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.)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Katherine Jelly and Alan Mandell -- Introduction / Katherine Jelly and Alan Mandell -- Underlying Principles, Ideas and Values: Perennial Questions / Katherine Jelly and Alan Mandell -- Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education / Wayne Carr Willis -- Conflict, Change, and Continuity / Richard F. Bonnabeau -- John Dewey, Constructed Knowing, and Faculty Practice at Empire State College / Xenia Coulter -- Student-Centered Pedagogy / Jelly Katherine and Alan Mandell -- Is the Authority in the Dialogue? A Memorandum / Lee Herman -- Educational Planning at Empire State College / Susan Oaks -- Interdisciplinary Education at Empire State College / Lorraine Lander -- The Cipher and Empire / Himanee Gupta-Carlson -- Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom / Jelly Katherine and Alan Mandell -- “I Don’t Write, I Work” / Rebecca Fraser and Sophia Mavrogiannis -- A Progressive Institution Takes on Academic Support, 21st Century Style / Seana Logsdon and Linda Guyette -- On the Leading Edge / David Starr-Glass -- Inherent Tensions within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at SUNY Empire State College / Nan Travers -- Organizational Frameworks / Jelly Katherine and Alan Mandell -- Organizational Complexity in a Progressive Educational Environment / Lynne M. Wiley -- Technology Meets the Local / Chris Rounds -- Family Feuds, Shotgun Weddings and a Dash of Couples Therapy / Sarah Hertz, , Cathy Leaker, , Rebecca Bonanno and Thalia MacMillan -- Growth and Its Discontents / Cindy Conaway and Christopher Whann -- At a Crossroad / Barry Eisenberg -- Empire State College in a Broader Context / Jelly Katherine and Alan Mandell -- Empire State College / Edward Warzala -- Current Technologies and Their Uses at Empire State College / Betty Hurley -- Implications of Emergent Content, Experimentation, and Resources for Outcomes Assessment at Empire State College / Joyce E. Elliott -- Afterword / Alan Mandell and Katherine Jelly -- About the Contributors / Alan Mandell and Katherine Jelly -- Index / Alan Mandell and Katherine Jelly.