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Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions
The 2025 Institutional Impact Grants will expand a growing movement to develop character across higher education.
Educating Character Initiative to expand its nationwide network promoting character education with $30M in new funding
The funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. adds $10 million to the Institutional Impact grants awarded by the ECI this year and provide $20 million to fund and support another round of grants to institutions in 2026.
Reflections from Our Class of 2025 Leadership and Character Scholars
Our Class of 2025 Leadership and Character Scholars shared their final thoughts on leading with character and moments that shaped their character while in the Program.
Dinners with Ethan Stonerook
A Wake Forest alumnus and Assistant Professor of PA Studies is giving back to his community by connecting arts and humanities to the struggles of working in the medical field.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson Opens Law Conference at Wake Forest University
His keynote address touched on trust, the importance of learning limits to power, and his approach to leading the North Carolina Department of Justice and its 1,000-plus employees
A Good Fellow
Roscoe Bell (’23) came to our Program as a student. That led to a fellowship and then a staff position, and soon it’ll lead him in a new direction at Wake Forest. All along the way, he has seen connections that others don’t and used those connections to bring people together.
A Recap of our “Educating Character Across Differences” Conference
“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.”
Award-winning paper from Wake Forest Engineering connects effective communication skills to character
Educators on campus set out to create a new seminar series to help engineering students become better communicators. What they found was an opportunity to connect character to professional education.
What Is College For? A Discussion Group Helps Students Figure It Out
In the groups, which meet four times over one month, students talk about purpose, failure, friendship, and cultivating gratitude.
Educating Character Initiative to grant an additional $10M to support character education across the U.S.
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.
Final Thoughts from Our Graduating Class of Leadership and Character Scholars
Our second cohort of Leadership and Character Scholars, shared what they learned and found meaningful before they graduated.
A Course that Examines Everyday Leadership in Education
Dr. Christina Richardson is encouraging her students to reflect on the ways they can lead in and outside of the classroom.
Educating Character Initiative announces 2024 grants to individuals
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.
A Course About Con Artists and Character
After attending our Course Development and Redesign Workshop, Rebecca Gill taught a Wake Forest course that looked into virtues, vices, and fraud.
A Technology Ethics Course Helps Students Navigate Emerging Technologies with Character
Dr. William Cochran is helping students cultivate moral agency to navigate a society of emerging technologies.
Wake Forest announces MLK ‘Building the Dream’ award winners
Leadership and Character Scholar Rute Ayalew is recognized for her work on campus.
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- Translating More Than Just A Language
- New Staff Members Join Leadership and Character
- Leadership and Character in the White House
- How Creative Humility Made Students’ Screenplays More Sublime
- Lessons from our 2023 Course Development and Redesign Workshop
- Dr. Beth Purvis to lead the Program’s new Educating Character Initiative
- A Study Aboard Course Takes Students on a Pilgrimage to Develop Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Our First Class of Leadership & Character Scholars has Graduated. Here’s What They Taught Us.
- Leadership, Power, and Confidence: A Conference for Women by Women
- Two Leadership and Character Scholars Reflect on their College Experiences at the Senior Colloquium
- “Educating Character Across the University” Conference Draws More than 200 To Wake Forest
- Wake Forest University Awarded $30M Lilly Endowment Inc. Grant to Build National Capacity for Character Education
- Wake Forest senior Alice Hauser named Rhodes Scholar
- Program Welcomes 15 New Student Ambassadors in 2022
- ‘The Good Place’ creator, Michael Schur, mixes comedy and ethics
- How Student Performers Examine the Arts’ Influence On Their Character
- Leadership and Character-Led Course Challenges Students to Creatively Solve Community Problems
- Five Program Postdoctoral Fellows Land New Teaching Positions at Universities Across the World
- How a Law Student Looks at Leadership and Character
- Three new team members to join the Program for Leadership and Character
- “What is Wake Forest For?” Dr. Michael Lamb delivers speech at Inauguration Luncheon
- Leadership & Character Scholars get Face to Face with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
- Leadership & Character Scholar wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
- Students Hear the Value of Being An Ally and Working Together for Environmental Justice
- Senior Orators Reflect On Their College Experience
- U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo visits Wake Forest University
- $8.6 million Kern Family Foundation Grant Funds Character and the Professions Programs
- How Incoming Medical Students Learn about Leadership and Character
- The Program Initiates 22 Leadership and Character Scholars
- WATCH: Visual artist Wayne Brezinka visits Wake Forest
- How Seven Women Display Leadership and Character in Athletics
- Journal Publishes Case Study of Character in the College Classroom
- Program initiates 14 Leadership and Character Ambassadors
- Leadership, Character, and Complex Calculations
- What Is Principled Pluralism? And Why Does It Matter?
