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Faculties

2026 Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene Education / Featured

About the Book

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 that existed twenty, ten, or even one year ago. Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene encourage faculty and allies to incite and participate in change by offering models of successful, constructive collaboration at a destructive and demoralizing time for higher education. Faculties focuses on the urgency of coalition-building, offering data and analyses of the structural, financial, ideological, and organizational circumstances that can support or inhibit productive change in colleges, universities, and research institutions. Presented in the form of dialogues between Davidson and Greene, two of higher education’s most innovative leaders, Faculties retains a welcoming, conversational tone while incorporating extensive references and citations and addressing the drastic changes to higher education since January 2025. Faculties offers the evidence and inspiration needed to enact institutional transformation now.

Reviews

3 reviews

Faculties is for anyone who wants institutional change and hasn’t fallen prey to cynicism or defeatism. The authors know their subject as well as anyone, and they impart their knowledge gracefully. Amidst a crisis in higher education provoked by a mercurial government, the ethos the authors embody arms us for the work to preserve our educational enterprise.

Michael Roth, President Wesleyan University

Many faculty are feeling under attack, vulnerable, overwhelmed and demoralized. This book is the antidote, aimed at empowering faculty for leadership and guiding the positive change that is needed to maintain higher education as a public good. The authors make positive change seem possible by documenting places where it is happening, showing a third way to lead

Adrianna Kezar, Co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education University of Southern California

Faculties is a book to be used, to be read in and for communities of faculty. It’s a love letter for higher education and a reminder of what is at stake, and why it is our responsibility to learn and act and lean into resolve. 

Steven P. Dandaneau, Executive Director, Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU), Associate Provost, Colorado State University