Colleges Stress Moral Leadership

This article from the Christian Science Monitor describes a consortium formed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) "to share experiences as they work to foster five key components of 'educating students for personal and social responsibility': striving for excellence; personal and academic integrity; contributing to a larger community; taking seriously the perspectives of others; and ethical and moral reasoning." The article specifically mentions work at William Jewell College, Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, and also refers to the annual survey by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) which showed 67 percent of the entering class of 2010 last year chose "the importance of helping others" as a high priority.