Episode 19: "The New Education"

My thanks to CUNY SPS and CUNY Tech Meetup for playing such
wonderful hosts to this event, a live interview with Professor
Cathy N. Davidson, Director of The Futures Initiative at City
University of New York, and one of the country's most respected
scholars on the topic of higher education reform. We're joined by
Temitayo Fagbenle, a Queens College student and award winning
youth journalist with WNYC's Radio Rookies.


In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson reveals that we
desperately need a revolution in higher learning if we want our
students to succeed in our age of precarious work and
technological disruption. Journeying from elite private schools
to massive public universities to innovative community colleges,
she profiles iconoclastic educators who are remaking their
classrooms by emphasizing creativity, collaboration, and
adaptability over expertise in a single, often abstract
discipline. Working at the margins of the establishment, these
innovators are breaking down barriers between ossified fields of
study, presenting their students with multidisciplinary,
real-world problems, and teaching them not just how to think, but
how to learn. The New Education ultimately shows how we
can educate students not only to survive but to thrive amid the
challenges to come.


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