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Building on our Periclean campuses’ commitments to liberal arts education, civic engagement, and the humanities, Project Pericles is launching a new initiative: “Building Transformative Texts in Civic Education” supported by The Teagle Foundation and The Eugene M. Lang Foundation.  The project includes two convenings bringing together Periclean delegates to discuss the relevance of “transformative texts”—texts that give students the analytical tools and historical awareness to interrogate themselves, culture, and society—in civic education and the curriculum.  Project Pericles is pleased to announce that we have selected the delegates that will be participating in this exciting project: a distinguished cohort of 28 colleagues representing 18 Periclean institutions from across the nation. ​Delegates were nominated by Presidents and Provosts to represent their campuses. Delegates are deans, department chairs, and professors and hail from a range of disciplines across the liberal arts, particularly the humanities including: Art History, Dance, English, History, Philosophy, Religion, Theatre, Women’s and Gender Studies,

Project Pericles is delighted to announce that 10 faculty members representing 10 Periclean institutions were selected as part of Cohort III of  The Andrew W. Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program™ in the Humanities. This PFL program  connects the humanities with civic engagement in the classroom, on campus, in the community, and more expansively, in  society.  They will teach new, innovative courses  with a community-initiated project that addresses grand challenges including climate change, education access, immigration, mass incarceration, race and inequality, and voter engagement. This program is supported by The Andrew W.  Mellon  Foundation and The Eugene M. Lang Foundation. This new cohort are developing ambitious courses taught in Fall 2021-Spring 2022 that will make positive impacts on their local communities: ​ Robert Sanchez at Occidental College is proposing the country’s first undergraduate Latinx Philosophy course, where students will make Latinx philosophy teachings accessible at the local community library “Libros Schmibros” in East LA. Students will address immigration, education access and

Ten faculty members representing ten Periclean institutions were selected to teach new, innovative courses with a community-initiated project as part of Cohort II of The Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program in the STEM and Social Sciences, supported by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF) and The Eugene M. Lang Foundation. Students in these courses apply academic content to address grand challenges raised by community partners, and campuses develop meaningful partnerships with their local community. The newly selected AVDF Periclean Faculty Leaders (PFLs) in STEM and Social Sciences are proposing ambitious projects that will make a real difference for their local communities: ​ At Drew University, students in Minjoon Kouh’s “Capstone Seminar in Neuroscience and Physics” will create video presentations on exciting, cutting edge peer-reviewed science research to inspire local high school students with limited educational access through a partnership with Students 2 Science.  Lin Winton at Carleton College will collaborate with Growing Up Healthy, in her “Data Visualization as Activism” course. Students will learn, interpret and