Recap: Measuring What Counts
On Wednesday, March 2nd, the Futures Initiative hosted “Measuring What Counts: Credentials or Learning” at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It is part
0703, 2016
Tag Archives: testing
2707, 2015
Universities Are No More Illusory Than Journalists: Rsp to Kevin Carey and NYT
[Cross-posted from HASTAC. This post was corrected after useful tweets from Kevin Carey and others. Special thanks for those. All errors, of
1202, 2015
Three Reasons Why Higher Education Should (and Can) Change
This week a journalist asked me to list three principles that underlie and motivate my interest in institutional transformation for higher education.
1002, 2015
Cathy Davidson, Futures Initiative Director, Quoted in Politico Article
Cathy Davidson, Futures Initiative Director and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, is featured in a Politico article out today. “No profit
1101, 2015
The Invention of Failure
What if we got rid of “flunk out courses” that were defined as “rigorous and demanding” and, instead, set our goal as