Note: This is the 2016 welcome address that Prof Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative, was invited to deliver on behalf of the faculty of the Graduate Center, CUNY. It’s important for graduate training and higher education extends beyond CUNY. WELCOME! It is an honor and a delight … Is Graduate School Worth It?
In a guest column for Choice Reviews, Cathy N. Davidson explains why digital literacy, especially now, is crucial. Learning how to learn is the single most important skill one can master for a rapidly changing world. When I teach my undergraduate course on “Digital Literacies,” I begin with an exercise in “meta-cognition,” deep reflection … “Why We Need Digital Literacies” in Choice Reviews
In 2011, the New American Colleges and Universities established a national award to honor the legacy of Ernest L. Boyer by recognizing an individual whose achievements in higher education exemplify Boyer’s quest for connecting theory to practice and thought to action, in and out of the classroom. The 2016 Boyer Award was presented to Cathy … “Educating Higher” in summer 2016 issue of Liberal Education
Association of American Colleges & Universities Keynote Address February 9, 2016
These are my welcome remarks on behalf of the faculty of the Graduate Center to the entering graduate students, delivered on August 24, 2016 WELCOME! It is an honor and a delight to welcome you all to a new academic year and, especially, to welcome you who are just joining us as members of our … Excellence + Equity = Public Good in Higher Education
Last night I sent my editor the draft manuscript of my non-boring book on the future of higher education. It should be in bookstores and online this time next year. I should be ECSTATIC, right? I finished! I hit “Send”! Done! Well . . . not quite. I rewarded myself by listening to the … Hit “Send”! Then Rinse, Repeat . . .
It is deeply moving and humbling to read brilliant scholars–Matthew Pethers, Duncan Faherty, Thomas Koenigs, Karen A Weyler, Ed White, Sian Silyn Roberts–take seriously, chapter by chapter, Revolution and the Word:The Rise of the Novel in America, a book I wrote 30 years ago. This is a special Forum in the Journal of American Studies:, … Revolution and the Word Thirty Years After
Volume 50 of the Journal of American Studies features a roundtable on Cathy N. Davidson’s Revolution and the Word: 21st-Century Studies in the Early American Novel: A Roundtable on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Revolution and the Word. Cathy N. Davidson Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (New York: Oxford University … Journal of American Studies Roundtable on the 30th Anniversary of Revolution and the Word
Cathy Davidson’s “Dividing Attention Deliberately” was recently published in the August 9, 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review. Read it here.
On February 28, 2016 CBC Radio posted a radio interview with educators Cathy N. Davidson, George Siemens, and Elizabeth Hanson. Read more here.