Meredith Davis is Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at NC State University, where she taught for 26 years and served as Department Head of Graphic Design, Director of Graduate Programs in Graphic Design, and Director of the interdisciplinary PhD in Design program. Meredith has received numerous teaching awards, including the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence (the university’s highest faculty award), Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, and the College of Design nomination for the UNC Board of Governor’s Award. She is listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers and Who’s Who in American Art. Meredith is a former president of the American Center for Design and the founding president of the Graphic Design Education Association. She served on the NASAD task force on the Future of Design Education and on the AIGA Designer 2015 advisory group. Meredith has conducted more than 100 academic program reviews and con in the US and 10 countries and 60 external reviews of faculty for promotion and tenure. She has delivered nearly 200 lectures nationally and internationally. She has written 6 books and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of Design Issues, She Ji, and Visible Language. She is currently working on a book that challenges the persistence of a 20th century pedagogy in college design programs.

Meredith’s research explores the relationship between design and learning. She has served as a member of the development team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts and the National Assessment of Educational Progress in Technology and Engineering Design Literacy for the National Assessment Governing Board and Educational Testing Service (ETS). She participated in the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership for the US Department of Education, taught for the Performance Assessment Collaboratives with Education (a Rockefeller-funded research unit of the Harvard Graduate School of Education), and served as a consultant to a number of state departments of education. She has conducted faculty training programs, including for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Meredith also authored the NC State University Quality Enhancement Plan for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, a five-year study of teaching Critical and Creative Thinking across the university.