To serve as a resource for administrators, teachers and parents as they seek to fulfill their responsibilities as moral educators.

To foster more research initiatives and publications on moral and character education, not only by Boston University’s faculty and students but by scholars and researchers from around the world.

To educate teachers who can provide students with an intellectual framework for discussing, understanding and practicing core virtues.

To stimulate a national dialogue on issues of moral education, thus helping scholars to become more competent in the study of ethics and character in our nation’s schools.