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The Mellon Foundation awarded $900,000 to Project Pericles for a new initiative supporting faculty to integrate voter education and social justice issues into humanities curricula through deliberative dialogues and community-initiated projects. The three-year initiative, “Curricula for Social Change: Empowering College Faculty, Students, and Communities for Voter Engagement,” will support more than 200 faculty and expand our reach beyond our 29 Periclean member colleges and universities. ​The initiative will support more than 50 colleges and universities across the country, with a focus on campuses serving historically underrepresented groups. By incorporating academic content with civic issues students are passionate about, this initiative will transform the lives of hundreds of faculty, thousands of students, and more than 50 communities by empowering them with the skills and resources necessary to build a more inclusive and equitable society. The initiative takes a four-pronged approach to strengthen curricula through programs that center voter engagement and civically engaged inclusive pedagogy. All four complementary

Four faculty members representing four Periclean institutions were selected to develop, teach, and evaluate a new humanities course incorporating a community-initiated project as part of  the Mellon Foundation Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program™ in the Humanities. This exciting program connects the humanities and liberal arts learning to challenges facing the wider campus community and society more broadly. In PFL courses, students apply course-content to address real-word problems in their local community. Courses address one or more grand challenges: Climate Change, Education Access, Immigration, Mass Incarceration, Race and Inequality, and Voter Engagement. These four Periclean Faculty Leaders are joining more than 50 other Periclean Faculty Leaders (PFLs) in the Humanities at colleges and universities across the nation. The Mellon PFL Program in the Humanities is supporting PFL courses in 2019-2023. Project Pericles provides a grant of $4,000 for each PFL to support these civic engagement activities on their campus and in their communities. This program is supported by the Mellon Foundation and The Eugene M. Lang Foundation. Among the newly awarded Periclean Faculty Leaders, we are excited that their community partners range from an environmental nonprofit to a local library

Project Pericles is delighted to announce that four faculty members representing four Periclean institutions were selected as part of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF) Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program in STEM and Social Sciences. In collaboration with a community partner, they will teach a new, innovative course that incorporates a project that addresses a problem identified by the community. These four Periclean Faculty Leaders are joining more than 25 other Periclean Faculty Leaders (PFLs) in STEM and Social Sciences at colleges and universities across the nation. The AVDF PFL Program in STEM and Social Sciences is supporting PFL courses in 2020-2023. PFL courses with community-initiated projects address society’s grand challenges: Climate Change, Education Access, Immigration, Mass Incarceration, Public Health, Race and Inequality, and Voter Engagement. This program is creating a cadre of civically engaged scholars that will affect students, faculty, campuses, and their communities for years to come.  This powerful