We are designated as a 2025–2026 Voter-Friendly Campus.
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has been recognized as a Voter Friendly Campus by the Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The national recognition highlights colleges and universities that actively empower students to register, engage and participate in elections.
The initiative evaluates institutions on their efforts to remove barriers to voting, implement voter education programs, and mobilize students to participate in the electoral process. NCCU was recognized for its comprehensive 2024 plan to register, educate, and turn out student voters.
NCCU joins a select group of institutions nationwide honored for promoting student voter engagement, collectively serving more than four million students. This year’s designees also include 13 historically Black colleges and universities and 47 community colleges.
This year, North Carolina Central University received the Bronze Campus Seal for achieving a 20%–29% voter participation rate in the 2022 midterm elections.
All In Campus Democracy Challenge is a national award program established in 2016, following the 2012 call on the U.S. to reclaim higher education’s civic mission by the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, in A Crucible Moment to make civic learning and engagement more pervasive on college campuses. More than 1,000 campuses across the U.S. have joined the ALL IN Challenge. ALL IN has awarded campuses for excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement efforts by reviewing and analyzing the data of previous election cycles.
Highest Registration Rate at an HBCU
In 2024, NCCU was also awarded the Highest Registration Rate at an HBCU.
All IN also presents the Best In Class award based upon institutional characteristics. Within each category awards are presented to the campus with the highest voter registration rate, highest voting rate and the most improved voting rate. Most improved voting rates are a comparison of presidential to presidential elections, and midterm to midterm elections.
North Carolina Central University is one of 192 campuses that has earned this recognition so far for the 2024 election cycle.
North Carolina Central University has earned ALL IN's Highly Established Action Plan Seal for the 2024 election cycle for developing a nonpartisan democratic engagement action plan that received at least 31.5 of 36 possible points based on the Strengthening American Democracy Action Planning Guide (SADG) Rubric.