A Leadership and Character-led course helps students explore how hope and imagination can help make the world a better place. Hope is more than just wishing for something to get better. “It’s a catalyst for action,” says Daniel Henry, an assistant teaching professor in […]
Kal Wuor (’28) used creativity to find a unique way to help students connect with their character.
A pre-orientation program helping students find community and reflect on the ways they can have an impact at Wake Forest by leading with character. When incoming first-year students begin L.E.A.P., our pre-orientation program, they’re asked one question: “Who do you want to be?” L.E.A.P., which […]
When Geetika Verma arrived at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, she needed help to navigate her new surroundings. Afterward, she used what she learned to create a guidebook to help others. Geetika Verma (’28 MD) is a second-year M.D. student and member of the […]
The ECI will extend its impact on character education across the country by offering a new round of grants in 2027 for U.S higher education institutions with support from a nearly $44 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will also enable ECI to award additional grants in 2026.
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Leadership and Character in the Law Scholars take a trip through Germany to discover the tension between the German laws of the past that enabled atrocities and the growth since then that enabled empathy and compassion in modern lawmaking. In March, 10 Leadership and Character […]
Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires visited Wake Forest, then created a series of sessions that helped faculty reach students by redesigning their courses. Back in 2024, character experts from the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires attended our “Character across the Curriculum” workshop. Then, they […]
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Every other year, our Leadership and Character Scholars spend a week in London and Oxford to explore leadership, culture, and character in a global context. Last month’s trip, supported by the Jenkins Charitable Foundation, opened with a walking and bus tour of post-colonial London […]
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The Program for Leadership and Character partnered with the Wake Forest Department of Theatre and Dance to develop a course that aims to cultivate acting students’ ability to develop their characters from the standpoint of character virtues. “Part of what sets actors apart is that […]
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The grant from the Kern Family Foundation will enable the Wake Forest University School of Law and the Program for Leadership and Character to sustain campus-based initiatives while also paving the way for a network of law schools committed to leadership and character in the […]
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