New from the UMass Poll, we show the Epstein scandal is hurting Trump, particularly among Trump voters:
theconversation.com/trumps-epste...

Great paper! Tatishe Nteta and I similarly found that negative racial attitudes were associated with greater opposition to the prosecution of planners and perpetrators of 1/6.

academic.oup.com/psq/article-...

They should be available here: www.umass.edu/political-sc...

Please let me know if you can't access them!

Hi everyone,
New from the UMass Poll Substack, we do a deep dive on American attitudes toward immigration policy and find that most Americans don't support Trump's authoritarian measures.

umassamherstpollreport.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

The UMass Poll is launching a Substack! Check out our first post, on Trump's declining popularity, and subscribe!

open.substack.com/pub/umassamh...

Ever wondered what MAGA means to ordinary Americans? The UMass Poll asked, and what we found was fascinating.

theconversation.com/what-maga-me...

Using UMass Poll data, Tatishe Nteta, Adam Eichen, Lane Cuthbert, and I show that opposition to transgender rights is associated with authoritarian attitudes, above and beyond partisanship, ideology, and religiosity. In The Conversation:
theconversation.com/antagonism-t...

New research shows the American public continues to support diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
(Doug Rice @jesserhodesumass.bsky.social Tatishe Nteta @eichen.bsky.social @umasspoll.bsky.social‬)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250606-top...

Please consider donating to the UMass Poll Undergraduate Fellows program. This program provides outstanding Undergraduate students with opportunities to build their survey analysis skills and undertake survey research. 100% of funds go to supporting students.

umass.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-...

Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration sets an example for our educational institutions.

We call on colleges and universities around the country to use every tool available to protect academic freedom.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/21/m...

One feature of Harvard's defiance of Trump that might be slightly underappreciated is that it indicates that Harvard's wealthy alumni and donors think it is okay to defy Trump. And this sends the signal to other wealthy and powerful people it is socially acceptable to defy Trump.

Today our organizing team at UMass Amherst reached out to faculty at universities and colleges across the state asking them to join us in a Massachusetts Higher Education Compact.

PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION.

Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students.

bit.ly/CampusLettersTally

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

If only someone could have foreseen this.

Rachel Maddow covers emergent plans for universities to bad together to defend higher ed, and mentions our resolution at UMass!

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Our new UMass Poll shows that both Trump and Musk are increasingly unpopular and untrusted on key issues.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Universities like Rutgers and UMass Amherst have faculty senates calling for this. Here is UMass's faculty senate resolution, which was adopted last week:
drive.google.com/file/d/1TNDl...

UMass Amherst's faculty senate endorsed a mutual academic defense compact to band together with other institutions to fight attacks on higher ed!

drive.google.com/file/d/1TNDl...

I hope other universities will pursue similar initiatives.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

I'm supposed to be at
Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

Thanks Rick @chronicle.com for talking with @daniellaurison.bsky.social and I about We Are Higher Ed and the groundswell of faculty resistance to attacks on Higher Ed. Here’s what we talked about—which includes a link to our letter and website.

This is why we need more R1s and Land grants following Rutgers' call for collective defense and aggressive public outreach