April 20, 2026

Civic Engagement Week Spotlight: Ramapo receives ALL IN accolades and Sophia Kopreski ’26 is named to ALL IN voter honor roll for commitment to increasing democratic engagement. 

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) announced that Ramapo College has been awarded a Highly Established Action Plan Seal, one of only four four-year colleges recognized in New Jersey and one of only 129 colleges and universities nationwide. This seal is awarded to campuses that have worked to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement and graduate engaged voters by building a strong nonpartisan action plan. ALL IN and the American Democracy Project, Campus Vote Project, NASPA Lead Initiative, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition created the Strengthening American Democracy Guide to help guide campuses on their journey to graduate democratically engaged students by building effective action plans.

Sophia Kopreski ’26 of Vineland, NJ, was named to the ALL IN Campus Democracy Student Voting Honor Roll this year. Only 168 students nationwide from ALL IN campuses were selected for this honor. Kopreski, who graduated in January with a political science major and public policy minor, supported Ramapo throughout 2025 to institutionalize nonpartisan civic engagement and increase college student voter participation. Kopreski is co-president and co-founder of the civic engagement student club Project ARCH. In 2024, she studied at Queen’s University in Belfast in the Fulbright Summer Institute, and in 2025, she spent a semester in Washington, DC at the Washington Internship Institute. Most recently, Kopreski was named a 2026 NYC Urban Fellow, where she will spend nine months working in the New York City government full-time.

2025 Ramapo College Scholars Day: Sophia Kopreski presented her research on how the political ideology of parents affects their children’s political views.

Ramapo is committed to fostering a culture that supports nonpartisan student civic learning, political engagement and student voter participation, spearheaded on campus by the Civic and Community Engagement Center.

Throughout National Voter Education Week, the Civic and Community Engagement Center hosts numerous voter registration drives for the student population as well as voter education events. Students who participate in these events should leave knowing their voter registration status, voting district, and easy ways to find out who is running for elected office. These events are run in collaboration with the student staff and the college’s Andrew Goodman Ambassadors.

The Civic and Community Engagement Center also hosts voter registration and engagement events leading up to the general election. Ramapo College participates in New Jersey’s Ballot Bowl, and the Civic and Community Engagement Center is responsible for all the related data collection and programming. In the last two elections, Ramapo finished 2nd in its division for Ballot Bowl. 

Ramapo College is no stranger to leading efforts to empower and strengthen student democratic engagement. In 2024 and 2022, Ramapo earned the Highly Established Action Plan seal. In 2023, Nora Rachouh ’23 was named to the ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll. In 2022, Ramapo was named an ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for Student Voting and Keren Ortega ‘22 was named to the ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll. Ramapo College also was named an ALL IN Gold Campus in the 2020 presidential election, boasting a student voter rate 11% above the national average.

Students gathered together on Election Night, November 5, 2024, to monitor and track live updates on national and local elections.

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is proud to recognize the colleges and universities that have earned the Highly Established Action Plan Seal of recognition and the students named to the honor roll for their tireless commitment to increasing democratic engagement on their campuses.