Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc., the ECI has awarded 40 new grants of up to $50,000 to 42 institutions seeking to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts of higher education.
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Recent highlights from three ECI grantees.
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On February 10, representatives from five women-serving institutions gathered at Salem College for a Women’s Colleges Convening on Gender, Leadership, Ethics, and Character.
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The Nathan O. Hatch Leader of Character Award honors an outstanding leader in higher education who has shown exceptional commitment to educating character at their institution and beyond.
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Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc., the ECI has awarded 12 grants to support individuals in developing their scholarly expertise in character education within higher education, expanding the pipeline of scholars doing research on character education in colleges and universities.
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“I felt a real energy around the importance of character in higher education,” said Michael Lamb, our executive director. “We often talk about character, but this conference showed how educators are really seeking to develop character in their own contexts.”
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The funding comes from a new $12.4 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. which will also support coaching, resources, and workshops for faculty across the country.
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Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc., the ECI awards Institutional Impact Grants of between $100,000 and $1,000,000 to higher-education institutions that wish to undertake a substantial and sustained effort to educate character in undergraduate populations across their institution.
Categories: Educating Character Initiative News
Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc., the ECI has awarded 41 grants of up to $50,000 to institutions seeking to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts of higher education.
Categories: Educating Character Initiative News
We look forward to the ways in which the recipients’ work will deepen our collective understanding of character and expand capacity to educate character in specific contexts.
Categories: Educating Character Initiative News