A group of Berea College students, faculty and staff are working with the Madison County League of Women Voters to make sure everyone has the opportunity to vote in the significant upcoming elections. Their goal is to register 750 new voters from the campus and community over the next three weeks.

The project is being sponsored by CELTS, the College's new Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service, and the Madison County League of Women Voters, who are working with College and community volunteers.

To make it happen, during the week of Sept. 25-29 students have been invited to make non-partisan appeals at the beginning of College classes on the importance of voting. Along with faculty and staff, they also will be taking their message (and voter registration cards) to campus clubs and organizations. Students will be registering voters in the College's alumni building for several days and at the Student Government Kick-off Convocation in Phelps-Stokes building on Sept. 28. Joan Peoples of the League of Women Voters will conduct a student training session in the Students For Appalachia Office (SFA) office in the Bruce Building at 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 25.

Berea student Jason Fults says the project is off to a great start. "We've had a great response from faculty so far. We've already gotten requests from about 20 professors who want us to come talk to their classes, " Fults said. "Yesterday was the first day we had a registration table set up in the Alumni Building and we had 60 people register to vote."

Volunteers are still needed for presentations and registration tables on campus and in the community at events coordinated by the League of Women Voters.

To volunteer or for additional information contact Meta Mendel-Reyes, CELTS director, Jason Fults or Rebekka Harrison at (859)985-3940.