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Author Archives: Cathy Davidson

1303, 2015

How We Judge Learning (and How It Judges Us)

  • Cathy Davidson
  • March 13, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 504

Today, I had an incredible, exhausting, inspiring hour today with Matt, the relentless and caring personal trainer at our gym.  Before we

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0303, 2015

Rereading Like a Writer

  • Cathy Davidson
  • March 3, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 381

It’s a fascinating experience and deep for an author to go back and re-read what she wrote five years ago.   I never

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2402, 2015

If Academe is Part of the Problem of Inequality and Oligarchy, What’s Our Solution?

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 24, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 314

Here’s a link my morning hastac.org blog, in our Futures Initiative group:  “If Academe is Part of the Problem, What’s Our Solution?” 

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2302, 2015

Bowling Alone? Learning Alone? We Can Do Better

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 23, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 424

In his classic study Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam argues that we have lost our connection to friends, family, neighbors, and our

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Why Do Research? Or, Why “The CUNY Map of NYC” Matters #FuturesEd
1702, 2015

Why Do Research? Or, Why “The CUNY Map of NYC” Matters #FuturesEd

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 17, 2015
  • Mapping, Reflection
  • 433

Quality and Diversity Much has been written lately about the rise in quality of CUNY over the last two decades. Some have

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Why Do Research? Or, Why “The CUNY Map of NYC” Matters #FuturesEd
1702, 2015

Why Do Research? Or, Why “The CUNY Map of NYC” Matters #FuturesEd

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 17, 2015
  • Reflection, Research
  • 478

Quality and Diversity Much has been written lately about the rise in quality of CUNY over the last two decades. Some have

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1202, 2015

Three Reasons Why Higher Education Should (and Can) Change

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 12, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 343

This week a journalist asked me to list three principles that underlie and motivate my interest in institutional transformation for higher education. 

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0502, 2015

What We Did: Feb 3 (First Class)

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 5, 2015
  • Class Recap
  • 594

This is a public document. Comments welcome! MAPPING THE FUTURES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IDS 70200 Feb 3, 2015 415-615 Materials, Ideas Room

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0302, 2015

Great Method for Encouraging Class (or Any Kind) of Participation

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 3, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 295

Whenever the great science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany teaches or gives a talk, he asks questions and has one requirement:  everyone

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0202, 2015

The Single Best Method For Class (Or Any Kind of) Participation (Thx SciFi Genius Samuel Delany)

  • Cathy Davidson
  • February 2, 2015
  • Mapping, Reflection
  • 322

Whenever the great science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany teaches or gives a talk, he asks questions and has one requirement:  everyone

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