Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education: One Institution’s Struggle to Sustain a Vision

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education....Pages 29-42
Conflict, Change, and Continuity....Pages 43-64
John Dewey, Constructed Knowing, and Faculty Practice at Empire State College....Pages 65-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Is the Authority in the Dialogue? A Memorandum....Pages 93-109
Educational Planning at Empire State College....Pages 111-132
Interdisciplinary Education at Empire State College....Pages 133-147
The Cipher and Empire....Pages 149-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
“I Don’t Write, I Work”....Pages 167-181
A Progressive Institution Takes on Academic Support, 21st Century Style....Pages 183-200
On the Leading Edge....Pages 201-213
Inherent Tensions Within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at Suny Empire State College....Pages 215-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-242
Organizational Complexity in a Progressive Educational Environment....Pages 243-254
Technology Meets the Local....Pages 255-272
Family Feuds, Shotgun Weddings and a Dash of Couples Therapy....Pages 273-293
Growth and its Discontents....Pages 295-311
At a Crossroad....Pages 313-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Empire State College....Pages 339-356
Current Technologies and Their Uses at Empire State College....Pages 357-374
Implications of Emergent Content, Experimentation, and Resources for Outcomes Assessment at Empire State College....Pages 375-391
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Afterword....Pages 393-398
Back Matter....Pages 399-412