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Project Pericles and Up to Us are concluding a successful 2021-2022 Up to Us Voting Modules Fellowship Program supporting 36 deliberative dialogue discussions across 34 campuses reaching more than 2,300 students. The program supported faculty with a mini-grant to incorporate a deliberative dialogue discussion into a course. The discussion empowers students to explore policy solutions to pressing civic issues (affordable healthcare, climate change, racial and income inequity, student debt) while respectfully engaging in civil dialogue with others who have differing viewpoints–a much needed skill in this polarized environment. Faculty used the Project Pericles Voting Modules to support this work. We are delighted that in addition to our Periclean campuses, the Fellowship Awards supported dialogues in our other partner networks including community colleges, large public universities, small private liberal arts colleges, and minority serving institutions, among others. Faculty fellows represent a diverse range of disciplines including: Africana Studies, Data Analytics, Education, Gerontology, Journalism, Political Science, Sociology,

 Project Pericles, in collaboration with Up to Us, is excited to share that a diverse cohort of 26 faculty have received a 2020-2021 Up to Us Voting Modules Fellowship Award. This fellowship supports faculty with a $500 award as they empower students to 1) explore solutions to pressing issues (affordable healthcare, climate change, racial equity, student debt) to help ensure their futures are economically and socially secure and 2) gain skills to become life-long fiscal thinkers and civic leaders. This cohort includes six Up to Us Voting Modules Senior Fellows (“Senior Fellows”) serving as discussion leaders and peer mentors. The six Senior Fellows are: Joseph Cutrone (Goucher College), Sean Diament (Swarthmore College), Heather Evans (University of Virginia at Wise), Bernadette Ludwig (Wagner College), Sandy Marshall (Elon University), and Doron Taussig (Ursinus College). ​Up to Us Voting Modules fellows diverse cohort from the Periclean consortium and other partner campuses across the nation. Faculty represent a diverse range

To help youth voters participate in their democracy with confidence, Project Pericles joins hundreds of partners to celebrate National Voter Education Week (“NVEW”), a digital campaign to equip communities with all of the information they need to be informed, confident, and prepared voters. ​ Running this year from Monday, October 4th through Friday, October 8th, NVEW 2021 aims to help communities build on the 2020 election’s historic turnout levels – which were reached despite a global pandemic – by helping to spread voter education among our Periclean campuses, their communities, and other collaborators around the country. National Voter Education Week helps voters bridge the gap between registering to vote and actually casting a ballot. During this week of interactive education, Project Pericles will help disseminate information to help voters find their polling location, understand their ballot, and make a plan to vote in person or by mail. Resources from NVEW are