For more information, go to http://www.icpsr.com/ICPSR/org/announce.html#tiger.

Dr. Kathy Naff (San Francisco State University) has been elected chair of the CSU Social Science Research and Instructional Council for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Dr. Charles Gossett (Political Science, Cal Poly Pomona) and Dr. Gregory Lewis (Public Administration and Urban Studies, Georgia State University) have published an article, "Changing Public Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage: The Case of California" in Politics & Policy, Volume 36, No. 1 (2008): 4-30. The article is based on research made possible by The Field Fellowship. An earlier paper based on the same research, "Explaining Rising Support for Same-Sex Marriage in California," presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, has won the Charles Redd Award for Best Paper on the Politics of the American West for 2007. For more information about the Field Fellowship, click here.

A workshop on the Social Science Data Bases is scheduled for Stanislaus on March 1; contact Steve Routh.

Dr. Lori Weber (Political Science, Chico), SSRIC Chair, has been elected to the Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Her four year term will begin in

The application deadline for the ICPSR sabbatical program for ORs has been extended to January 4. For more information, see read more Category: Announcements - Submitted by jlkorey on Tue, 2007-12-04 16:24.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is offering two exciting opportunities for undergraduates: a Summer Internship Program and a Research Paper Competition. For more information on the Summer Internship Program, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/careers/internship.html. For more information about the Undergraduate Research Paper Competition, see http://www.icpsr.com/ICPSR/prize/.

We are currently seeking proposals for new teaching modules and for requests to have datasets converted to SDA format. Submissions are due not later than January 15. For more information, please see the following MS Word files:

The 2006 General Social Survey (GSS) is now available through the SSRIC, For more information, see http://www.ssric.org/data/gss.

The California State University's Social Science Research and Instructional Council (SSRIC) is pleased to announce the Field Institute Faculty Fellowship and the Question Credits programs. The Field Faculty Fellowship offers CSU faculty the opportunity to place twelve questions on a Field Poll.