Mission

OUR MISSION:  To contribute to EKU's Quality Enhancement Plan by helping students become politically informed, critical, and creative thinkers who communicate effectively about issues of civic and political importance.

OUR GOAL:  To achieve our mission through a semester-long model citizens' assembly in which students become more civically engaged citizens while earning three hours of general education, major, or elective credit in POL 301.

OUR OBJECTIVES:  to help CACTUS participants, in their dual role as students and citizens, to

• explore all aspects of an issue of public policy;
• evaluate various ways of addressing the issue;
• expand their thinking to develop ideas for how to best address the problem;
• express their positions, through debate and deliberation, on the basis of shared knowledge and a commitment to achieving consensus as to a solution.