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Author Archives: Cathy Davidson

1804, 2015

Building Equity and Innovation Into a Syllabus: Or, We May Not Be Able to Change the Word But We Can Change Our Classrooms

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 18, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 610

In “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” the first Futures Initiative course, co-taught with President Emeritus William Kelly, we focused on pedagogy,

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1604, 2015

Howard Rheingold Offering Online Course on Cooperation and Co-Learning

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 16, 2015
  • Events of interest
  • 520

Hi everyone, For anyone who wants more theory about co-learning, Howard Rheingold (father of Mamie, who visited our class) has retired from

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1604, 2015

Is Educational Freedom and Choice Always Free? Reflections on Our Conversation with Dean John Mogulescu

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 16, 2015
  • Class Recap, Reflection
  • 476

(Another version was posted to our Futures Initiative group on hastac.org) This week our “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course had

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1404, 2015

CHE Piece About Our Course Comes Out On Friday, April 17

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 14, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 250

Hi everyone, Before I forget:   We need you to make edits to the language for the Futures Initiative Scholar certificate (and for

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0904, 2015

What Does It Mean To Earn a Futures Initiative Scholar Certificate?

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 9, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 402

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying a great break.  After break, one consistent and serious focus for our course will be

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0304, 2015

How It All Works: Breaking Down the Structure and Purpose of “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education”

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 3, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 473

We are often asked to carefully break down exactly how the “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course  is  structured.  It seems

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0304, 2015

Stanford Offers Free Tuition If Your Family Earns Less than 125K. What if you earn 12.5K? Poverty and College Success Rates

  • Cathy Davidson
  • April 3, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 336

[This is reblogged from hastac.org, April 2, 2015] Stanford announced a remarkable new program today, that in the future students whose parents

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2903, 2015

What If Group Work Led to Papers and a Panel?

  • Cathy Davidson
  • March 29, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 367

Over on Facebook, where I get a lot of my education on pedagogy, one of my former students posted a very modest

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2503, 2015

Why Graduate Training Must Change If We Want To Reverse Income Inequality #FuturesEd

  • Cathy Davidson
  • March 25, 2015
  • Class Recap, Reflection
  • 291

Yesterday, in “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” a student-led graduate course for Graduate Center students currently teaching in the CUNY system,

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2303, 2015

Reflection: Finland Does It Again!

  • Cathy Davidson
  • March 23, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 374

What’s in that water in Finland?  First they abolish standardized, summative, high stakes testing —and come out in the top 5 in

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