Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education

1. Introduction
Katherine Jelly, Alan Mandell

Section I. Underlying Principles, Ideas and Values: Perennial Questions

2. Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education
Wayne Carr Willis

3. Conflict, Change, and Continuity
Richard F. Bonnabeau

4. John Dewey, Constructed Knowing, and Faculty Practice at Empire State College
Xenia Coulter

Section II. Student-Centered Pedagogy

5. Is the Authority in the Dialogue? A Memorandum
Lee Herman

6. Educational Planning at Empire State College
Susan Oaks

7. Interdisciplinary Education at Empire State College
Lorraine Lander

8. The Cipher and Empire
Himanee Gupta-Carlson

Section III. Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom

9. “I Don’t Write, I Work”
Rebecca Fraser, Sophia Mavrogiannis

10. A Progressive Institution Takes on Academic Support, 21st Century Style
Seana Logsdon, Linda Guyette

11. On the Leading Edge
David Starr-Glass

12. Inherent Tensions Within the Practices of Prior Learning Assessment at Suny Empire State College
Nan Travers

Section IV. Organizational Frameworks

13. Organizational Complexity in a Progressive Educational Environment
Lynne M. Wiley

14. Technology Meets the Local
Chris Rounds

15. Family Feuds, Shotgun Weddings and a Dash of Couples Therapy
Sarah Hertz, Cathy Leaker, Rebecca Bonanno, Thalia Macmillan

16. Growth and its Discontents
Cindy Conaway, Christopher Whann

17. At a Crossroad
Barry Eisenberg

Section V. Empire State College in a Broader Context

18. Empire State College
Edward Warzala

19. Current Technologies and Their Uses at Empire State College
Betty Hurley

20. Implications of Emergent Content, Experimentation, and Resources for Outcomes Assessment at Empire State College
Joyce E. Elliott

21. Afterword
Alan Mandell, Katherine Jelly

Keywords: Education, Education, general