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Art, Empathy, and Immigration: Hostile Terrain 94 Conversations at Wagner College

4/29/2025

 
On Monday, April 28, 2025, Wagner College hosted the opening of an exhibit titled Hostile Terrain 94 Conversations. As one of over 150 locations to host the participatory art project organized by the Undocumented Migration Project, the exhibit functioned as a capstone for the course The Body, the Arts, and Shared Heritage, taught by professors Celeste Gagnon of the Anthropology Department and Sarah Scott of the Visual Arts Department. Students in the course had the opportunity to learn through community engagement experiences while working with community partners Catholic Charities and La Colemna. ​

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Event Recap: Teaching Creativity to Inspire Social Good with the center for artistic activism

4/24/2025

 
On Thursday, April 17, 2025, Project Pericles joined forces anew with our wonderful partner The Center for Artistic Activism to co-host Teaching Creativity to Inspire Social Good. This rousing webinar focused on how creativity is a powerful tool for civic engagement and inspiring social good, uplifting the work of two extraordinary educators, Periclean Faculty Leader and Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Elon University, Shannon Zenner and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at Point Park University, D.T. Burns.

During the event, participants:
  • Heard from faculty about how they’ve used innovative creative expression in the classroom
  • Learned how students have been inspired to engage with civic issues in meaningful and joyful ways — like through a giant pierogi mascot and the ethical use of AI.
  • Received practical resources to implement in their own work.

We were pleased to have so many faculty and staff from across the Periclean and C4AA network join us this inspiring webinar and hope all emerged with some creative, catalytic ideas for ways to draw upon the arts to help students feel that they can effect positive change and to get involved in consistent civic action. Thank you to all who attended and to Shannon, DL, and C4AA for the phenomenal work you do!
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The April Periclean

4/4/2025

 
COMPACT25, Skidmore Spotlight, Sustainability, and more.
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Skidmore College Turns Passion into Action through Public Policy Competition

4/2/2025

 
College students have the drive and desire to change the world but often need to be provided with clear paths to make an impact. Skidmore College’s annual Make Your Voice Heard Public Policy Prize Competition bridges this gap. Designed to turn passion into tangible action, the competition teaches students that civic engagement is more than casting a ballot - it's about using their voice to shape policy and improve communities. By researching pressing issues, writing to officials, and proposing real solutions, students gain the confidence and skills to advocate for change.

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Exploring Food Waste and Farming Policy: Professor Berry’s Dialogues in Environmental Studies

3/31/2025

 
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This Week’s faculty in focus is Brieanne Berry, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.

As a two-time Civic Engagement Fellow, Professor Berry has developed and adapted resources for deliberative dialogues, helping students explore complex environmental policy issues through multiple perspectives. She even contributed a new deliberative dialogue on wasted food for Project Pericles’ Deliberative Dialogue Topics and Prompts.


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Project Pericles Welcomes nearly 50 New Civic Engagement Mini-Grant Recipients!

3/31/2025

 
Project Pericles is thrilled to announce we have awarded 49 new Civic Engagement Mini-Grant to faculty and staff who are empowering students to engage with public issues in inclusive and collaborative ways, fostering deeper civic participation. Grants are supporting innovative civic projects across 21 states and at 46 institutions including Pericleans, private liberal arts colleges, public universities, minority serving institutions, and community colleges.
From using birdwatching to spark conversations around feminism and immigration, to exploring voting rights through the lens of the food business at a culinary institute, each Fellow is implementing a unique innovative project to help students gain critical skills for life-long civic leadership, while drawing upon and contributing to our Civic Engagement Resources.

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Digging into Nature: How Environmental Literature Can Reshape Our Understanding of Today’s Ecological Challenges

3/25/2025

 
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This week’s Faculty in Focus is Eric Dean Wilson, an English Professor at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. 

