Global Prize for Collaborative Social Leadership
This short video highlights the Periclean Scholars program at Elon University and is part of an application for the 2013 Kalamazoo College Global Prize for Collaborative Social Leadership.
We hope applying for this honor will bring attention to the PS program and hopefully encourage other institutions to consider creating similar pathways for their students. We know from both quantitative and qualitative assessment data of our now ten-year old program that there is significant long-term career/life impact on our students. This impact is matched by equally impressive evidence of concrete and long-term influences on our many partners. Our program is a model of collaboration on all levels: within cohorts as they navigate their three years, between cohorts both past and present, and most importantly between our scholars, their Mentors and our myriad global partners. We believe that the call to action in the January 2012 publication “A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy’s Future” is and has been responded to in full by this program and that it represents the type of architectural change within higher education that has the potential to nurture generations of inclusive social justice leaders while simultaneously having real and sustainable impact across the world.
From the Kalamazoo College web site:
The Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership seeks entries that:
- Demonstrate transformational thinking and commitments in its leadership structure;
- Build the voices and leadership of those affected to take strategic action;
- Attack root causes; and
- Contribute to building movements for justice by making connections across gender, race, age, sexuality, ability, issue, nation, organization, religion and political point of view.
20 finlists will be announced on April 20th.
Many thanks to our friend and colleague Dr. Ahmed Fadaam for editing the footage shot by Ashlee McCoullock. Also thanks to Pericleans Chris Carmichael, ’12 and to Jennie Proto, ’13 for being interviewed for this video. Special thanks also to Catherine Parsons for a wide array of support.
Soundtrack compliments of Head Chemists (JD Parsons).
Follow