Partners
External Funding & UCI Support
UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
From 2022-25, the project has received substantial external funding from the John Templeton Foundation (‘Embedding the Development of Intellectual Character within a University Curriculum’, #62330; PI: Duncan Pritchard; co-PIs: Richard Arum & Jason Baehr).
John Templeton Foundation
From 2024-27, the project will be supported by a second large grant from the John Templeton Foundation (‘Cultivating Intellectual Character in the AI Age’, #63365; PI: Shayan Doroudi; co-PIs: Duncan Pritchard and Gabriel Avakian Orona).
Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character (EVIC)
From 2024-27, the project will be supported by a third large grant (‘Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character (EVIC)’; PI: Duncan Pritchard), this time an Institutional Impact award from the Educating Character Initiative (funded by Lilly Endowment Inc), Program for Leadership and Character, Wake Forest University. The Anteater Virtues project is hosted by the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society and works closely with the UCI MUST project.
Partner Organizations
The project has several partners, with more to be announced soon. These include:
Intellectual Virtues Academy
A middle school and a high school in Long Beach—both called Intellectual Virtues Academy—that also have an intellectual character-based curriculum.
European Research Council
Professor Genia Schönbaumsfeld’s European Research Council Advanced Grant, ‘The Ethics of Doubt: Kierkegaard, Scepticism and Conspiracy Theory’. Professor Schönbaumsfeld will be collaborating on the construction of several advanced Anteater Virtues modules and will also integrating these modules into the curriculum at her home institution, University of Southampton, UK.
University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP)
The University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project (UQCTP) is a comprehensive curriculum and engagement program for the development and deployment of Critical Thinking Pedagogies.
Universidad Austral
A project at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aeries, Argentina, that is also exploring integrating educating for virtuous intellectual character into a University-level curriculum.