Anne Colby
Staff Information
- Role
- Senior Scholar
- Bio
Senior Scholar Anne Colby co-directs the Political Engagement Project, the Preparation for the Professions Program and the Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Liberal Arts project. Prior to joining the Carnegie Foundation in 1997, she was director of the Henry Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College, an interdisciplinary social science research center and longitudinal studies data archive, now located at Harvard University. Her publications include seven co-authored books, A Longitudinal Study of Moral Judgment (1983), The Measurement of Moral Judgment (1987), Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment (1992), Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility (2003), Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007), Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement (2007), and Educating Engineers: Theory, Practice, and Imagination (in press). She is co-editor of Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Human Inquiry (1995), Competence and Character Through Life (1998), and Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century (2002). A life-span developmental psychologist, Colby holds a B.A. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University.
- Address
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 51 Vista Lane Stanford, CA 94305
- Work Phone
- 650.566.5131
- Work Email
- colby@carnegiefoundation.org
Related content
- Publication
- Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement
- Book Highlights from Educating for Democracy: Preparation Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement
- Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field
- Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law
- Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility
- Document Supplement for Educating for Democracy: Preparation Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement
- Higher Education: Civic Mission & Civic Effects




