2024 Measures of Success Series
with special guest
Dr. Karen Yu
Opening keynote - Measures of Success Series: Wednesday, February 21, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Look for the recording to be posted soon!
Opening keynote:
"The Possibility of Cognitive Kindness"
Empowering everyone’s very best thinking has perhaps never mattered more. And yet for all the value that colleges and universities place on learning and thinking, we often work in ways that are forcefully counter to this goal. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can be more cognitively kind. Across various levels and aspects of higher education, we’ll explore some ways to intentionally apply what science tells us about how our minds work to design interactions, processes, and spaces that better empower and liberate each person’s full cognitive potential. Along the way, we’ll also see how cognitive kindness can contribute meaningfully toward greater inclusivity and cognitive justice.
Speaker information:
Karen Yu is professor and chair of psychology at The University of the South (Sewanee), having earned a B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University. Her current scholarship focuses on judgment and decision making—particularly the possibilities inherent in option generation and the influence of framing and narratives on our choices. She is a passionate advocate—and earnest and imperfect practitioner—of cognitive kindness.