Junior Savannah McGlothlin named to ALL IN honor roll
By Cam Adams
Savannah McGlothlin has gone above and beyond for her fellow students at Western Carolina University during election season.
She鈥檚 the vice president of the Student Democracy Coalition, a student organization dedicated to increasing civic engagement, and she invited every candidate in North Carolina to campus for an event last year.
You can tell voter turnout means a lot to the junior English education major 鈥� and it鈥檚 being recognized. McGlothlin was among 232 college students across the country named as a representative of the 2025 ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge鈥檚 student voting honor roll.
鈥淚t is nice to be recognized for the effort,鈥� she said. 鈥淓veryone in the Student Democracy Coalition puts in so much work to help this be a politically active campus in trying to take down any barriers to voting.
鈥淚t's just nice to get as much awareness out there that we are actively doing something.鈥�
McGlothlin, a Kings Mountain native, has been involved with the Student Democracy Coalition since her freshman year.
Along with the student organization, she helped make sure there was a voting place on campus, made sure CatCards count as a valid voting ID and set up shuttles to off-campus voting places.
Efforts like hers aided WCU in being named a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting in November.
鈥淚t was very rewarding. There were so many people with so many questions that I wouldn鈥檛 have expected,鈥� McGlothlin said. 鈥淭his is one of the most politically active campuses in North Carolina, and we definitely like to think part of that is this because of us.鈥�
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is a nonprofit that aims to empower higher education institutions to 鈥渁chieve excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement.鈥�
