Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying a great break. After break, one consistent and serious focus for our course will be on what your undergraduates are doing, how you […]
Author Archive | Cathy Davidson
How It All Works: Breaking Down the Structure and Purpose of “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education”
We are often asked to carefully break down exactly how the “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course is structured. It seems more complex than it is but since, to […]
Stanford Offers Free Tuition If Your Family Earns Less than 125K. What if you earn 12.5K? Poverty and College Success Rates
[This is reblogged from hastac.org, April 2, 2015] Stanford announced a remarkable new program today, that in the future students whose parents earn less than $125,000 will be able to […]
What If Group Work Led to Papers and a Panel?
Over on Facebook, where I get a lot of my education on pedagogy, one of my former students posted a very modest comment about, as she was rushing to throw […]
Why Graduate Training Must Change If We Want To Reverse Income Inequality #FuturesEd
Yesterday, in “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” a student-led graduate course for Graduate Center students currently teaching in the CUNY system, we had a unit on “Life Circumstances and […]
Reflection: Finland Does It Again!
What’s in that water in Finland? First they abolish standardized, summative, high stakes testing —and come out in the top 5 in all numeracy and literacy categories on the PISA […]
How We Judge Learning (and How It Judges Us)
Today, I had an incredible, exhausting, inspiring hour today with Matt, the relentless and caring personal trainer at our gym. Before we dove into the tough stuff, he tested me […]
Rereading Like a Writer
It’s a fascinating experience and deep for an author to go back and re-read what she wrote five years ago. I never do this. I had no choice this time. […]