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USD President James T. Harris III joined other Catholic university leaders in signing statements supporting DACA recipients and urging Congress to protect 'Dreamers' from deportation.
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As a Roman Catholic institution , USD maintains certain traditional stances on life and marriage that occasionally align with conservative or MAGA-adjacent social values.
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USD is a member of the 'We Are Still In' coalition, a group of leaders committed to the Paris Agreement despite the Trump administration's withdrawal.
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The university engages in lobbying primarily focused on student aid (Pell Grants) and research funding, which are generally bipartisan issues.
Notes: Lobbying is conducted through associations like NAICU.
Standard institutional lobbying for funding does not typically signal a specific MAGA or anti-MAGA alignment.
Advocating for private, nonprofit higher education.
As a Roman Catholic institution, USD maintains certain traditional stances on life and marriage that occasionally align with conservative or MAGA-adjacent social values.
Notes: The university balances Catholic social teaching (often liberal on immigration/poverty) with traditional moral teaching.
Catholic identity is a complex signal. While the university is socially progressive on many fronts, its religious foundation provides a point of commonality with conservative voters, though not necessarily the MAGA movement specifically.
USD is a contemporary Catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts tradition.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) data indicates that the vast majority of political donations from individuals listing 'University of San Diego' as their employer go to Democratic candidates and committees.
Notes: Aggregated data from OpenSecrets for the 2024 and 2022 cycles.
While the institution itself does not donate, the political leaning of its faculty and staff is a strong indicator of the institutional culture, which is overwhelmingly non-MAGA.
Contributions from University of San Diego employees favor Democrats.
Following the events of January 6, 2021, the university leadership issued a statement condemning the violence and describing it as an assault on democracy.
While many institutions condemned the violence, the framing of the event as a threat to democratic institutions aligns with the anti-MAGA narrative regarding the 2020 election results.
A message from President Harris on the events at the U.S. Capitol.
USD President James T. Harris III joined other Catholic university leaders in signing statements supporting DACA recipients and urging Congress to protect 'Dreamers' from deportation.
Notes: This was a direct response to the Trump administration's efforts to rescind DACA.
Support for DACA and opposition to restrictive immigration enforcement is a direct policy disagreement with a core MAGA pillar.
President Harris joins leaders in expressing support for DACA students.
USD is a member of the 'We Are Still In' coalition, a group of leaders committed to the Paris Agreement despite the Trump administration's withdrawal.
Directly joining a coalition designed to bypass and oppose a signature MAGA foreign policy decision (withdrawing from the Paris Accord) is a clear anti-MAGA signal.
University of San Diego is a signatory of the We Are Still In declaration.