What’s New

  • 📒 The Educating Character Initiative is now inviting U.S. colleges and universities to join a broad and diverse community of individuals and institutions to strengthen the understanding, integration, and education of character in undergraduate institutions.
    NEW: Learn about the first 13 recipients of individual ECI grants.
    Learn more and apply for a grant.
    Register for online workshops on how to educate character in the university.
  • 🍽️ The Service and Supper Mini-Grant application is now open! The Service and Supper Mini-Grant provides $50-$500 grants to support events held by WFU Graduate and Professional Schools Student Organizations. Apply today!
  • 🗣 Interest Groups are back! Join us as we reflect on issues of leadership and character in relation to special topics. Sign up for a group by Wednesday, March 20 here.
  • 🎓 Wake Forest Faculty & Staff Grants: We’re now accepting applications for four different types of financial support, available to WFU faculty and staff. The deadline to apply is April 8.
  • 🚨 Con Artists and Character: Learn more about a Wake Forest course that looked into virtues, vices, and fraud.

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Our Mission

The Program for Leadership and Character inspires, educates, and empowers leaders of character to serve humanity. Through innovative teaching, creative programming, and cutting-edge research, we aim to transform the lives of students, foster an inclusive culture of leadership and character at Wake Forest, and catalyze a broader public conversation that places character at the center of leadership.

Over the last decade, Wake Forest faculty have become leading experts in the study of character. The Program for Leadership and Character is now using this groundbreaking research to develop creative, liberal arts-based programming to transform the lives of our students.

We are excited to share who we are and what we aspire to do. We hope you will join us in this effort.



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Courses

We teach courses on leadership and character and equip others to develop relevant courses.

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College Programming

Our outside-the-classroom programs equip students to develop the character needed to lead with integrity.

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Professional Schools

Our efforts in the professional schools prepare students to be leaders and professionals of character.

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Conferences

We host conferences to facilitate broader reflection on leadership and character beyond Wake Forest.

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C2C

Learn more about yourself and others through a Call to Conversation.

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Research

We use rigorous research to assess our programs and share our results.