From the bookshelf
Books
2026
Faculties
Faculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a “how to” guide for academic colleagues who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. There is no going back to the version of US higher education…
2022
The New College Classroom
College instruction is stuck in the past. If a time traveler from a century ago arrived on today’s campuses, they would recognize only too well the…
2022
The New Education (2022 Updated Paperback Edition)
We’re living in a period of great upheaval—yet there hasn’t been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N.…
2017
Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices
The essays in this collection were written collaboratively, with feedback, insights, discussion, and inspiration from the dozen students in “American Literature, American Learning,” a graduate class…
2017
The New Education
In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson reveals that we desperately need a revolution in higher learning if we want our students to succeed in our…
2012
Now You See It
When Cathy Davidson and Duke University advocated giving free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said the university was wasting their money. Yet when…
2010
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact…
2004
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America
An engaging combination of information and analysis, Davidson’s book on the production and readers of the early novel will be a valuable resource for anyone interested…
1999
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory
The story of the White Furniture Company–a century-old, family-owned business that was bought out by a huge corporate conglomerate and later closed–puts a human face on…
1994
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
A professor at Duke who has lived in Japan on four occasions, Davidson writes perceptively, frankly, and personally about her struggles to understand Japanese ways. She…