- Leadership and Character Scholars get face-to-face with Malcolm Gladwell
- Flourishing Retreat Helps Connect Students With Nature
- Journal Publishes Article on Seven Strategies for Developing Character
- Ann Phelps wins award for a children’s book six years in the making
- How Iyana Trotman (’24) is already making an impact on Wake Forest’s storied debate team
- A Look at the Impact of Leadership and Character’s Grants for Faculty
- Dr. Elizabeth Whiting Pierce Receives Sustainability Award
- Ethics through Fiction and Film with the Oxford Character Project
- Program Screens “When Lambs Become Lions” Documentary with Filmmaker
- Leadership and Character Co-Sponsors “Lawyers as Leaders” Series
- Michael Lamb Interviews Angela Duckworth at KEEN National Conference
- The Program Funds Panel on Anti-Racist Pedagogy
- Michael Lamb Speaks at “Teaching Intellectual Virtues” Mini-Conference
- “Character and the Professions” Conference Draws Over 2,300 Registrants
- The Program Announces Leadership & Character Council
- Postdoctoral Fellow Accepts Position in Embedded EthiCS at Harvard
- Enneagram and the Election Series with Chris Copeland and Chelsea Yarborough
- Leadership and Character Spring 2021 Course Offerings
- Program for Leadership and Character Announces Mission Statement and Logo
- Department of Engineering and Leadership and Character Awarded $700k from Kern Family Foundation
- Lamb Receives Teaching Award from Center for the Advancement of Teaching
- Program Co-Sponsors “The Path Forward: US Environmental Leadership Beyond 2020”
- Leadership and Character Co-Sponsors “Race and the Media: A Roundtable Discussion Among Journalists”
- Leadership and Character Co-Hosts Voices of Our Generation
- Mendonça, Dykhuis, and Lamb Present at Conference of the Association for Moral Education
- “Leadership for Environmental Justice” with Brahm Ahmadi
- Defining Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI
- “The Respectful Dissent”: Honoring the Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Lamb Gives Keynote at School of Virtue and Character in Australia
- Leadership and Character Postdoctoral Fellows Teach New Courses
- An Expert Briefing for the Oxford Character Project
- Franklin and Lamb Discuss Leadership and Character in Chaos and Conflict
- Leadership and Character Adds 9 New Staff Members
- Leadership and Adversity Course Features 11 Distinguished Speakers
- Program Offers Grants for Faculty and Departments
- Movie Nights with Leadership and Character
- Dr. Donovan Livingston Featured in Random House Virtual Commencement
- Call to Conversation Virtual Programming
- $1.68 million from John Templeton Foundation to Study Exemplars
- Leadership and Character Awarded $3.4 million from Lilly Endowment
- Wake Forest Magazine Fall 2019 Issue Focuses on Leadership and Character
- Program for Leadership and Character Featured in the Fabric of Character
- The Ethics of Algorithms
- Kenneth Townsend Speaks at Georgia State University College of Law
- Initiation of Inaugural Class of Leadership and Character Scholars
- Donovan Livingston Delivers Keynote Address at NC Teacher’s Conference
- Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Leadership and Character Students
- Ann Phelps Performs with Theodicy Jazz Collective at Syracuse University
- What Music Can Teach Us about Leadership and Character
- Dr. Michael Lamb Speaks at University of Tennessee
- Rotary Club Invites Michael Lamb to Speak about Leadership and Character
- Leadership and Character in the Law
- Imagining Philanthropy as Compassionate Leadership
- Michael Lamb Speaks on Hope at Princeton University
- Legacies of Leadership: Commemorating the Winston-Salem Sit-in
- Virtual Programming from Leadership and Character
- The Crucible of Character
- Raven Scott Speaks on Self-Leadership at The Calhoun School
- Enneagram Studies Project with Leadership and Character
- New Framework for Character Education in Universities
- The Program for Leadership and Characters Creates Opportunity for Student Artists and Performers
- Program Staff Wins 1st Place in Be Still Media Competition