{"id":123330,"date":"2021-10-04T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=123330"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:50:29","slug":"new-study-examines-political-socialization-at-historically-black-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/new-study-examines-political-socialization-at-historically-black-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Examines Political Socialization at Historically Black Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historically Black colleges and universities have produced leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., former U.S. Representative John Lewis, and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, but the political makeup of their students, particularly how they form their political opinions and values, has not often been explored.<\/p>\n

A new University of Central Florida College of Community Innovation and Education<\/a> project aims to change that with a recent, more than $120,000 award from the U.S. National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n

The project will focus on studying culturally relevant messaging and political socialization of historically Black college and university students and how those factors influence political interest and participation.<\/p>\n

Political socialization refers to the values and political opinions instilled in people as a result of the people they are around and their social environment.<\/p>\n