Cathy N. Davidson Awarded 2025 McGraw Prize in Higher Education
The prize recognizes “pioneering contributions that have advanced learning opportunities and impacted countless lives.” According to L. Michael Golden, Vice Dean of Innovative Programs & Partnerships at Penn Graduate School of Education: “The McGraw Prize honors those who push the boundaries of what’s possible in education. This year’s winners are true innovators—leaders who are rethinking how learning happens, redefining who gets to learn, and creating solutions that will shape the future for generations to come.”
New College Classroom Wins 2024 Ness Book Prize
“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.”
The New College Classroom by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Annual Book Prize on January 8th, 2024 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
“Bold, brilliant, and beautiful. Davidson and Katopodis challenge us to reimagine what happens in the 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.
The New College Classroom by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis was awarded the Frederic W. Ness Annual Book Prize on January 8th, 2024 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
“Bold, brilliant, and beautiful. Davidson and Katopodis challenge us to reimagine what happens in the 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.