The Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program™

The PFL Program is a faculty leadership and course development program. Through innovative curricula, Periclean Faculty Leaders (PFLs) create experiences that equip students to transform our political and social landscape.

Program highlights:
  • Faculty develop, teach, and evaluate a new course that integrates a community-based project. PFLs collaborate with a community partner to help solve an issue that the community partner has identified. This is a powerful opportunity for place-based learning and strengthening the campus/community relationship.  
  • Advance public scholarship through publications, workshops, and conference presentations.
  • Professional development with other civically engaged scholars across the nation through virtual convenings and peer collaboration. Each PFL is paired with a PFL at a different institution promoting conversation and structured feedback.

Explore PFL work: Periclean Faculty Leaders' course syllabi and descriptions of their work can be found on our Civic Engagement Resources Database. 

History: Project Pericles has more than 100 PFLs and their courses across the humanities, STEM, and social sciences. The PFL Program is funded by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Mellon Foundation, and The Eugene M. Lang Foundation. In 2019, The Mellon Foundation awarded $500,000 to support a PFL Program in the Humanities. In 2020, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF) awarded $300,000 to support a PFL Program in STEM and Social Sciences. In 2022, Mellon awarded $900,000 for a new initiative including an expanded PFL Program integrating voter engagement. Past funders of the PFL Program include The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Endeavor Foundation, The Eugene M. Lang Foundation, and The Teagle Foundation.
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