College Unbound is a degree-completion college working to ensure all adult learners are valued as scholar-practitioners and have access to a bachelor's degree. As College Unbound has developed over the past decade, they have tried to interrogate what education for the public good means. College Unbound advances the public good inside three integrated curricular structures that enrolled students pursue concurrently: local, in-person seminars; intensive online courses; and a robust "Learning in Public" program. College Unbound serves as a model for adaptation as an institutional ethic that can fuel continued development and iterative assessment in response to student needs, exemplifying a commitment to the public good that moves the focus on higher education from "how it is" to "how it could be."