Cathy N. Davidson

Cathy N. Davidson’s new book The New Education is mentioned in Julie Johnson’s “Three Takeaways: Complete College America Annual Convening.” Johnson writes: “Complete College America announced that over the next year, the new CCA Fellows, composed of top leaders in higher education, will work together to rethink some of the core tenets of the higher education system…

Effective management strategies for ensuring that everyone in a group contributes effectively, in faculty meetings, community organizing, and classrooms. Read more here.

Enough With the Laptop Ban Debate! “Amid the latest online brouhaha over use of devices in the classroom, educators say it’s time to focus on helping students however they need it — laptop or no laptop.” By Mark Lieberman Read the full article here.

“Cathy Davidson, the author of a new book, The New Education, visited Georgetown today. In a conversation about the book, she reviewed the historical roots of many of the practices of the modern university, many lying with Charles Eliot at Harvard in the late 19th century. These include the organization into departments, fields that separated the…

Cathy N. Davidson writes for HigherEdJobs: “But what about the students at our least-funded institutions, students who themselves come from the most stressed situations. How do they thrive? They, of course, are the majority of students in college today…” Read the full post here.