ABOUT THIS BOOKFaculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a guide by Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene for all fellow faculty who want to improve the future of higher education, especially in challenging times.
Faculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a “how to” guide for academic colleagues who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. There is no going back to the version of US higher education that existed twenty, ten, or even one year ago. Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene encourage faculty and allies to incite and participate in change by offering models of successful, constructive collaboration at a destructive and demoralizing time for higher education. Faculties focuses on the urgency of coalition-building, offering data and analyses of the structural, financial, ideological, and organizational circumstances that can support or inhibit productive change in colleges, universities, and research institutions. Presented in the form of dialogues between Davidson and Greene, two of higher education’s most innovative leaders, Faculties retains a welcoming, conversational tone while incorporating extensive references and citations and addressing the drastic changes to higher education since January 2025. Faculties offers the evidence and inspiration needed to enact institutional transformation now.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYCathy N. Davidson is Distinguished Professor and Founder of The Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Jody Greene is Professor of Literature and Founding Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
REVIEWS“Faculties is for anyone who wants institutional change and hasn’t fallen prey to cynicism or defeatism. The authors know their subject as well as anyone, and they impart their knowledge gracefully. Amidst a crisis in higher education provoked by a mercurial government, the ethos the authors embody arms us for the work to preserve our educational enterprise.”
-- Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University