Our recommendations for newsletters about character and character formation
One of our primary goals at the ECI is to create spaces for collective learning. We often receive requests for recommendations that can enhance our shared work to educate character. We’ve already compiled our webinar recordings with resources created and curated by the Program for Leadership and Character. In the months to come, we will be adding more resources provided by individuals and grantee institutions in the ECI Community.
Recently, several of you have asked about newsletters focused on character and character formation. We’ve generated a short list below that we’ll expand with recommendations from the ECI Community later this summer. If you know of newsletters that connect with the mission of empowering and equipping higher education institutions to educate for character, please email us at eci@wfu.edu with the subject line “Resource Recommendations” along with a brief description. Here are a few newsletters we find meaningful and important for our work:
- Jubilee Centre for Character & Virtues: A monthly newsletter featuring news, links, resources, and announcements from the Centre and its partners. The Jubilee Centre is an interdisciplinary research center focusing on “character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing.”
- Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine: A monthly newsletter of special interest to faculty and staff working with students interested in medicine and in pre-medicine pathways. Their newsletter focuses on “advancing character and caring in medicine.”
- LearningWell Magazine: Two emails/week featuring the LearningWell newsletter and the Weekly Well (which features wellbeing-related educational stories). LearningWell is a publication of the Learning Well Coalition, “an organization dedicated to examining how higher education experiences can lead to improved wellbeing both on campus and throughout one’s lifetime.”
- Virtues & Vocations: A monthly newsletter featuring stories, book reviews, links to webinars and podcasts, among others. Virtues & Vocations is a forum based at the University of Notre Dame focused on cultivating character in pre-professional and professional education that seeks to engage “issues of character, professional identity, and moral purpose.”
- Educating Character Initiative: If you haven’t already, please consider signing up for our monthly newsletter! You’ll learn about all of our upcoming webinars and trainings, and you’ll be the first to hear about our funding opportunities. We also highlight members of the ECI Community—we’d love to share your story.