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Georgetown College has received a $45,800 capacity-building grant from Wake Forest University to organize campus-wide character education. Georgetown College was one of only forty higher education institutions across the nation to receive the grant.

The grant was kicked off with a workshop at the end of the summer to discuss the virtues of love, justice, and responsibility because these virtues flow naturally based on the College’s mission statement. Twenty-seven faculty and staff members read and discussed a book titled Cultivating Virtues in the University.

“I am so excited about the enthusiasm and support faculty and staff have already shown for this grant and for character education in general,” says Dr. Shelly Johnson, Lecturer of Philosophy. “Our summer workshop was excellent and is already bearing fruit in discussions and work going on throughout campus. I can’t wait to see how the rest of this grant unfolds.”

Georgetown will host fall and spring meetings with a smaller cohort of 8-10 faculty and staff members who will help further refine the ideas developed in the summer workshop. The purpose of these meetings is to develop a clear plan for the next steps for character education programs. They hope to write a second, larger grant in the future to provide more comprehensive training across campus.

Professor of Philosophy Dr. Roger Ward expressed the importance of character education over the course of the College’s history and stated, “Character education has always been important for Georgetown College, and this grant provides us a great opportunity to deepen and expand these experiences for our students in academics, athletics, and student life.”