Cathy Davidson: “The New Education”
On March 1, 2018, Cathy Davidson discussed her book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux and show how we can revolutionize our universities to help students be leaders of change, not simply subject to it.
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Cathy N. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of English and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co-founding director (2002-2017, now co-director) of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. As the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Boyer Award for Significant Contributions to Higher Education, she champions new ideas and methods for learning and professional development—in school, in the workplace, and in everyday life. For more information on Cathy Davidson, visit her website at: www.cathydavidson.com
Presented by: The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. Co-sponsored by: Arts Division, Physical & Biological Sciences Division, Student Achievement & Equity Innovation, Literature Department, History Department, Social Sciences Division, Sociology Department, Philosophy Department, Chicano Latino Research Center.