The Impacts of Innovative Institutions in Higher Education von Noah Coburn/Ryan Derby-Talbot

As they have done historically, innovative institutions enrich the college ecosystem, helping the higher educational industry develop flexible resilience. The chapters in this book showcase perspectives, hard-won lessons, challenges and provocative ideas about how historically innovative institutions can contribute to the current discourse on innovation in higher education. The chapters in this book include case studies of innovative campuses and practices, as well as future-looking directions for innovation. Taken together, they ask, is there a way to consider how future trends can be navigated in effective ways, so that the most important features of higher education--student learning, the liberal arts, the cultivation of critical thinking--can remain central to tomorrows institutions?

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.