The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University

What’s New

Here’s how Wake Forest students and others can plug in to Leadership and Character:

🎓 Our first class of Leadership and Character Scholars has graduated. Here’s what some of them said about their time with our Program.
🏆 Leadership and Character Scholar Iyana Trotman helped the Wake Forest Debate team win the 2023 National Debate Tournament. Read the full story here.
📚 We are offering summer and fall courses that will help you dive into deep questions next semester. Read more about our classes here.
🗣 The Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded Wake Forest a $30.7 million grant to support our Program and create a national higher education network devoted to educating character. Read the full story here.

💼 We’re Hiring! See open positions here.

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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.