Today is my birthday. If I were bored with being an educator, I well could have taken early retirement today. Instead I’m embarking on one of the most challenging and thrilling positions I have held in my career, directing the Futures Initiative at The Graduate Center, for the City University of New York. There’s been … A Birthday Blog: To the Futures
On Thursday, May 15, the Columbia Daily Tribune printed a short article “MU plans 3-day teaching event” about the University of Missouri’s Celebration of Teaching event. Cathy Davidson was the keynote speaker for the event. For the full article, click here.
Original article published in The Columbian on May 9, 2014. To read the full article, click here, or see below: New training, new workforce 200 at luncheon chew over a 21st-century model for education and production By Aaron Corvin, Columbian port & economy reporter Published: May 9, 2014, 7:21 PM Out with grades and standardized testing, and school … New Training, New Workforce
I will blog later about my wonderful time in Vancouver, WA, at Washington State University, Vancouver. The remarkable #NextChapter program selected Now You See It as a “city reads” and “WSU reads” book and I gave a lecture at a lunch for business leaders and then another at a beautiful, renovated 1936 Kiggins Theater downtown … Thank You, Vancouver WA and WSU Friends!
Usually when my blogs are a “response to the New York Times,” it is to disagree, push back, emend, quibble, or rant. Today, I am reading Thomas Friedman’s “How To Get a Job at Google, Part II,” with enormous pleasure and satisfaction and a sense of confirmation. Friedman’s interview with Laszlo Bock, the man in … What Google and NY Times’ Tom Friedman Get Right About the Purpose of Higher Education
I could not be more thrilled or more impressed. Now You See It has been chosen as the “all-city read” for Vancouver, Washington, and I will be traveling there to give two talks on May 9 and to meet Dene Grigar and all the other wonderful faculty, students, and Vancouver, WA, citizens who are part … Honored that Now You See It Is “All-City Read”: Vancouver, WA #NextChapter
“I know I sound like a gushing teenager when I talk about the Graduate Center and CUNY,” Cathy told BloombergBusinessweek recently in an article detailing the institution’s bid for elite faculty, “but, well, I’ve never seen any place like it.” You can read the full article below, or visit the site here. Krugman Move … Businessweek: Krugman Move Boosts CUNY Effort to Escape Columbia, NYU Shadows
Identifying them as a sought after ‘academic power couple’, The Chronicle of Higher Education, spoke with Cathy Davidson and Ken Wissoker about their upcoming move to New York. Read the text of the article below, or visit the site here. By Peter Monaghan The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has attracted … Chronicle of Higher Education: Duke Scholar and Publisher Move to Her ‘Crush School’
Inside Higher Ed recently featured news of Cathy’s upcoming move from Duke University to the CUNY Graduate Center. Read the full article and comments here. Cathy Davidson Will Move From Duke to CUNY February 24, 2014 Cathy Davidson, a major player in the digital humanities and discussions of new models of higher education, is … Inside Higher Ed: Cathy Davidson Will Move From Duke to CUNY
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s breaking news blog, The Ticker, released this post about Cathy’s upcoming move to the CUNY Graduate Center where she will join the Ph.D. program in English and head up the Futures Initiative. The full text of the post is below, or you can visit their website here. February 24, 2014 by Charles … Chronicle of Higher Education: Cathy Davidson, Scholar of Learning Innovation, to Join CUNY Grad Center