A Union of Voices: Accounts of the Union Institute & University

About the Book

A Union of Voices: Accounts of the Union Institute & University is the long awaited book about the history of this progressive institution. A nontraditional history about a nontraditional university, this book tells the educational story of UI&U from its origins at a Goddard College conference through its expansion to become one of the most innovative and experimental institutions of higher education in the United States. Covering the early days when it was located at Antioch University through the creation of the University Without Walls to the 2001 addition of Vermont College, these accounts from former presidents, administrators, deans, faculty, alumni/ae, and learners in different points of view document for the first time the history of one of the most ground-breaking educational experiments in America.

About the Author

Constance Cappel, PhD compiled and edited A Union of Voices: Accounts of the Union Institute & University. She is both a writer and an educator having received her PhD in 1991 from the Union Institute & University. Dr. Cappel is presently the Vice0president of the Graduate Alumnae/i Board of the UI&U. She served on the GAB board from 1991-94 and again was elected to be on from 1999-2005. As the author of Utopian Colleges, she was asked many times to write a history of UI&U. She used the six oral histories gathered for the GAB board and let the others in this historical compellation speak in their own voices.