Higher education institutions are confronting institutional-wide changehaving to revamp their models, merge, or even close outright. At this moment there is a need to think, not just at the 50,000-foot level or deep in the weeds of assessment, but programmatically about the student experience. This volume highlights several innovations undertaken at institutions prioritizing student learning through progressive and liberal arts approaches to education. At various institutional levels, the authors share their experiences initiating new ideas, evaluating effectiveness, changing directions, and incubating novel practices. By exploring these innovations in their unique settings and reflecting on key factors and lessons, this book shares ways educators can locate opportunities for innovation in their own institutions.
Chapter 1. A Startup Guide to Meaningful Institutional Innovation in
Higher Education.
Chapter
2. Meeting the Moment: Responsive Curricula and
Pop-up Courses.
Chapter
3. Breaking the Disciplinary Mold: Structural
Support for Learning Collaboratives as a Vision for Transdisciplinary
Praxis.
Chapter
4. Productive Uncertainty Revisited.
Chapter
5. Wait . . .
Why Are We Doing This? Reflections on Uncertainty, Innovative Pedagogy, and
Self-Evaluation.
Chapter
6. Community Engagement in an Age of Loneliness.-
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7. Creating Educational Communities of Care.
Chapter
8. Educating
Toward Justice: Community Learning, Solidarity, and Transformation.
Chapter
9. Reimagining Faculty Development: Evergreens Tradition of Innovation.-
Chapter
10. Transforming Graduate Education with Student-Centered Models:
Learning from Goddard College's Experience.
Chapter
11. A Project on Unease
in Academia and How It Went (Wrong).
Chapter
12. Innovation as Resilience?
Experiment at Evergreen in the Caribbean (and in This Text about It).-
Chapter
13. Innovation in Volatile Times.
Noah Coburn is Provost and Vice President for Academics, The Evergreen State College, USA.
Ryan Derby-Talbot is Founding President of Abu Dhabi Experiential College, United Arab Emirates.
