Futures Initiative Director Cathy Davidson discussed The End of Higher Education with Mike Wesch and Randy Bass as part of the Connected Courses Kick-off Live Event on September 15th. As […]
Archive | September, 2014
Cathy Davidson discusses Technology Distraction on NPR
Listen to Futures Initiative Director Cathy Davidson talk on the NPR Show To The Point here. Who’s in Charge: You or Your Smart Phone? Drivers tell pollsters they know it’s […]
Voto Latino Innovators Challenge: Applications Accepted Through October 15
About Apply Inspiration FAQ Latinos like technology. Let’s put it to work. Latinos use digital media more than any other ethnic group. But few Latinos are translating their tech savvy […]
Trust Challenge: Now Accepting Higher Ed Applications
TRUST CHALLENGE NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Awards: $10,000 to $150,000 for year-long development grants; $1.2 million will be awarded in total. Timeline: Final applications are due Monday, November 3, 2014 at 5pm […]
Welcome to all our New Virtual Partners
We want to extend a welcome to all of our virtual partners for the upcoming event “What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media”: Hybrid Pedagogy; Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center; […]
“Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” Profs Cathy Davidson and William Kelly S 2015
Mapping the Futures of Higher Education This is the first course offered by the new Futures Initiative, team-taught by Director Cathy N. Davidson and former Graduate Center President William Kelly. […]
Initial reflections on the Futures Initiative
“We can’t fail. When your goal is to transform higher education, you can’t really succeed—so that means you can’t really fail. Everything we do will be interesting.” – Cathy Davidson […]
CUNY Soars: Reported by the Daily News
The Daily News reports that a record number of students are enrolling across the CUNY campuses, pursuing an affordable education. Please also see Cathy Davidson’s blog post, The Eighty-Five Percent: […]
Fall 2014 Newsletter | Futures Initiative, 1.1
Printable version of our newsletter! It has been a very busy summer and we have much to report about the Futures Initiative and HASTAC@CUNY–places, people, events, lots of thank […]
Mapping the Universe and Other Small Things: Curtis Wong, at GC Oct 3
“Mapping the Universe and Other Small Things: The Quest for Story-Based Exploratory Learning.” Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research October 3, 10 am. Science Center, Room 4102 Graduate Center, CUNY […]
