\nCathy N. Davidson, a distinguished scholar of the history of technology and appointed in 2011 to the National Council on the Humanities by President Obama, is a leading innovator of new ideas and methods for learning and professional...\nCathy N. Davidson, a distinguished scholar of the history of technology and appointed in 2011 to the National Council on the Humanities by President Obama, is a leading innovator of new ideas and methods for learning and professional development–in school, in the workplace, and in everyday life. She is a frequent speaker and consultant on institutional change at universities, corporations, non-profits and other organizations, and writes for the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, Times Higher Ed, as well as many other academic and trade publications in the U.S. and abroad. Her current book project, to be published by Basic Books, offers a model for revitalizing education where humanists and artists work with scientists to redesign education for the next generation of leaders of this fragile, complicated, interconnected world.
Davidson moved to the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, on July 1, 2014. She holds the position of Distinguished Professor and Director of The Futures Initiative, a new program designed to train the next generation of college professors and catalyze and draw upon the abundant energies and ideas of CUNY faculty and students for innovative leadership in higher education. Areas of interest include academic collaboration, new modes of publishing and communication, innovative and engaged teaching, peer-to-peer learning, virtual and distance collaboration, and other ways of rethinking across the traditional boundaries of higher education for the world we live in now. The Futures Initiative champions public re-investment in higher education as a social good that contributes to a more just, equitable society.
At the Graduate Center, Davidson will also direct HASTAC@CUNY, bringing some of the central administrative and intellectual leadership of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory to CUNY. Cofounded by Davidson in 2002, HASTAC now has over 13,000 network members dedicated to “Changing the Way We Teach and Learn.” Another favorite HASTAC motto is “Difference is not our deficit; it’s our operating system.”\n
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