Wendt Grants Closed Until August 2025
Thank you to our dedicated faculty and staff who applied for Wendt Grants this academic year. All available funding has been awarded, and we appreciate your commitment to character education. We encourage our community to apply again when grants reopen in August. Stay tuned for updates on the application process.
Wendt Character Initiative
Centered in the University's Mission and Values and consonant with its Reformed Christian identity, the Initiative engages the university community in a cooperative and spirited effort to foster intellectual understanding of and personal commitment to leading lives of purpose and excellent moral character.
Each year, the Wendt Character Initiative offers grants to faculty members leading classes or projects related to character, and which have a specific character-centered outcome.
Grant Qualifications
The Wendt Character Initiative funds a limited number of projects or events proposed by faculty and staff each year. The purpose of this funding is to enable faculty and staff to actively engage students in activities which challenge or encourage them in the area of character and ethics, and to help them reflect on and name the Initiative's character values. The outcome will be growth in character knowledge and/or character formation.
To receive funding through the Wendt Character Initiative, the proposed project or event must clearly relate to the Initiative's goal of promoting reflection on and development of ethical character in individuals and within the University of Dubuque's culture.
Updated grant request process coming in August 2025!