Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education : One Institution’s Struggle to Sustain a Vision / / edited by Katherine Jelly, Alan Mandell.

• HerausgeberIn: Jelly, Katherine.; Mandell, Alan.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CDXII, 10 p.)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Underlying Principles, Ideas and Values: Perennial Questions /; Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education /; Conflict, Change, and Continuity /; John Dewey, Constructed Knowing, and Faculty Practice at Empire State College /; Student-Centered Pedagogy /; Is the Authority in the Dialogue? A Memorandum /; Educational Planning at Empire State College /; Interdisciplinary Education at Empire State College /; The Cipher and Empire /; Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom /; “I Don’t Write, I Work” /; A Progressive Institution Takes on Academic Support, 21st Century Style /; On the Leading Edge /; Inherent Tensions within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at SUNY Empire State College /; Organizational Frameworks /; Organizational Complexity in a Progressive Educational Environment /; Technology Meets the Local /; Family Feuds, Shotgun Weddings and a Dash of Couples Therapy /; Growth and Its Discontents /; At a Crossroad /; Empire State College in a Broader Context /; Empire State College /; Current Technologies and Their Uses at Empire State College /; Implications of Emergent Content, Experimentation, and Resources for Outcomes Assessment at Empire State College /; Afterword /; About the Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9463008845
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Katherine Jelly, Alan Mandell.

In this multi-faceted case study of one progressive institution of adult higher education, the editors and contributors to the volume lay out significant challenges confronting not just non-traditional post-secondary colleges and universities but all institutions of higher education in today’s rapidly changing context. Contending that nontraditional institutions are especially challenged in these turbulent times, they argue that these organizations’ distinctive academic programs are among the most threatened in the landscape of higher education today. The 19 essays that make up this volume highlight and examine key creative tensions, rich interplays of emphases and values in higher education, in order to illuminate and address more intentionally the questions that we must address: Can we make constructive use of these tensions? Can we recognize what is at stake? And can we chart a course that will both respond innovatively to rapid change and sustain a vision and the purposes and principles on which that vision rests? Taken as a whole, this volume sheds light on the questions and creative tensions that can, with thoughtful attention, help to keep an alternative, progressive vision of adult higher education alive.