Ben Klutsey, director of Academic Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, presents CRC Program Coordinator Audrey Haley with the Moonshot Award
Lee University’s Center for Responsible Citizenship was awarded a $10,000 Moonshot Award at the annual Summit for University Leaders in Arlington, Va.
The Summit is hosted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and this is its first year offering the Moonshot Award for Excellence in University Center Innovation.
Finalists this year included the Gwartney Institute at Ottawa University, the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise at Oklahoma State University, the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University, and the Center for Responsible Citizenship at Lee University. The winner was voted on by other Center Leaders at the conclusion of the Summit.
“We are thrilled to see our early work recognized at a national level,” said Lee’s CRC director, Dr. Thomas Pope. “I’m excited to see how this award will benefit both our students and the broader Cleveland community as we continue to promote conversation about citizenship firmly grounded in virtue.”
The Center for Responsible Citizenship aims to cultivate a healthy vision of political life, where “politics” is a framework of dialogue, mores, and institutions that teach what it means to pursue the good life, together. This study is guided and informed by a deep commitment to the Christian faith, which understands the human good as connected to a robust vision of persons made in the image of God.
August marks the CRC’s one-year anniversary at Lee University. This year, the CRC will host a Constitution Day Quiz Bowl for regional high school students on Sept. 16 and an intercollegiate symposium on Institutions and Inheritance on Oct. 7-8.
For more information about the CRC and its upcoming events, please email crc@leeuniversity.edu.