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 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

Project Pericles today joined forces with dozens of higher education and student success organizations to announce a “Shared Commitment” to make “Democracy Learning a Top Priority for Postsecondary Education.” Democracy faces monumental challenges in the U.S. and world-wide. And in this pivotal era, “Shared Commitment’ calls on the higher education community to take concerted action to help build Americans’ readiness to tackle urgent public problems, together. Urging “equity-committed civic learning,” the “Shared Commitment” signatories call for civic inquiry, practice in civil discourse, and collaborative work on real-world public problems to be part of each postsecondary student’s educational pathway. Jan Liss, Executive Director of Project Pericles, shared, “Eugene Lang founded Project Pericles to reinforce higher education’s responsibility to prepare students to be effective citizens and leaders of their communities, nations, and world. Project Pericles and our colleges and universities, remain committed to democracy as a top priority in undergraduate education. Our programs empower