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Berea College faculty receive grants for courses teaching civic engagement

9/4/07
Berea College’s Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (CELTS) is pleased to announce that four courses to be offered during the 2007-2008 academic year have received designation and funding as Project Pericles’s Civic Engagement Courses.  The $2,000 grant per course funds curriculum development and related activities for the faculty members teaching the courses, which were selected from among those submitted by twenty-two Project Pericles member colleges.  Courses were evaluated for creativity, connection to civic responsibility, academic rigor, an evaluation plan, and applicability to future years and others campuses.

The selected Berea College courses and faculty are:  “Political Communication,” taught by assistant professor of speech communications Billy Wooten; “Politics of Food,” professors Peggy Rivage-Seul, women’s studies director, and Chad Berry, director of the Berea College Appalachian Center; “Questioning of Authority,” psychology and general studies professor Dave Porter, and  “Seminar in Modern European History—Social Responses to Poverty,” taught by Rebecca Bates, assistant professor of history.

Project Pericles, Inc.is a not-for-profit organization that encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community.  The Civic Engagement Course grants are funded by The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, The Teagle Foundation, and Project Pericles.

Professor Meta Mendel-Reyes, CELTS director, serves as the director of Project Pericles at Berea College.  While Dr. Mendel-Reyes is on sabbatical for the fall 2007 semester, CELTS interim director Betty Hibler can be contacted for additional information about the program at (859)985-3936.
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Betty Hibler, interim director
Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (859) 985-3936