After a great weekend where I was able to fill one of those buckets by visiting Yosemite National Park with my sister, I’m excited for Week #2 as “Innovator in Residence” at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In my first week, I’ve met so many truly fabulous and inspiring students, faculty, staff, … Week 2: Innovator in Residence, University of the Pacific
Farewell and Appreciation from HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley It is with both sadness and enormous pride that we announce, after 25+ years, that HASTAC’s life as “the world’s first and oldest academic social network” is coming to an end. In the next few months, the interactive HASTAC social network will be … Sunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years
We are beginning to put together the details for a book tour for Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times by Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene (Duke University Press, October 2026). We will be adding details and new appearances as they become available. If you are interested in scheduling a book … FACULTIES : Fall-Winter Book Tour Schedule
ACADEMIC INNOVATIONS 2000-Present: HASTAC Cofounder and Codirector In 2000-2001 Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) and David Theo Goldberg (University of California Humanities Research Institute) worked with other academics and technology experts to create HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory or “Haystack”). NSF has called it “the world’s first and oldest academic social … Innovations
Thanks to generous funding from the Teagle Foundation, the Provost at CUNY Central, and the Provost at the Graduate Center, we’ve been able to support up to thirty undergraduates each year, chosen from across CUNY. The CUNY Leadership and Peer Mentoring Fellows undergo extensive leadership training that emphasizes how one can help to motivate, galvanize, … CUNY Leadership and Peer Mentoring Fellows
Would you like to see how student-led learning works in a graduate class? You can “lurk” or join our Group on hastac.org and watch student-led learning unfold in real time. Anyone one who joins HASTAC (it’s free; data is treated respectfully and never, ever sold!) can also join our “Black Listed” Group. In Spring 2018, … “Black Listed”: An Open, Public Course
The CUNY Humanities Alliance, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is dedicated to training Ph.D. students in the most successful methods for teaching humanities courses in some of the country’s most diverse undergraduate classrooms. Co-directed by Cathy N. Davidson, the Humanities Alliance is a partnership between the Graduate Center and LaGuardia Community … CUNY Humanities Alliance
The essays in this collection were written collaboratively, with feedback, insights, discussion, and inspiration from the dozen students in “American Literature, American Learning,” a graduate class taught by Cathy N. Davidson. Thanks to a grant from the Teagle Foundation, a team of undergraduates were taught how to do professional copy editing, proofreading, and book design … Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices
Conceived and taught by Futures Initiative Director Cathy N. Davidson and Graduate Center President Emeritus William P. Kelly, Mapping the Futures of Higher Education was a radically interdisciplinary graduate class that used innovative pedagogy and a new open source online tool to connect and network more than 365 undergraduate students across ten CUNY colleges, each … Mapping the Futures of Higher Education
In July 2014, Cathy Davidson moved to New York to direct the Futures Initiative, a new way of supporting graduate students as the next generation of leaders of institutional and classroom change. The Futures Initiative sponsors events, programs, workshops, and courses all designed to inspire creative, innovative, interactive, peer-led new ways of learning, teaching, and … Futures Initiative: The Graduate Center, City University of New York