Anteater Virtues Project awarded new grant: Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character

Aug 7, 2024

We are thrilled to announce a new 3-year Institutional Impact award from the Educating Character Initiative at the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University (funded by Lilly Endowment Inc). Titled Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character (EVIC), the project will involve a transformative expansion of UCI’s Anteater Virtues Project. EVIC will develop new materials to serve other educational audiences, such as in high schools, community colleges, prison education programs, and in other four-year colleges.

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