Character Collaborative Annual Meeting, September 21-22, 2022 Hilton-Americas Hotel-Houston, 1600 Lamar Street …
CHARACTER COLLABORATIVE ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OCTOBER 12-13, 2021 Contents Preface: Angel Perez, CEO, NACAC Introduction to…
by Bob Massa, Bill Conley and David Holmes from The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6, 2021 In his recent…
By: Bill Conley and Bob Massa, Principals, Enrollment Intelligence Now Is standardized testing dead? Or, to paraphrase Mark Twain, are…
Remarks at the IECA Fall Conference, November 19, 2020 David Holmes, Executive Director, Character Collaborative Profound changes are occurring in the…
CharacterMovementOverview A powerpoint presentation (as a PDF) by David Holmes looking at the history of the character movement and its…
https://www.character.org/news/character-as-college-admission-criteria
By David Holmes Original Article: https://www.insidehighered.com A gradually emerging revolution in college admission is on the cusp of taking flight.…
As COVID-19 and other social changes push us out of our norms, we again should consider how nonacademic criteria can be used in admission decisions. This a distressing and challenging time in America. We are experiencing a deadly pandemic, reacting to police violence, confronting racism in its many forms, and enduring divisive national leadership. In education, COVID-19 has elicited changes that would have been beyond belief just a few months ago, including universal online teaching and students learning from their homes.
Since Angela Duckworth’s widely-watched TED talk on grit in 2013, there has been growing attention to character education and, moreover, to the role of character in how colleges and universities decide who gets in. One result was the creation of the Character Collaborative in 2016 with the mission to elevate the role of character attributes in admission. Today, the Collaborative membership includes 75 colleges and secondary schools, research entities, educational reform organizations, and professional associations.