May 5th - 1pm EDT
Artificial Learning and Assessment
Keynote Event with Cathy Davidson
Cathy N. Davidson is the 2025 Recipient of the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Higher Education awarded for “pioneering contributions that have advanced learning opportunities andimpacted countless lives.” She has served as Senior Advisor on Transformation to the Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2019-2025 and as Founding Director of the Futures Initiative and Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center (CUNY). Davidson is also Distinguished Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University where she was named the first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, leading innovation in some sixty programs across the university. In 2000 she cofounded and continues to codirect HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, known as“Haystack”), the “world’s first academic social network,” a network of some 18,000 members in over 30 countries. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, in the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab directed by Dr. Alondra Nelson (US representative to the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence).
