Articles by Mat Gendle
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Mat Gendle and Amanda Tapler author essay on ethical concerns related to voluntourism programs
December 19, 2022
The director and associate director of Project Pericles at Elon published the essay in the journal, Tourism in Paradise
Mat Gendle and Amanda Tapler author article on student development in the Periclean Scholars Program
September 21, 2022
The director and associate director of Project Pericles at Elon published the report in the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
Elon faculty, staff members receive IN/CO grant from the Colonial Academic Alliance to support community-based learning efforts
February 24, 2022
This two-year award will support multi-institutional work to better prepare students and institutions to develop and sustain community-based learning initiatives.
Periclean Scholars serve as common reading peer-educators addressing racial inequality
October 7, 2021
As part of their sophomore Periclean coursework, members of the Periclean Scholars Class of 2024 created interactive exercises and discussion questions related to the Common Reading, and worked with fellow Elon students as peer-educators to facilitate engagement with this text.
Periclean Scholars Class of 2023 support local agricultural initiatives in Sri Lanka
September 9, 2021
This effort supports the work of Sarvodaya in an island-wide plan to promote local agriculture and increase food security and family income.
Motley and colleagues publish article in ‘The Global Impact Exchange: A Quarterly Publication of Diversity Abroad’
August 11, 2021
In this article, multiple faculty program leaders reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic forced a reimagining of the student global engagement opportunities they manage at Elon.
Periclean Scholars Class of 2021 co-author successful $715,000 grant from the National Children’s Alliance
May 17, 2021
These funds will be used to support the Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center in its critical advocacy work on Pine Ridge Reservation.
Gendle publishes essay on Sarvodaya social movement
January 20, 2021
In this essay, Director of Project Pericles and Professor of Psychology Mathew Gendle elevates Sri Lanka’s Sarvodaya movement as a model for populist solutions to governmental dysfunction in the U.S.
Gendle co-authors article on community tourism development efforts in Sri Lanka
October 16, 2020
The article by Mathew Gendle, director of Project Pericles and professor of psychology, will appear in the next issue of the journal Tourism in Paradise.