Events Calendar

Join us on Wednesday, April 15 at 3:30pm in Hiemenga Hall 334 for campus conversations on forming virtue through community-engaged learning.

Tyler Greenway and Kevin Timpe will be giving short presentations with discussion to follow each.

Tyler will present: Cultivating Virtue in the University: Practices for Formation
Virtue formation in higher education takes place through intentional, repeatable practices. This presentation introduces a research-based framework built around seven strategies—habituation, reflection, exemplars, dialogue, awareness, reminders, and accountability—and considers how universities can become formative environments that shape students’ character. 

Kevin will present: Basics about virtue from virtue theory
In this brief presentation, Timpe shares three important lessons from virtue theory that should guide interdisciplinary work on virtue. He then recommends some work that takes seriously the central lessons of virtue theory and gives guidance for how people in the social sciences should approach the virtues.