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Project Pericles Releases 2026-2028 Strategic Plan: “Shaping Civic Futures”

Project Pericles has unveiled Shaping Civic Futures, our 2026–2028 Strategic Plan to reimagine higher education’s role in strengthening democracy. Through three priorities (Pedagogical Influence, Consortium Strength, and Thought Leadership) we aim to renew civic learning as a defining feature of American higher education and ensure civic agency and engagement become defining outcomes for every student.

October 6, 2025

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Ten Faculty Awarded AVDF PFL Grants for Innovative Community Collaborations and STEM/Social Sciences Courses

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

June 15, 2021

Reaffirming Our Commitment to Democracy

As we grapple with the insurrection at the Capitol, Project Pericles remains committed to supporting the essential civic engagement and advocacy work of our students, staff, faculty, provosts, and presidents. Our mission of graduating students to be engaged and socially responsible civic leaders continues to be critical to ensuring the health of our democracy and society. Reflecting on his founding of our organization, Eugene M. Lang wrote in A Daring Work in Progress, “Project Pericles conceptually asks higher education, and specifically all Pericleans, to join in a coherent and comprehensive effort to fulfill a long-range social mission preventing the erosion of the core values of our democratic society— or, as some would say, recapturing and preserving them.” While it is with a heavy heart to see an erosion of our nation’s core values, we will continue to work with our campuses, and higher education more generally, to protect and recapture democracy.

January 7, 2021