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Learn, share, and engage with us at the Building Communities of Character Conference

Learn, share, and engage with us at the Building Communities of Character Conference

Whether you’re new to conversations about educating character or have been engaged in these discussions for years, we welcome your presence in the ECI Community.

Our educational efforts are designed to be responsive to questions emerging from within the ECI Community and to help advance strategies for collective learning that reflect and respond to our members’ understanding of character in context. Through our community-building efforts, we engage with individuals and institutions to cultivate relationships, collaboration, and shared purpose. Our team connects across sectors and perspectives to create communities of practice for practitioners, scholars, and advocates of character education in higher education. Through formal and informal gatherings, networking events, and conversations, we provide a space for meaningful dialogue and growth.

Our research team and character scholars pursue emerging ideas and critical questions, ensuring our approach remains dynamic, informed, and impactful. We make resources available to the ECI Community, while seeking to highlight colleges and universities across the nation as exemplars of how institutions can develop character in distinct ways.

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Research and Scholarship

Learn more about how the ECI Research and Scholarship Team studies character and how it is shaped in higher education.

Research and Scholarship

Resources and Learning Opportunities

Engage with us through webinars, book clubs, workshops, convenings, on-demand recordings, and our Character Commons platform. Browse resources from Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character.

Resources and Learning Opportunities

Read ECI News and Stories

Learn with ECI Community members and staff as they share stories, research, and insights on integrating character education within their distinctive institutional contexts, curricula, and cultures.

Read ECI News and Stories