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Project Pericles is excited to announce the winners of the Spring 2024 Debating for Democracy (D4D) Letter to an Elected Official Competition. This year, we have winners from Pitzer College in California, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and Wagner College in New York. Student teams won $500 to advocate for policy changes addressing public safety, education rights and racial equity, and sustainability. Congratulations!
The new year has started strong. Last month, Project Pericles held two compelling sessions at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting, making it 18 years in a row that Project Pericles has presented at this prestigious venue.
After nearly two decades of leading Project Pericles to its place of leadership in American higher education, I am announcing my intention to retire as Executive Director effective Spring 2024.
Project Pericles is ending 2023 on a high note. We invite you to read about exciting updates to our programs that empower faculty, students, administrators, and their communities to advance democratic and civic engagement.
Project Pericles launched redesigned and expanded Civic Engagement Resources for faculty and staff available free on our new website. Materials include an interactive database with 100+ civic engagement syllabi and modules for deliberative dialogue, voter engagement, and addressing voter suppression.
A panel of Periclean faculty presented an engaging panel, "The Power of Collaborations: A Multi-Perspective Conversation" at the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting May 31 - June 2, 2023, in Boston. The room was packed with administrators, faculty, staff, students, and nonprofit partners all interested in learning how to advance and overcome obstacles to community-engaged learning in the classroom.
Project Pericles presented two energizing panels “Creating Curricula, Empowering Communities” and “Collaborating for a Healthy Democracy” at The American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) 2023 Annual Meeting held in San Francisco January 18-20. With both a 75-minute and a 60-minute panel, an honor to have two chosen by the AAC&U’s selective process. This was a valuable opportunity to share the incredible work of nine Periclean Faculty Leaders–each of whom develop innovative curricula that create experiences that equip students to transform our political and social landscape.
The Mellon Foundation awarded $900,000 to Project Pericles for a new initiative supporting faculty to integrate voter education and social justice issues into humanities curricula through deliberative dialogues and community-initiated projects. The three-year initiative, “Curricula for Social Change: Empowering College Faculty, Students, and Communities for Voter Engagement,” will support more than 200 faculty and expand our reach beyond our 29 Periclean member colleges and universities.
Four faculty members representing four Periclean institutions were selected to develop, teach, and evaluate a new humanities course incorporating a community-initiated project as part of the Mellon Foundation Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program™ in the Humanities. This exciting program connects the humanities and liberal arts learning to challenges facing the wider campus community and society more broadly.
Project Pericles is delighted to announce that four faculty members representing four Periclean institutions were selected as part of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF) Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program in STEM and Social Sciences. In collaboration with a community partner, they will teach a new, innovative course that incorporates a project that addresses a problem identified by the community.
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