Anne Colby — ASN Events

Anne Colby

Stanford University, CA, United States

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Anne Colby is Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. She holds a BA from McGill University and a PhD in psychology from Columbia University. Previous to Stanford, she was director of the Murray Research Center at Harvard University and Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is the author of nine books, including The Power of Ideals; Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility; and Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession, which won AAC&U’s Frederick Hess Award for best book of 2012 on liberal education. Colby is also co-editor of three books. Her contributions to the field of moral psychology were recognized by the Association for Moral Education’s Kuhmerker Award. She was named a 2017 Influencer on Aging by Next Avenue for her recent research on purpose beyond the self in older adults.