This is the homepage of the Stanford Compassionate University Project! We are working to make Stanford a compassionate place. This includes having students, faculty, and staff sign on and reaffirm the Charter for Compassion, and to collaboratively create a Five Year Compassionate Action Plan signed by President Hennessy, VPUE Harry J. Elam, Jr., VPGE Patricia J. Gumport, and the ASSU Undergraduate Senate.
Dr. James Doty, Director of CCARE (on the left), and Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow at Google, during one of CCARE's Conversations on Compassion. (November 2012).
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Our inspiration is the Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford, Dr. James Doty. As Director of CCARE, Dr. Doty has collaborated on a number of research projects focused on compassion and altruism including the use of neuro-economic models to assess altruism, use of the CCARE developed compassion cultivation training in individuals and its effect, assessment of compassionate and altruistic judgment utilizing implanted brain electrodes and the use of optogenetic techniques to assess nurturing pathways in rodents. Presently, he is developing collaborative research projects to assess the effect of compassion training on immunologic and other physiologic determinates of health, the use of mentoring as a method of instilling compassion in students and the use of compassion training to decrease pain.
We thank you, Dr. Doty, for all that you do. |
The Stanford Compassion Project is dedicated to the memory of Claire Roscow, whose commitment and passion for spreading compassion continues to inspire us.
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Other American universities
Officially Designated as Compassionate Universities
Western Connecticut State University
Spalding University
University of the West
Spalding University
University of the West