Villanova University ‘s Department of Humanities, Honors Program, and the Augustinian Institute have together been awarded a 2025 Educating Character Initiative Institutional Impact Grant. This three-year $822,858 grant has been awarded to support a collaborative project on “Educating Augustinian Character,” under the leadership of Professors Anna Bonta Moreland and Michael Tomko. The focus will be on cultivating the virtues from the Augustinian tradition that can guide us through the pilgrimage of life. The grant was awarded through the “Educating Character Initiative” (ECI) of The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University and funded by a generous grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.