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At its founding in 1971, Empire State College (ESC) entered an American scene bustling with new schools and programs in revolt against the status quo at all levels of education. Identifying their institutions variously as experimenting, alternative, innovative, free, open, or nontraditional, dissenting educators infrequently chose to call their ventures “progressive.”
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Willis, W.C. (2017). Empire State College and the Conflicted Legacy of Progressive Higher Education. In: Jelly, K., Mandell, A. (eds) Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-884-6_2
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