“Cathy Davidson is the only person to have authored more than one Ness Award–winning book in the forty-four-year history of the award.” —Click here to read more.

New College Classroom Awarded 2023 Ness Book Prize By the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

The New College Classroom by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis will be awarded the Frederic W. Ness Annual Book Prize on January 8th, 2024 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

Senior Advisor to the Chancellor on Transformation

Cathy N. Davidson has been appointed Senior Advisor on Transformation to the Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest public urban university, with 25 campuses and nearly 500,000 students. A signature project and mission of the new Office of Transformation is “Academic Success,” a coordinated initiative engaging faculty across all 25 CUNY campuses as Career Success Fellows in a multi-pronged effort to prepare students for the world beyond school. Read more here.

The New College Classroom

The final installment in the “How We Know” Trilogy, The New College Classroom, co-authored with Dr. Christina Katopodis, is the “installation guide” that applies the big ideas of the earlier volumes. Combined with extensive research in active learning, radical pedagogy, and learning science, Davidson and Katopodis translate these ideas into ready-to-use strategies for instructors to incorporate into any course today.

“Bold, brilliant, and beautiful. Davidson and Katopodis challenge us to reimagine what happens in the classroom.” 

—Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University

In honor of the publication of The New Education, the author contributes to a scholarship fund created at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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