Character development in higher education is a complex process. This process has often been delegated to a single course on ethics or courses on religion. The authors of this article pose an alternative higher educational process whereby character development is rooted in a series of abilities that are contextualized throughout the entire undergraduate curriculum. These abilities, developed and assessed by faculty who study both the theoretical frameworks and who assess for student learning of these abilities, provided an overall framework for developing character within the context of their discipline and of a liberal arts general education.
Graham et al. (Wed,) studied this question.