| August Mon, 2020
Menendez: This kind of suppression comes straight out of a dictator’s playbook
Elizabeth Matto, the director of Rutgers Center for Youth Political Participation, says voters should not have to choose between their physical health and exercising the right to vote.
| August Fri, 2020
NJ Moves to Mail-In Voting for November
This year’s elections will take mostly by mail in New Jersey, which comes as concerns grow over whether the Postal Service can handle such a flood of ballots. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.
| July Tue, 2020
Why it may be weeks before N.J. has election results for some primaries
NJ.com interviewed Dr. Elizabeth Matto, Eagleton professor and director of Center for Youth Political Participation, about the New Jersey Primary Election.
| December Fri, 2019
Rutgers University Gets Out the Vote: Going Big in the Big Ten and Beyond
Elizabeth C. Matto, Associate Research Professor at Rutgers University, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign.
| November Tue, 2019
Rutgers Awarded ”Greatest Growth in Student Voter Turnout” in Big Ten Voting Challenge
Rutgers had the greatest gains in student voter turnout over the past four years in the Big Ten Voting Challenge – a nonpartisan initiative to spur civic engagement and encourage more students to head to the polls.
| May Tue, 2019
Cap and Gown: Eagleton graduates look to future
Two graduating seniors have spent their last year at Rutgers working at the Eagleton Institute’s Center for Youth Political Participation (CYPP), a program that promotes youth engagement in politics. They will both miss Rutgers, but are looking forward to their plans to go to law school.
| October Thu, 2018
Rutgers Helps Students to Register, Vote in November Midterm Election
RU Voting, run by the Eagleton Institute of Politics’ Center for Youth Political Participation at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, is encouraging students to pay attention to politics, register to vote and turn out on Election Day.
| September Tue, 2018
Eagleton celebrates National Voter Registration Day with student involvement drives at Rutgers
With midterm elections around the corner, the Center for Youth Political Participation (CYPP) is keeping civic engagement active on campus through polling events for National Voter Registration Day today.
| October Mon, 2017
Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the N.J. elections — Here is what you need to know
The New Jersey elections are set to take place on Nov. 7 and the ballot will include the highly anticipated gubernatorial race along with 120 state legislature seats.
| September Wed, 2015
Students visit Harvard for conference on political participation
From conversing with politicians from across the country to learning about voter mobilization among millennials, two Rutgers students took a trip to Harvard University to participate in an intensive training conference led by Harvard's Institute of Politics.