More than 240,000 volunteers have come from 3,000 colleges and universities since Peace Corps was established in 1961.

The United States will resume a long-suspended Peace Corps program in the North Pacific island of Palau as the Biden administration continues moves to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.

The Peace Corps says it'll start sending volunteers overseas again in mid-March after it evacuated them from posts around the world two years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

NEW YORK The late Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps' founding director and an architect of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, left behind at least one unfinished project. RosettaBooks announced Tuesday that it had acquired Shriver's memoir We Called It a War, which he worked on in the late 1960s and was only recently rediscovered. Klebanoff is a close friend of Bill Josephson, who was the Peace Corps' founding general counsel and wrote the book's foreword. Shriver published a 1964 book, Point of the Lance, about his years with the Peace Corps, and books about him include a memoir by his son, Mark Shriver, and an acclaimed biography by Scott Stossel. We Called It a War was spotted among his personal papers at the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.

ANN ARBOR – The Peace Corps announced Wednesday its rankings for the top 10 metropolitan areas with the highest number of volunteers per capita, and Ann Arbor came in at No. Currently, 33 volunteers from Ann Arbor are serving worldwide. Ann Arbor has placed in the top 10 for highest-producing metropolitan areas per capita of Peace Corps volunteers since 2017. Ann Arbor, Michigan – 9.6Most of these cities are also college towns. The Peace Corps was founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to send Americans abroad to engage with and serve communities around the world.