Can Higher Education Be Integral?
Caught between the push to be effective and the pull to be efficient, how can higher ed best respond to the challenges it faces today?
Welcome to Integral Studies
This site is dedicated to a vision of higher education where students, faculty and staff alike can bring their full selves to study, teach and work together in a free society.
Once again, people are turning to sources of wisdom both ancient and modern as questions about life’s evolutionary potential emerge in our individual and collective consciousness.
While this potential comes with promise and pitfalls, higher education would seem well-suited for engaging knowledge of this moment with rigor and responsibility in the studies it offers.
It is important, then, that we remember higher ed’s practical appeal to reason – and its capacity for its own critique – restoring and defending the conditions of its claim as necessary.
In this way, each and every one of us might pursue higher learning as we see fit, reflective of our reason’s inner light, and integral to life’s potential for immanence and transcendence today.
Can Higher Education Be Integral?
Caught between the push to be effective and the pull to be efficient, how can higher ed respond to the challenges it faces today?
Highlights
Every Student Counts
An Integral Potential
What About Accreditation?
A Triple Process
Our Roadmap
Past, Present and Future
Forthcoming
Special Topic: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Mass Species Extinction
What do integral studies have to say?
Site Overview
Can Higher Ed Be Integral?
Higher education can renew and rediscover its purpose when it values the interests of all its stakeholders, mindful of the rationality potential of their perspectives include, and recognizing the potential for consciousness and transformation herein.
What About Accreditation?
Through a process of recognition, reflection and review, accreditation can ensure higher education’s use of reason is not limited or restricted by its need to function as a system.
Test Case
Studies that are explicitly integral have been proving themselves in California [at CIIS] for more than fifty years. Since 2000, however, they have become increasingly undifferentiated from the regional accreditor’s administrative functioning affecting their trajectory to this day.
“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
About Us
Meet Our Founder
This site was created and is curated by Michael Fosler, who studied and worked at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently, he is advancing integral education through work at a start-up and a non-profit, while working on publishing his doctoral dissertation as a book.
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