The John Templeton Foundation is engaged in a wide range of activities designed to promote public awareness of the importance of character development during the college years. As part of this effort, the Foundation is conducting a public education campaign to inform prospective college students and their parents, high school guidance and college admission counselors, faculty members, college administrators, policy makers, trustees, and alumni about how colleges are responding to the challenge of encouraging character development among undergraduates. The Foundation also seeks to enhance discussion of character development among practitioners, scholars, and other experts and to spotlight the best practices being employed on campuses around the nation.

Among the elements of the public education campaign:

• The Templeton Guide: Colleges that Encourage Character Development which recognizes and profiles exemplary college programs, presidents who have exercised leadership on the issue, and institutions named to the Templeton Honor Roll. The guide is available at bookstores or can be ordered through this web site;

• the College and Character website;

• efforts to promote coverage of character development issues in the popular media;

• an on-line journal on character development (to debut in winter 2000); and

• a major national survey on public attitudes toward character development in higher education (scheduled for spring 2000).