Poets from all over the world talk about their work, their language, and poetry - “the language within a language”

Leonard Schwartz is aiming to engage listeners, and encourage deeper intercultural appreciation by broadcasting international poetry, described on the Cross Cultural Poetics program as “the language within a language.”

And his work is reaching broad audiences. Through his program, he is reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners, and introducing poets, fiction writers, philosophers, composers, theater directors translators, editors and publishers from cultures across the planet to new audiences -- and to one another.

Only 3 percent of the books published in America are in translation (as opposed to say 30% or 40% published in translation in Germany or France), says Schwartz. “This has serious implications for how we hear –or cannot hear – other cultures,” he adds.

Cross Cultural Poetics is distinctive in that it offers listeners the chance to hear from voices across the world, in translation and in their own languages. Episodes have taped the work of poets from every continent outside Antarctica.

“Finding out where language is used in new ways, and figuring out what constitutes the new in a given cultural constellation or milieu, is always a challenge”, says Schwartz. “But if poetry is the enemy of the obvious we have to look for it far and wide.”

Cross Cultural Poetics is produced at KAOS 89.3 FM, on The Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, Washington and is archived and distributed globally at PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania.

More than 230 episodes are available at PennSound. There listeners will find notable poets such as the Chilean poet Raul Zurita, the Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite, and the American poet Anne Waldman talking about poetry from multiple perspectives.

The program can also be heard on KAOS 89.3FM on Thursday’s at 8PM.

About the host: Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including his newest 2011 work, At Element (Talisman House), A Message Back And Other Furors (Chax), The Library Of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Tower Of Diverse Shores (Talisman House), Words Before The Articulate (Talisman House), and Language As Responsibility (Tinfish Editions).

Cross Cultural Poetics is produced at KAOS 89.3FM, Olympia, Washington in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s PennSound.

There are currently 20 Evergreen undergraduate alumni and six graduate alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers

Corps service every year,” said Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams. “These alumni go on to serve as Peace Corps volunteers, applying the skills and knowledge they acquired during their studies to promote world peace and friendship and improve the lives of people around the world. Every day, volunteers make countless contributions to projects in agriculture, education, the environment, health and HIV/AIDS education and prevention, small business development, and youth development. I would like to extend my gratitude to all colleges and universities for their continued support of the Peace Corps and public service.”

Since 1961, more than 200 Evergreen alumni have served as Peace Corps volunteers.

, Peace Corps volunteers work in 76 countries in the areas of education, youth and community development, health and HIV/AIDS, small business development, and communication technology, agriculture and environment.

Other Washington colleges and universities that placed on the 2012 Top Colleges rankings are University of Washington in Seattle (rank 2 in large category), Western Washington University in Bellingham (rank 2 in medium category), Gonzaga University in Spokane (rank 2 in small category), and Seattle University in Seattle (rank 8 in small category).

For the full list, including graduate schools, visit http://multimedia.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2012.pdf (pdf)

About the Peace Corps: Since President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order on March 1, 1961, more than 200,000 Americans have served in 139 host countries. Today, 9,095 volunteers are working with local communities in 75 host countries. Peace Corps volunteers must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age. Peace Corps service is a 27-month commitment and the agency’s mission is to promote world peace and friendship and a better understanding between Americans and people of other countries.

The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at Evergreen has received a $40,000 grant to strengthen arts and cultures infrastructure from the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation.

According to Longhouse Director Tina Kuckkahn-Miller, the grant will be used to support a variety of cultural activities throughout this coming year, such as bringing indigenous artists to lecture and create art at Evergreen, supporting our annual Native youth art event, and other arts-related activities.

“We are committed to supporting the preservation of ancient art forms, while also providing a venue for contemporary artistic expression,” says Kuckkahn-Miller. “Funding from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation will help us deepen our work within the Pacific Northwest region, and we are grateful for their support.”

Details about the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation and other grantees can be found in the following news release (pdf).

Prospective students and family members are encouraged to attend this full-day event and visit with current Evergreen students, faculty and staff during workshops on student life, academic planning, financial aid and more.

The introduction to Preview Day will be streamed live for those unable to attend the full day's schedule of activities.

