NEW YORK – Last week, on Voter Registration Day, the BIG EAST Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) kicked off a voter registration challenge that will continue through Oct. 30. The challenge is part of an overall goal to increase civic awareness among student-athletes which resonates appropriately in a Presidential election and census data collection year.
After the first week of the challenge, DePaul, Xavier and Providence have the highest percentages of eligible student-athlete voters registered.
The metric used in the voter registration challenge is a percentage of the number of student-athletes registered to vote based on the total number of eligible student-athletes at the particular BIG EAST institution.