Project Pericles Inc.

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“Project pericles is an association of colleges and universities that encourages and facilitates commitments to include social responsibility and participatory citizenship as essential elements of their educational programs. Project pericles is committed to reawakening american undergraduate education to its responsibility to prepare students to be effective citizens and leaders of their communities, nations, and world. We collaborate with colleges and universities to infuse civic engagement elements across the curriculum, ensuring the successful integration of theory and practice. At each institution, we work with program directors and faculty members to develop rigorous programs in their classrooms, on their campuses, and in their communities. Through national conferences, workshops, and meetings, project pericles brings together individuals, teams, and community members from different colleges and universities and surrounding communities. Project pericles offers opportunities for students, faculty, staff, administrators, presidents, alumni, and community members working on civic engagement projects on different campuses to come together to share ideas, collaborate, and inspire each other. Our annual workshop series on civic engagement trains hundreds of college students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and community leaders. Through our presentations at national conferences, we share best practices with hundreds of faculty and staff members across the country. Through publications and web resources we make research on best practices and over 100 innovative course syllabi available to college faculty and other interested educators.”

“Project pericles is an association of american colleges and universities committed to reawakening american undergraduate education to its responsibility to prepare students to be effective citizens and leaders of their communities, nations, and world. We believe that alongside equipping students with the content and skills required for success in their careers, higher education must develop their capacity and motivation for critical examination of the priorities that societies set; for informed evaluation of policies and actions in the light of those priorities; and for making a personal difference, through and beyond their careers, towards realizing those priorities. If undergraduate education does not make this broader responsibility more central to its mission, it will, we fear, fail to prepare the leadership our democracy and world need and may place at long-term risk the future of our democracy itself. Through the courses they offer, the community-based experiences and opportunities for service they design, and the campus policies and practices they set, pericleans institutions, individually and collaboratively, explore, develop, and model means through which they and fellow undergraduate institutions can deliver on this educational imperative.”

“Debating for democracy (d4d) is a campus-based program that represents the mission of project pericles in action. D4d promotes civic engagement and effective advocacy skills among college students. Through d4d on the road workshops hosted on periclean campuses, the d4d national conference in new york city, the d4d letters to an elected official competition, and co-curricular programs on each campus, students acquire the tools and tactics they need to advance their issues and to get their messages across to community groups, students, government officials, and the media. The periclean faculty leadership (pfl) program is a leadership and course development program dedicated to incorporating civil dialogue, civic engagement, and social responsibility across the undergraduate curriculum in a wide range of disciplines. Periclean faculty leaders create new courses incorporating civic engagement; promote civil dialogue locally through lectures, town hall meetings, and public events; and advance public scholarship nationally and internationally through publications and conference presentations. We conduct multi-campus initiatives and research projects on civic engagement; foster collaboration and convene colleges, universities, and leading experts in higher education; and present our work at national conferences. One multi-campus initiative, creating curricular coherence: through inquiry-based curricula and thematic pathways, has campuses designing streamlined and integrative curricular pathways within majors, interdepartmental initiatives, and institutional requirements. Our goal is efficient and cohesive educational experiences that integrate academic learning, civic engagement, and preparation for life after college; and to share innovative curricular designs with the higher education community.”