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Courage

What is Courage?

Defining Courage

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Courage in Action

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Syllabus: Economic Inequality: Friend or Foe?

This course asks students to examine inequality from multiple perspectives, weighing its causes, consequences, and possible policy responses.

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Syllabus: MEDU 535  Supervision & Instruction

Future school leaders practice leadership virtues, character development, and practical wisdom as they learn to build more ethical, responsive, and caring school communities.

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Syllabus: REL 4389 Disability Ethics

Through first-person disability narratives, campus accessibility work, and engagement with disability mentors, students learn to challenge harmful assumptions and advocate for communities where disabled lives are honored.

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Foundations of Ethical Behavior

Business students analyze ethical dilemmas from the textbook using a structured decision-making model, and focusing on virtues like integrity, empathy, and courage.

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Cecilia Payne’s PhD thesis

An astrophysics assignment in which students examine Cecilia Payne’s landmark thesis and Henry Norris Russell’s response to it, considering how curiosity, open-mindedness, and intellectual courage shape scientific discovery.

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Teacher Observation/ Evaluation Role Play for Leaders

A leadership role-play assignment in which aspiring school administrators practice teacher observation and post-conference feedback, using courage and integrity to support meaningful professional growth.

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Spectroscopy & Rosalind Franklin (Moral Courage)

A science discussion assignment in which students examine Rosalind Franklin as an exemplar of moral courage, intellectual attentiveness, and integrity in research.

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Playbook on Intellectual Humility

A curated set of resources for educators & parents

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What’s Humility Got to Do with It?

An essay on higher education and discussing ethical challenges with students

Rosalyn W. Berne

Civic Virtue among Engineers

An essay from a professor at Olin College of Engineering about virtues in the classroom and beyond

Erhardt Graeff

The People Practice

Nuila reflects on his dad’s practice of medicine and how it shaped his own identity as a doctor

Ricardo Nuilla

8 kinds of humility

Ravi Chandra summarizes research on 8 kinds of humility and how it can help you stay grounded

Greater Good Magazine

Academic articles

This is a round up of recent articles on humility in academic journals