10 Things to Know about President Rodriguez
In this Issue:
- 10 Things to Know about President Rodriguez
- Educating Character Initiative to offer more nationwide character education grants with $44M in new funding
It’s the end of the week, and today I have just two topics, but both are great: how you can get to know President Rodriguez better, and learn how the impact of our work on leadership and character is going to broaden out to many more places.
10 Things to Know about President Rodriguez
Yesterday, I caught this gem on the official WFUniversity Instagram account: it’s 10 things to know about President Rodriguez. Because Wake is such a person-to-person place, it’s great to know what is important to our president, who is family is, and what he enjoys. Hope you like learning about him as much as I did.
Educating Character Initiative to offer more nationwide character education grants with $44M in new funding
There was big news today from our Program for Leadership and Character:
“Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI) will extend its impact on character education across the country by offering a new round of grants in 2027 for U.S higher education institutions with support from a nearly $44 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will also enable ECI to award additional grants in 2026 to help U.S. higher education institutions strengthen and expand their character education work.”
This is what the impact of the grant looks like in visual terms (click to enlarge):
What a wonderful success story in facilitating other schools to build upon our best-in-class work in the leadership and character space. You can read the full news story and/or see the images from Instagram. Go Deacs!
Wishing you a great weekend, Daily Deacdom!