When most people think of engineering courses, they imagine complex equations or intricate machines. To Rich Eva, director of the Pratt School of Engineering’s Character Forward Initiative, ...

This morning when I opened up my daily newspaper (yes, I still have one delivered!) the headline blared, “Two Fed Leaders to Step Down Following Trading Controversy.” I had been following the ...

So is there a different way to choose leaders in addition to listening to them speak or reading what they propose to do? There is one way I have found useful for considering potential leaders based on ...

FORT MONROE, Va. (Apr. 15, 2010) -- Chaplains from the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command gathered at the Bay Breeze Community Center here for their annual conference where they examined a ...

Yael Kidron is the director of Character Education at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The last year in the news has stirred discussion about values such as tolerance, ...

Making Caring Common released the follow-up to their January 2016 report. After the curtain was pulled back on the allegations of bribery, cheating and deception that has plagued some of the country's ...

I recently read an article that mentioned over 80 percent of the men and women in leadership positions classify themselves as extroverts. The argument then came into play whether or not it’s because ...

As a coach, psychologist, and father, I am frequently asked what it truly means to be successful. We have to look no further than the world of professional sports to see the stark contrast between ...

I’m back to a familiar subject again. The older I get the more important it seems for individuals and societies and less obvious in the midst of change. The subject is character, and if ever it was ...

From the posters on the walls to the words used in lessons, students at Greentree Elementary School in the Humble Independent School District have been showered with the same message every day this ...

If you’ve read Stephen R. Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” you may or may not recall the subtitle, Restoring the Character Ethic. The premise of the book is that society has seen ...

The midterm elections are finally over and the results have been certified. In a close race democracy won and chaos lost, but it was too close for comfort. Democracy is not out of the woods. Some ...