Educating Character Initiative Announces 2025 Teacher-Scholar Grant Recipients
Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc., the Educating Character Initiative (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, and increasing knowledge-sharing and pedagogical innovation across institutions and disciplines. 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. Congratulations to these deserving winners.
David Busch, Cuyahoga Community College
Prefigurative Virtue Ethics: A Lost Vision of Liberal Education
Randall Curren, University of Rochester
Promoting Integrative Emotion Regulation Across the Curriculum
Paul Gannon, Montana State University
Enhancing Character Education in STEM through Indigenous Perspectives at Montana State University (MSU), a Land-Grant Institution
Robert Hartman, Ohio Northern University
Improving Character: Moral Virtues, Strategies, and Questions
Lauren Kuykendall, George Mason University
Virtues for Self-Knowledge
J. Mark Manry, Rochester Christian University
Christian Pilgrimage and Character Formation: A Case Study of the Camino de Santiago
Elyse L. Postlewaite, Montclair State University
Differentiating Character Strengths and Fostering Belonging for Culturally Diverse Students
Sara Protasi, University of Puget Sound
Cultivating Courage in an Age of Fear
Will Small, University of Illinois, Chicago
Beyond the Skill Analogy: A Metaphysics and Practical Epistemology of Virtue of Character
Malavika Sundararajan, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Character Building for Social Justice: Learning from Ramapough Munsee Lenape Leaders
Kevin Timpe, Calvin University
Disability Studies as the Locus for Civic Virtue
Rebecca Vidra, Duke University
Cultivating a sense of purpose through character education in the Nicholas School of the Environment
The ECI is grateful to all those who submitted proposals for 2025 Teacher-Scholar Grants. We were impressed by the quality of the proposals we received, including many we were unable to fund in this round. We encourage all applicants whose requests were not fulfilled to reapply in our next grant cycle.