Impacts of Innovative Institutions in Higher Education

Noah Coburn is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Goddard College, USA, a school with a deep history of innovation and democratic pedagogies.Ryan Derby-Talbot is a mathematician and the Dean of the College at Deep Springs College, USA, a two-year college and working cattle ranch.

• Introduction: How Innovative Institutions Enrich Higher Education.- Webs of Connection and Moments of Friction: Dynamics of Ownership and Relationship Between Students and Faculty at a Small Innovative College.- After Eden: The Civic and Social Potential of Innovative Higher Education.- Empowering Students Through Evaluation: Over 50 Years Without Grades at Hampshire College.- Innovating as an Embedded Program at a Larger State University: New College in Three Pivotal Moments.- El Colegio Chicano Del Pueblo: Decolonizing Chicano Education and the Search for Self-Determination.- Agility or Stability: Can a School Have Both in Faculty Hiring?.- Innovative Scheduling: The Intensive Delivery of Higher Education.- The Role of Mentoring in Innovative Progressive Institutions.- When Innovative Universities Fail: Quest University, Partnerships, Financial Sustainability.- Assessment, Outcomes, and Innovation in Higher Education.- Beyond “Innovation”: Lessons for Making Change inHigher Educational Institutions.