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… Read more »
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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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Cathy Davidson’s “Dividing Attention Deliberately” was recently published in the August 9, 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review. Read it here.
In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, bestselling horror writer Stephen King offers advice that anyone—and especially dissertation students—can take to heart. He advocates an escape from the soul-destroying interminable rewriting of… Read more »
The New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) to Honor Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Futures Initiative at the City University of New York Graduate Center, with Ernest L. Boyer… Read more »
Bonni Stachoiwiak did a great job interviewing me and editing this podcast on “Teaching in Higher Ed,” “How To See What We’re Missing in Higher Ed“: http://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/cathy-davidson/ Follow her on Twitter: Bonni Stachowiak… Read more »
In September 2013, I was invited to conduct a workshop on “Transforming Higher Education for the Digital Age” at a Carnegie Institute symposium on The Future of Higher Education. After the session that… Read more »
Davidson, Cathy. “Olaudah Equiano, written by himself.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 40.1-2 (2006/2007): 18-51. Davidson_Equiano_Novel Davidson, Cathy. “Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions.” Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Matt Gold. Minneapolis: University… Read more »