When Craig Goehler’s first-year engineering students walk into their first engineering design course and pick up a syllabus, they probably expect problem sets and design assignments. So they are likely surprised to see words like “empathy, honesty, and justice” in the weekly learning outcomes alongside those assignments. But for Goehler, an associate teaching professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, it is important to be explicit about the way virtues are embedded in the engineering design process; in fact, Goehler has come to believe that virtue is fundamental to becoming a good engineer.

We sat down with Fr. Boyle to discuss his work over almost 4 decades, and how his generous vision of human goodness and dignity continues to have implications for social change. Read More

What does character education add to the educational vision of a community college? Though in the early stages of their work, Ted Hadzi-Antich, Grant Potts, and Arun John at Austin Community College (ACC), suspect there will be a fulsome payoff for civic communities, employers, and, of course, the students themselves. In short, everyone benefits when an access institution puts character at the center of its work.

Something unprecedented is underway within the five universities that make up the Texas Tech University System. While many universities look to infuse character education into their curriculum, Texas Tech is focusing on the adults it employs. The gamble is that investing in culture change by putting its people first will affect institutional change. And it’s paying off.

Starting in the fall of 2015, Chisolm helped found the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing with the goal of helping medical students explore “big questions,” like what it means to be human, to be a good physician, and to lead a life of flourishing.