In this Issue: Educating Character Initiative featured in LearningWell magazine
Happy Friday, Deac families! I have just one story to share today. Wishing you and yours a great weekend!
LearningWell magazine featured Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI) in a June 10 article. I know many of our Daily Deac-ers are big fans of the idea of character education, so I wanted to share a snippet from the article to give you a taste of it:
“As higher education continues its self-reflection amidst an onslaught of external criticism, there is a growing movement to revive the idea of teaching character to college students, though questions abound. What would that look like in the modern university? Does ‘character’ mean ethics? Civic engagement? Holistic learning? And how would the idea take root within a diverse array of institutions?
The epicenter for this exploration is Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a national network of colleges and universities committed to putting character at the center of higher education. The intra-institutional network is part of Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character (PLC), an undergraduate and graduate-level research, teaching, and learning initiative with a mission to ‘inspire, educate, and empower leaders of character to serve humanity.'”
This quote from the article particularly resonated with me: “What unites these efforts is an understanding that character is a matter of concern for both the individual and the common good.”
