Principles, Practices, And Creative Tensions In Progressive Higher Education: One Institution's Struggle To Sustain A Vision
by Katherine Jelly /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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.
