CFP: Special Issue of the Journal for Character Education on "Educating Character Across Differences: Cultivating Communities of Character in the University"

The Educating Character Initiative Scholars Team is excited to announce a call for abstracts for consideration in a special issue of the Journal of Character Education. The theme for this special issue is Educating Character Across Differences: Cultivating Communities of Character at Institutions of Higher Education. We welcome submissions of abstracts that might meet one or more of the following aims: 

• Scholarly research on understanding or educating character across differences and/or connecting the education of character across differences to the aims of higher education (including curricular developments, co-curricular programming, and other cross-institutional efforts).
• Practical examples of existing courses, programs, interventions, or initiatives to foster particular virtues of character across differences.
• Scholarly, practical, or pedagogically-focused work that shares tools, frameworks, activities, and other wisdom for educating character across differences at institutions of higher education.

Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words and should be submitted as Word documents to [email protected] by August 1, 2025.