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The Anteaters Virtues Project at U.C. Irvine is making its way across campus — and higher education

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“We don’t just train people to be doctors or engineers or business leaders; we train people to think for themselves, and that is profoundly liberating,” Duncan Pritchard recently told LearningWell magazine about the university’s character work. Pritchard is director of the Anteater Virtues Project, which promotes the intellectual virtues of curiosity, integrity, intellectual humility, and intellectual tenacity across the university.


Gathering for the Common Good: Reflections from a convening of faith-based institutions at George Fox University

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This fall, George Fox University hosted ECI Community members united in exploring the formation of student character in faith-based higher education. Together, this group of thoughtful leaders represents a growing subset within the ECI Community: faith-based institutions committed to forming students with the qualities they need to serve the common good.


Can Intellectual Virtues Re-Energize Teaching?

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In an opinion essay for Inside Higher Education, Senior Lecturer of Marine Conservation and Ethics at Duke University Rebecca Vidra—a 2025 ECI Teacher-Scholar Grant recipient—reflects on her work to redesign courses on environmental issues in ways that center the formation of intellectual virtues like curiosity, humility, and resilience.


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