American West Time-Sharing Survey

CALL FOR SURVEY CONTENT

The American West Time-Sharing Survey has an open call for survey content submissions. If you would like to include survey items for the Spring 2025 wave, by March 1st, 2025 please email your proposed survey content to racelab@colorado.edu, matt.lamb@ttu.edu, or mnbaker@utep.edu.

All graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty are welcome to submit content. We especially encourage submissions from doctoral candidates. There is no monetary cost involved.

The American West Time-Sharing Survey is a collaborative project led by the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), Texas Tech University (TTU), the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), and other major research universities in the western United States. The intent of the project is to conduct a regular survey of undergraduate students in the American west.

Based on our pilot in fall 2025, we expect to be able to recruit 2,000+ respondents, with a near even split between non-Hispanic white and Hispanic respondents. In our fall 2025 pilot wave we were able to replicate prior studies in American Politics, International Relations, and Race & Ethnic Politics.

If your content is selected for inclusion in the Spring 2025 wave, we ask that you help us field the survey in your institution. When selecting survey content, we will prioritize submissions from collaborative member-institutions. If you would like your institution to be a member-institution of the collaborative, please contact us at the above email.

At this time, we are limiting survey content to five-minutes per proposal. One-minute of content is equivalent to approximately 3-4 multiple choice questions with four response options. Shorter submissions are more likely to be accepted. We can code basic multiple-choice questions, but if you’d like to propose an experiment or complex survey item we request that you submit a QSF file.

The survey will include basic demographic questions, including partisanship and ideology. A copy of the default demographic questions can be found here (download). 

Member Institutions:

... and other major universities in the American West!