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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.

Join the ECI Community to stay up to date on our latest offerings.


Learn with Us

Join the ECI Community

We’re a growing network of over 2,000 individuals, representing more than 700 institutions (including more than 500 US colleges and universities).

Join the ECI Community

Attend our Workshops & Convenings

Sign up for in-person professional development and community-building opportunities.

Attend our Workshops & Convenings

Register for Webinars and Book Club

Join us for a series of online workshops, as well as conversations with authors about their books on character.

Register for Webinars and Book Club

Watch Videos from Our On-Demand Webinar Archive

Watch past webinars and book club events to learn about developing character for, with, and in community.

Watch Videos from Our On-Demand Webinar Archive

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

Share Your Story or Resource

Do you have a story that could catalyze new ideas within the ECI community? Have you created a resource that could inspire other university faculty or staff in their work? Let’s work together to discuss how we might make these ideas come alive in other contexts.

Share Your Story or Resource

Connect with our Team

Our team has expertise and experience in character-based pedagogies, curricular or co-curricular programming, and building cultures of character at distinct institutions. We want to find ways to support your efforts, and we value conversation — please contact us!

Connect with our Team

Learn from WFU Program for Leadership and Character Resources

Discover insights and engage with resources from the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University.

Learn from WFU Program for Leadership and Character Resources