Twenty-five years in, Project Pericles aims to be intimate and influential, supporting deep community-engaged civic learning on our member campuses and shaping the field through partnerships.
In the October Periclean, Campus Compact President Bobbie Laur and Bringing Theory to Practice Director David Scobey look back at how collaboration helped bring community-engaged learning into the fabric of higher education, and ahead to what this precarious moment asks of the field.
Also in this edition:
- Four new consortium members: Franklin & Marshall, Ramapo, Washington and Lee, and Macaulay Honors College at CUNY
- A new $1,000 Periclean Community News Champions pilot with the Center for Community News, open to faculty in any discipline
- Upcoming workshops, including “Facilitating Dialogue Across Difference” with Rhodes College on October 16
- A tribute to Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, longtime Co-Chair of the Project Pericles Advisory Board
- Thought leadership from across the Periclean network
- What our staff is reading this month