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The American West Time-Sharing Survey is a collaborative project led by the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Texas El Paso (UTEP), Texas Tech ³Ô¹ÏÍø (TTU), the ³Ô¹ÏÍø 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. We have fielded prior waves in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and Fall 2026.

Spring 2026 Wave - 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 2026 wave, by February 28th, 2026 please email your proposed survey content to civics@colorado.edu, matt.lamb@ttu.edu, or mnbaker@utep.edu.

When submitting your content, please include as much details as possible, including the you'd like it formatted as. Due to time constraints, we discourage open ended text entry questions.

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.

We expect to be able to recruit 1,500~2,000+ respondents, with a near even split between non-Hispanic white and Hispanic respondents. Unfortunately due to the demographic composition of our member institutions we are unable to promise sufficient African-American or Asian American Pacific Island (AAPI) respondents for statistical analysis.

If your content is selected for inclusion, 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 three-minutes per proposal. One-minute of content is equivalent to approximately 3-4 multiple choice questions with four response options. I.e., 10-12 questions maximum. We can code basic multiple-choice questions and simple A/B experiments, but if you’d like to propose a complex experiment or survey item we request that you help us code it.

The survey will include basic demographic questions, including partisanship and ideology. A copy of the default demographic questions can be found here (»å´Ç·É²Ô±ô´Ç²¹»å).Ìý

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