Implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education is an important duty and mission of teachers in colleges and universities. The deviation of higher education teachers′ perception of their own identity has become the root of their dilemma in fostering virtue through education. In order to solve the dilemma of fostering virtue through education of teachers in colleges and universities, it is necessary for them to correctly perceive the characteristics of both official and professional of their identity, as well as to correctly understand the intrinsic value and external value of fostering virtue through education. To promote teachers in colleges and universities to foster virtue through education, we should promote the integration of the intrinsic value and external value of fostering virtue through education, construct the legal basis for improving the perception of fostering virtue through education of teachers in colleges and universities, construct the coordination mechanism for teachers in colleges and universities to foster virtue through education, and promote the further improvement of the teacher cultivation system.