UGA alumna Kyung Hee Kim (PhD, '04), an associate professor of educational psychology at the College of William and Mary, found that creativity was on the decline.

The June 19, 2011 issue of Newsweek magazine dropped a bomb with a cover story about the decline of creativity in America. Based on the research of  Kyung Hee Kim, this story was part of the awakening in this country to something that much of rest of the world has realized and acted upon—the importance of creativity to a nation’s well-being and economic growth.  Now, Massachusetts, California and Oklahoma are planning to use indexes to measure creativity in the schools. But, are more assessments key to increasing creativity? Is there really a creativity crisis?

Kim (PhD, UGA, ’04) is an associate professor of educational psychology at the College of William and Mary.  She has discussed her research with numerous news outlets including The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Metro World News (England), Superinteressante (Brazil), Periodista La Tercera (Chile), Korrespondent (Ukraine), the Globe and Mail (Canada), and others.

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