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FEHE Receives $10 million grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

January 15, 2026

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced that it has awarded a $10 million grant to FEHE to “offer new programs in classical humanities within the FEHE network and at other elite universities, and to provide grants for the development

Professor Robert P. George in Wall Street Journal on Campus Extremism

November 30, 2025

Professor Robert George, direct of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “A Solution to Campus Extremism.” In the article, Professor George argues that the current rise in extremist opinions on

Dr. Lydia Dugdale in Wall Street Journal on Aging and Robots

November 14, 2025

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University, published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age.” In the article, Dr. Dugdale explores ways that

2025 AASL Barry Prize Winners

November 12, 2025

Washington DC – At its annual investiture ceremony in Washington DC, the American Academy of Sciences & Letters (AASL) awarded ten Barry Prizes for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement to scholars of distinction in their fields. The Barry Prize is the Academy’s

Human Flourishing Program Staff in the Harvard Crimson on Cultivating Wisdom in Higher Education

October 25, 2025

Prof. Tyler VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, and Brendan Case, associate director, published an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson entitled, “What College Rankings Are Missing.” In the article, Vanderweele and Case point out that prominent

Professor Ober Awarded Balzan Prize

September 10, 2025

Berkeley, CA – The Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education (FEHE) is delighted to share that network scholar Prof. Josiah Ober, director of the Stanford Civics Initiative, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Balzan Prize for his work connecting the

Dr. Lydia Dugdale in The Free Press on Redefining Death

August 20, 2025

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University, published an article in The Free Press entitled, “The Doctors Trying to Redefine Death.” In the article, Dr. Dugdale documents the efforts of some physicians to

Global Flourishing Report

April 30, 2025

Cambridge, MA – The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science has released the first-year findings of the Global Flourishing Study, a five-year project that poses more than 100 questions to more than 200,000 people across 22