What does it mean to serve the public good today? Rooted in its motto, Pro Humanitate (For Humanity), Wake Forest University's Wake Washington Center brought lawmakers, policy experts and students together for a discussion at the National Press Club to examine the nature of public service and the character required to lead. The panel included…
Categories: Leadership & Character, University Happenings
Making the new Wake Forest University 30-second TV commercial started with cutting nearly 3,000 pieces of paper into campus landmarks, trees and people. Every element was designed, engineered and assembled by hand. The commercial is scheduled to air for the first time during the Sept. 3 football game and will continue to air throughout the…
Categories: Leadership & Character, University Announcements
With support from Lilly Endowment Inc., Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI) has awarded $20.5 million in Institutional Impact Grants to 44 projects directly impacting 49 colleges and universities. Each institution will undertake a long-term initiative to advance character education for undergraduates. These three-year grants, up to $1 million each, empower leaders, faculty, and staff…
Categories: Leadership & Character
Character is best built by community: That much has become clear in the three years since the founding of Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI), which has served as a foundation for a movement toward character development in higher education across the country. Now, new funding will help the ECI build on that foundation…
Categories: Leadership & 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…
Categories: Leadership & Character
The Wake Forest University School of Law and the Program for Leadership and Character have announced a new $5 million grant from the Kern Family Foundation to continue and expand the role of character in legal education on campus and beyond. The grant, “Leadership and Character in the Law: From Wake Forest to the World,”…
Categories: Leadership & Character, Uncategorized
The Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation and the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University are forming a partnership to promote leadership and character development through youth golf programs around the world and to support student-athletes at Wake Forest. The Arnold & Winnie Palmer Leadership and Character Development Program at Wake Forest University,…
Categories: Leadership & Character
Thanks to the support of Lilly Endowment Inc. and Wake Forest University, the Educating Character Initiative (ECI)(opens in a new tab) has awarded $15.6 million in Institutional Impact Grants(opens in a new tab) to 24 projects among 29 colleges and universities seeking to undertake a substantial and sustained effort to educate character in undergraduate populations across their institutions.
Categories: Leadership & Character
Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative (ECI) will expand its support for character education at colleges and universities across the country with more than $30 million in new funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The ECI has built a community of educators from more than 400 higher education institutions engaged in developing and implementing ideas for integrating character education on their campuses.
Categories: Community Impact, Leadership & Character
The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a part of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, has awarded 40 grants of up to $50,000, impacting 42 institutions nationwide seeking to educate and embed character in their distinctive contexts of higher education. “We were overwhelmed by the quality of the proposals we received this…
Categories: Community Impact, Leadership & Character