In his Fall 2024 U.S. Environmental Literature course, Professor Wilson and his students partnered with two local institutions - Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens and The Alice Austen House. The course, part of the Periclean Faculty Leadership program, explored “the rhetoric of nature,” examining how non-human nature is represented in literature. It also challenges the idea that today’s environmental concerns are unprecedented, instead reframing them as long-standing issues that have shaped American culture for centuries. Through an analysis of select literary works, students gained insight into how environmental challenges have persisted over time and how artists have engaged with these issues to shape cultural narratives.


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Webinar Recap: Technology Empowered Dialogue with Unify America and Dr. Emily Stacey

3/18/2025

 
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Did you know that 64% of students say they don’t have the opportunity to have face-to-face conversations with people who hold different perspectives?(1) Project Pericles’ deliberative dialogue resources and Unify America’s digital platform are working to change that. 

On Friday, March 14, Project Pericles hosted a webinar, Technology Empowered Dialogue: Within and Beyond the Classroom, in collaboration with Unify America to explore how faculty can engage in meaningful dialogue across political divides. Dr. Emily Stacey, a Periclean Civic Engagement Fellow and Political Science professor at Rose State College, shared how she integrates Unify America’s tools to complement Project Pericles’ deliberative dialogue modules into her courses: Intro to Mass Media and American Federal Government. She facilitated dialogues around hyperpartisanship and mass incarceration and also explained how her tactics for implementing dialogues both in asynchronous platforms, like using online discussion forums and real-time dialogues, can be incorporated across disciplines beyond political science. The Project Pericles deliberative dialogue modules, for example, have several discussion topics and resources across courses in business, the humanities, STEM, and social sciences.


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History, Sovereignty, and Civic Engagement

3/18/2025

 
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This week’s Faculty in Focus is Joe Hall, Associate Professor of History at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. 

Through his course, Wabanaki History in Maine, Professor Hall demonstrates the power of community-engaged education - bridging historical scholarship with civic impact. 

Although a 2001 state law mandates that Maine public schools teach Wabanaki history, many schools still lack the resources to fully implement it. “Wabanaki”-- meaning “People of the Dawnland”-- collectively refers to the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet (or Wolastoqiyik), Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki peoples, which are the Indigenous communities of present-day northern New England, southern Quebec, and Canadian Maritime provinces. Seeing this gap, Professor Hall saw an opportunity to take action. Partnering with Auburn Middle School and Maine Online Open-Source Education (MOOSE) project, he and his students worked to develop accessible, high-quality educational materials that could help local schools integrate Wabanaki history into their curricula. 


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Fostering Civil Discourse: Dr. Emily Stacey’s Commitment to Deliberative Dialogue in Political Science

3/10/2025

 
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This week’s faculty in focus is Dr. Emily Stacey, Professor of Political Science and Program Coordinator at Rose State College. 

As a Periclean Fellow, Dr. Stacey integrated deliberative dialogues into two political science courses.

The first course, Introduction to Mass Media & Politics, provided a comprehensive survey of both international and American media systems, exploring traditional and digital media and their role in shaping civic participation and political behavior. The second course, American Federal Government offered an overview of key constitutional principles, major U.S. political institutions, and contemporary political issues. 

Both courses featured deliberative dialogues on four key topics: reducing hyperpartisanship, censorship legislation and free speech, youth and economic opportunity, and voting rights for incarcerated individuals. Using prompts and resources from our deliberative dialogue modules, students conducted independent research to develop informed perspectives. Class discussions encouraged them to explore these issues, consider diverse viewpoints, and assess potential political actions. Through this process, students became more confident in engaging in civil discourse.

 Reflecting on the value of deliberative dialogue, Dr. Stacey shared, “Discourse is key to a democracy, but can be daunting and intimidating in the hyperpolarized political environment that we live in. Deliberative Dialogue modules allow students to approach issues from different perspectives, grounded in fact- based information, and convey their opinions and thoughts to their peers. This experience makes them more willing to do so in the greater community and democracy.”

Dr. Stacey’s work demonstrates the power of deliberative dialogue in fostering thoughtful, respectful conversations about complex issues. By creating spaces where students can explore diverse perspectives and engage in meaningful discussions, she is helping to prepare the next generation of informed empathetic citizens ready to participate in our democracy.

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