Purpose

The Western States Research Network is a consortium of university affiliated policy research centers from eight intermountain states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Our purpose is to promote and facilitate collaborative research on western policy issues.

The Mountain West is unlike any other region of the country.  Great cities separated by vast open lands of majestic mountains, pine forests, and whitewater rivers.  Our diverse and growing population includes descendants of native tribes, early settlers and new immigrants from the population centers of the coasts and from other nations.  Like our land, public policy issues in the West are unique and are largely misunderstood or ignored by the rest of the country.

The Western Policy Research Network connects policymakers and researchers who are interested in policy issues unique to the Mountain West.  Most of these issues are not limited by state borders and can be more fully understood when explored from many perspectives. 

Members

We invite all university affiliated policy research centers interested in collaborative policy research on western issues to contact us and become active participants in this new policy research endeavor.

Membership and Press Contact:

Megan Crowley, CPPA
Phone: 801-585-5899

WPRN is administered by