Alternative Higher Education & Its Relevance to the 1980's

Accession 1982-09

Alternative Higher Education and Its Relevance to the 1980's Conference

September 8 through 10, 1981

(NOTE: Most but not all of the texts of this conference are also available in the publication Against the Current: Reform and Experimentation in Higher Education (LA227.3.A3397 1984) edited by Richard M. Jones and Barbara Leigh Smith)

Panel 1: Disciplines, Professions and Interdisciplinary Studies: The Prospects for the 1980's
- Disciplinary Professionalism: Two Views on the Developing Context for Alternative Colleges:

Weaver, Frederick S., Hampshire College: First View.
Hahn, Jeanne, the Evergreen State College: Second View

Discussants: Euben, J. Peter, University of California, Santa Cruz; Knapp, Rob, The Evergreen State College.
Panel 2: Comparative Studies of Alternative Education Institutions: St. Olafs, Western College, Stockton College, and the Grand Valley State Colleges.

Discussants: Ingersoll, Virginia, The Evergreen State College and Perkins, John, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 3: Changing Demography of Higher Education: Models for Educating the Adult Learner.

Discussants: Gaff, Jerry, Project GEM and Gribskov, Margaret, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 4: Institutional Models: The Evergreen State College.

Youtz, Byron. The Evergreen State College. An Experiment Maturing.

Discussants: Jones, Richard , The Evergreen State College and Teske, Charles, The Evergreen State College

Panel 5: Innovation in Very Large Universities.

Discussant: Monk, Stephen, University of Washington.

Panel 6: The Goddard-Pitkin Legacy

Discussants: Drury, George, Empire State College; Kytle, Jackson, Antioch University; Pitkin, Royce, Founding and Retired President, Goddard College.

Panel 7: Institutional Models: Stockton State College

Discussant: Schwartz, Richard, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 8: Lessons from Failure and Strategies for Survival, Panel 1.

Discussants: Engoff, John, University of Vermont; Mulka, Art, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 9: Conditions that Stimulate Improvement and Innovation: The Role of Foundations and Governmental Change Agents.

Discussant: Norris, Gail, Council for Postsecondary Education.

Panel 10: Institutional Models: The University of California at Santa Cruz.
- Discussant: Brown, Bill, the Evergreen State College.
Panel 11: Faculty as a Factor in Experimentation.

Discussants: Finkel, Don, The Evergreen State College and Walfish, the Evergreen State College.

Panel 12: Experiments in Minority Education.

Discussant: Cofield, Amos, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

Panel 13: The Meikeljohn Legacy

Discussant: Butts, R. Freeman, Stanford University.

Panel 14: Lessons from Failure and Strategies for Survival, Panel 2.

Discussants: Pete Sinclair, The Evergreen State College and Wong, York, The Evergreen State College.

Panel 15: A Cross Generation View of the Conference: Trends, Questions and Implications for Following Through.
- Crowley, Ralph and Crawford, Lisle - Chairs. (Alexander Meiklejohn Experimental College Foundation),
- Participants: Members of the Faculty, Students and Alumni; The Evergreen State College.

Alternative Higher Education Conference Bibliography