A Monthly Publication Of Virtues & Vocations, Good Thought Pieces Showcase Scholars From Various Disciplines Reflecting On How Issues Of Virtue And Vocation Intersect With Their Work In Higher Education.
Workplace Ethics Require Courage
November 2022
Arthur Schwartz
President, Character.org
Civic Virtue Education as an Antidote to Political Polarization
October 2022
Wes Siscoe
Postdoctoral Fellow, Virtues & Vocations
Center for Social Concerns
University of Notre Dame
Cultivating Empathy in the Classroom
September 2022
Mary W. McCampbell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Humanities
Lee University
Engaging Students in the Good Life of Learning
August 2022
Katherine Jo, Ph.D.
Director of Program Development and Design, The Purpose Project
The Kenan Institute for Ethics
Duke University
Teaching Virtues of Thinking Well: Humility and Pride
May 2022
Heather Battaly
Professor, Philosophy Department
University of Connecticut
Patience and Purpose in the Pursuit of Personal Projects
April 2022
Sarah A. Schnitker
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Baylor University
All About Me: Reframing the Purpose of Higher Education
March 2022
Wendy Fischman
Project Director, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Now What Ought We Do?
February 2022
Suzanne Shanahan
Leo and Arlene Hawk Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns
The University of Notre Dame
Social Media, Professional Identity Formation, and the Practice of Medicine: To Tweet or Not to Tweet
December 2021
by Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP
Benediktsson-Karwa President, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
What is Most Essential about a College Education?
November 2021
by Francis Su
Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
What is Higher Education?
October 2021
by Jennifer Frey
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of South Carolina
Can Virtue be Taught? — Practical Wisdom and Engaged Learning
September 2021
by Jay Brandenberger
Associate Director, Center for Social Concerns
Professor of the Practice, Department of Psychology
Director of Academic Community Engagement, Office of the Provost
University of Notre Dame
Virtues of the Mind
August 2021
by Jason Baehr
Professor of Philosophy
Loyola Marymount University
Bad Deaths: An Ounce of Prevention
July 2021
by Lydia S. Dugdale
Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
character journals: reflection as a character development strategy
June 2021
by Scott Parsons
Character Development Integrator for the Military Program
and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics,
The United States Military Academy at West Point
Seeking Forgiveness/Searching for Hope in Our Anthropocene World
May 2021
by Norman Wirzba
Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics
Crabwalking Towards Purpose
April 2021
by Christian Ferney
The Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
From Purposeful Graduates to Purposeful Colleges
March 2021
by Tim Clydesdale
Vice Provost, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Sociology, The College of New Jersey
Character, Story, and a Place at the Table
February 2021
by Daniel McGinty
Director, Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation and Applied Ethics
University of Portland
Especially In A Pandemic
January 2021
by Suzanne Shanahan
Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Nannerl O. Keohane Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics
The Difference Calling Makes
December 2020
by Bryan J. Dik, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Colorado State University
Race, Character, and Education
November 2020
by Mari Jørstad
Research Associate, Kenan Institute for Ethics
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