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Public Policy Issues Database

As "a non-partisan, interdisciplinary organization dedicated to preparing students to serve as responsible and educated leaders in a democratic society," the Public Policy Issues Database works to provide detailed background on pressing public issues and the organizations that shape the policy to deal with them.

Organized into campus, city, state, national, and international organizations and issues, the database is a concerted effort to help students fully explore public policy issues.

Southern Utah University

Organizations

Board of Trustees: The Board of Trustees is the ultimate decision-making body on campus.

Administration: The administration is responsible for handling the financial and academic demands of the university.

Faculty Senate: The Faculty Senate works with the Deans' Council in representing faculty members concerning the creation of university-wide policies.

Deans' Council: The Deans' Council works alongside the Faculty Senate in recommending university policy issues relating to academics.

SUU Staff Association: The SUU Staff Association is the organization of staff members on campus, excluding faculty and faculty supervisors.

SUU Student Association: The SUU Student Association, SUUSA, is the official student organization to which all SUU students belong.

Issues

Tuition and Fees: Tuition is what students are required to pay to attend SUU, covering the costs left to the university by what the Utah Legislature does not fund.

Cedar City/Iron County

Organizations

- City Council

- Mayor

- Chamber of Commerce

- County Commission

Issues

- Water

- Development

Utah

Organizations

- State Legislature

- Governor

- State Supreme Court

- Board of Regents

- State Political Parties

Issues

- Higher Education Funding

United States of America

Organizations

- U.S. Congress

- President

- U.S. Supreme Court

- National Political Parties

Issues

- Immigration

International

Organizations

United Nations: The United Nations, with headquarters in New York City, is the central organization in a sea of governmental and nongovernmental international organizations.

World Trade Organization: The World Trade Organization (WTO) -- based in Geneva, Switzerland -- seeks to breakdown barriers to trade and promote worldwide economic prosperity.

World Bank: The World Bank is an international organization that provides financial assistance for developing countries and the poorest nations in the world, seeking to rid the world of poverty.

International Monetary Fund: The Internation Monetary Fund (IMF) seeks to keep the world economy healthy through maintenance and promotion of proper monetary and financial policies.

Issues

Globalization: Buzz-word, point of contention, and modern phenomenon -- globalization is an umbrella description of the world's shrinking thanks to technological advances in communication and transportation.

Global Governance: Global governance is not world government. World government would make global governance unnecessary. Global governance addresses issues that are global in nature, thanks principally to the phenomenon of globalization, and thus impossible for a single nation-state to solve unilaterally.

Human Rights: Perhaps no issue is so easily identified as a common, fundamental international concern than "human rights," to the point where the age-old sovereignty doctrine of non-interference has been thrown out in favor of protecting human rights.

Democratization: Democracy, colloquially defined to describe rule by the will of the people whether directly or through elected representatives, is the dominant form of government in the world -- whether real or pretended.

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