Visualizingthe community
Browse the character education ecosystem by institutional identity: public, private, research, liberal arts, community college, religious, and more.
Educating character. Building community.
Character Commons helps character educators find each other, share knowledge, and demonstrate their collective impact. Over time, our goal is to inspire collaborations, generate new research, empower thoughtful funders, and help the character education movement become a defining force in American higher education. Character Commons is built on the belief that we're stronger together.
See our community on the character map
Real tools for finding, claiming, and showcasing the work of character education.
Understandingthe context
Understand character organizations, programs, projects, collaborations, and geographic reach at a glance.
Making Connections
Discover patterns across regions and topics to spark new partnerships, friendships, and collaborations.
Explore resources
Dive into the community's growing library of tools, research, and curricula designed to support character education initiatives.
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Organization Type
Choose to only include colleges and universities, or expand your search to associations, funders, educational organizations, and nonprofits.
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Institutional Type
Browse the character education ecosystem by school identity: public, private, research, liberal arts, community college, religious, and more.
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Focus Area
Find character programs, projects, resources, and collaborations by the focus of the intervention: athletics, curriculum, faculty & staff development and more.
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Theme
Explore solutions through the lens of the communities they aim to strengthen — whether in the arts and media, civic and public life, the business world, or beyond.
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Anchor
Connect with a shared approach to character education sourced from a particular framework, tradition, or theory.
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Discipline
Connect with other character educators working within a particular disciplinary area or field.
Launch your profile
Share the expertise of your institution, program, or project. Upload resources, data, and research, and connect with fellow character educators across disciplines, roles, interest areas, and institutional types.
Character education is strongest when it grows together. Be a part of this collective movement toward wholeness that no single institution could achieve alone.
Powered by the Educating Character Initiative
The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a project of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, is building a movement for character-centered institutional and cultural transformation in higher education. The initiative supports U.S. colleges and universities as they grow into communities of character for the common good. Through grant making and collective learning initiatives, the ECI equips a wide range of schools to integrate character education into their distinctive institutional contexts, curricula, and cultures, forming faculty, staff, students, and institutions oriented toward wholeness and wise contribution to society.
Learn about our funders
We are deeply grateful to the philanthropic partners and foundations whose generous support makes Character Commons possible.
