Dear Editor in Chief Bennet:
This is a request for the withdrawal and review for corrections of “When High Achievers Have No Place to Go”, which was published today on The Atlantic website, replete with major factual errors and mischaracterizations.
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Equity, Innovation, and Higher Ed as a Public Good
As I described in an earlier post, following extensive discussions with my colleagues and our program’s graduate fellows on the goals and mission of the Futures Initiative, we came to adopt “Equity and Innovation” as our program’s tagline. These are our top priorities—the guiding principles we return to for each project we undertake. They are the elements we consider to be most important in thinking about the future of higher education.
The Invention of Failure: Duke University, Tues Jan 20, 530-700 #futuresEd
The Invention of FailureTuesday, January 20, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Open to the public. Light dinner provided.PhD Lab in Digital KnowledgeJohn Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke UniversitySmith Warehouse, Bay 4, 1st Floor, C106, 114 S. Buchanan ...
The dialectics of dreams and failure: racialized violence as higher education’s “crisis ordinariness”
As a graduate student, part of my research explores our commonly held sensibilities about what it means to educate the public. The assumption is that our educational imaginaries—how we conceive of public education and education’s situatedness within society—structure the material realities of these projects and determine the kinds of work they can do.
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 ensuring the success of every student in equally "rigorous and demanding" courses? That is, what if we decided what we tho...
Collaborative Learning for a Digital Age
This is an excerpt from Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011). It was published, in this condensed format, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle...
Six Reasons Why the Three-Year Degree is a Terrible Idea
In September 2013, I was invited to conduct a workshop on “Transforming Higher Education for the Digital Age” at a Carnegie Institute symposium on The Future of Higher Education. After the session that was full of innovative ideas, a dean from one of the larger University of California campuses stopped me and rather triumphantly announced, “We’re on the verge of implementing the most radical idea of all. Our university is going to a three-year degree. Isn’t that wonderful?”
2014.12.25 – ESTAVA DOENTE E VISITASTE-ME
Tinha sido um jantar magnífico de delicioso, com óptima companhia, clima Africano excelente, filhoses, Bolo Rei, todos os conformes. Ao retirar-me para os meus aposentos, sentindo-me mais do que satisfeito com a vida em geral e o estômago em particular, parecia que não haveria mais nada a fazer no dia seguinte, o Dia de Natal. … Continue reading →
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,000 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 17 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … Continue reading →
This week I learned to stop.
(1 min read) It’s sort of that time of year- lots going on, lots of activity, lots of lots. We went away. Not away from the people, in fact we’ve been a sea of people, but away from the routine, away from the habit, away from mountain of lots to do, and I learned to […]
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What Are We Missing in Higher Ed and How Can We Change It–Today?: Podcast
Bonni Stachoiwiak did a great job interviewing me and editing this podcast on "Teaching in Higher Ed" , "How To See What We're Missing in Higher Ed": http://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/cathy-davidson/ read more
…I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME… (Matthew 25:36)
2014.12.25 …I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME… (Matthew 25:36) It was a grandelicious Christmas dinner, with magnificent company, excellent African weather, filhoses, Bolo Rei, the bits and the pieces. Upon retiring to my quarters, feeling more than content with my life in general and my bellychest in particular, it seemed there was nothing else … Continue reading →
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2014.12.15 ACÇÃO MISSIONÁRIA AURORA – AMA PROJECTO TCHUMA TCHATO EM PARCERIA COM TFI CARTA DE NOTÍCIAS 02/2014/15 – 20141215_TT2014/15_CN02 Caros amigos, apoiantes e futuros apoiantes do Projecto Tchuma Tchato. Antes do mais, quero agradecer a todos que – apesar das vicissitudes que atravessamos no momento as quais não se vê nesga por onde fugir para … Continue reading →
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AURORA MISSIONARY ACTION – AMA TCHUMA TCHATO PROJECT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TFI NEWSLETTER 02/2014/15 – 20141219_TT2014/15_NL02 Dear friends, supporters and future supporters of this Project. I choose to always speak faith. First of all I want to thank you all that, in spite of financial problems – hard to escape from, into a more comforting … Continue reading →
CUNY Professor Featured in NYTimes Article on Community College Teaching
LaGuardia Community College Professor Eduardo Vianna is featured in “Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges,” an illuminating New York Times article by Ginia Bellafante. Vianna’s research and teaching methods, which concentrate on peer learning and student engagement, are very much aligned with the Futures Initiative’s goals. His work has had remarkable results:
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