LMU published a news story on the Intellectual Character Initiative (ICI).
The LA Loyolan (LMU student newspaper) published a story on the Intellectual Character Initiative.
ICI Co-Directors Dan Speak and Jason Baehr presented papers on “Virtues, Values, Vocation” and “From Civility to Intellectual Virtue” (respectively) at the “Anteater Virtues and Scholarly Values” conference at UC Irvine on 9/11.
Baehr published a public-facing essay on intellectual virtues and online inquiry on the Institute for Art and Ideas website.
Speak and Baehr participated – along with LMU Honors alumni Kat Brown and Nishanth Ramasubramanian – in an “Intellectual Virtues Panel” hosted by the LMU Honors Program on 11/6.
Speak and Baehr participated in a panel on “What Are We Doing Here?” sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) at LMU. Both featured the importance of intellectual virtue formation in their contributions.
Michael Lamb, the F.M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character and Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, participated in a conversation with Baehr on “How to Develop Intellectual Character” at the CFD on 11/10. This event was open to the entire LMU community.
Baehr discussed intellectual virtues and their importance to a university education in a panel on “What’s the Purpose of an LMU Education?” organized by the Marymount Institute at LMU on 11/18.
Baehr discussed AI and intellectual character formation in a panel on “Humanity and AI” at the CFD at LMU on 11/20.