Faculty Contribute Questions to ASU Southwest Poll

Twenty-three individual faculty and one faculty team across ASU’s campuses contributed questions to the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) recent Southwest Poll. The ISSR polled more than 1,000 residents in the four Southwestern states and asked their opinions on several timely issues, including immigration, the economy and the environment.

The results of ASU’s Southwest Poll have been widely disseminated. During the first week more than 150 media outlets across the country ran stories on the poll. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Alan Artibise, who also serves as Executive Director of the ISSR, appears in The Arizona Republic on Sunday January 27th in the Viewpoints section of the paper. He discusses the Southwest Poll and its importance in offering presidential candidates and U.S. policymakers a new set of often untapped responses to some of the emerging issues this campaign and legislative season.

Faculty contributors have received the results of the poll for use in their own research. The data will also be available to other interested members of the ASU community on February 15th. Those interested in acquiring a copy of the poll’s results, please contact Jess Alberts at janet.alberts@asu.edu.