The live webcast will take place Saturday January 14 from 9 am to 10:30 am PST.

Visit this page on Saturday to stream the video.

"We all have our perspective on what's not working, whether the topic is politics, media, the environment, or the economy," says Michael Zimmerman, Evergreen's academic vice president and provost. "The newest Evergreen Magazine offers a different focus. It highlights what is working and tells the stories of people with ties to Olympia — Greeners with inspiring stories, who simply make the world better."

The magazine celebrates 40 years of The Evergreen State College and includes profiles of leaders with Olympia connections, including Evergreen alumni at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, The Nature Conservancy, The Washington State Court of Appeals, and the US Agency for International Development, among others.

Ranging from business and non-profit innovators to environmental, health and civil rights advocates, the magazine highlights some of the contributions of the 40,000 alumni of The Evergreen State College.

The stories can be found online at www.evergreen.edu/magazine.

One of the stories is about Dan Tishman of Tishman Construction (Evergreen Class of 1977), the construction managers for One World Trade Center as well as WTC Towers 3 and 4 and a host of other iconic projects in the United States and around the world. Tishman also chairs the board of trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council and has become an international leader in green building.

"Liberal arts education develops the ability to think critically, act creatively, and integrate information from many perspectives," says Zimmerman. "This is what a rapidly changing world requires, and the Evergreen alumni featured in our latest magazine are putting those capabilities to work in amazing ways."

Past issues of the Evergreen Magazine focused on themes including business and entrepreneurship, science and medicine, food, media and technology, politics and public service, the environment, and more. These are also available online at www.evergreen.edu/magazine/archives.htm.

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A High School Math Event was hosted by The Evergreen State College on Saturday, with support from a grant from the National Science Foundation and tests provided by mathleague.org.

There were 65 participating students from six high schools [Henry Foss HS, North Thurston HS, Olympia HS, River Ridge HS, Stadium HS, and West Linn HS (from West Linn, OR)]. Seventeen students qualified to go on the State Championship round, which will be held at The Evergreen State College on April 21, 2012.

Co-Directors, and Evergreen faculty, Vauhn Foster-Grahler and Brian Walter handed out awards to individual winners by grade level, to overall individual winners, to the best overall school teams and to the best Freshman/Sophomore teams.

Here are the results:

Overall Team Winners:

• Championship Team: Olympia HS
• 2nd Place Team: River Ridge HS
• 3rd Place Team: North Thurston HS

Freshman/Sophomore Team Winners:

• 1st Place Frosh/Soph Team: Olympia HS
• 2nd Place Frosh/Soph Team: River Ridge HS
• 3rd Place Frosh/Soph Team: West Linn HS

Overall Individual Winners:

• 1st Place: Ray Ma, Olympia HS (impressive because he's just a Junior)
• 2nd Place: Ernest Gu, Olympia HS (extra-impressive because he's just a Freshman!)
• 3rd Place: Gehn Ferguson, Olympia HS

Grade Level Winners:

• 9th grade 1st Place: Ernest Gu, Olympia HS
• 9th grade 2nd Place: Emily Yeh, Henry Foss HS
• 9th grade 3rd Place: Ian Culhane, Olympia HS

• 10th grade 1st Place: Sherwin Shabdar, Olympia HS
• 10th grade 2nd Place: Eric Sundberg, River Ridge HS
• 10th grade 3rd Place: Dante Huerta, River Ridge HS

• 11th grade 1st Place: Ray Ma, Olympia HS
• 11th grade 2nd Place: David Cregg, North Thurston HS
• 11th grade 3rd Place: (tie) Jooneil Ahn, North Thurston HS, and Scott Vannerson, North Thurston HS

• 12th grade 1st Place: Gehn Ferguson, Olympia HS
• 12th grade 2nd Place: James Lee, Olympia HS
• 12th grade 3rd Place: Chris Han, Stadium HS

The tournament consisted of the following tests (for more information about these tests and how they’re scored, see http://mathleague.org/hstests.php): ·

• Team Test (20 minutes for 10 problems, solved as a team, calculators allowed) ·
• Target Test (individual; 8 problems, given 2 at a time with 10 minutes per pair of problems, no calculators) ·
• Sprint Test (individual; 60 minutes for 30 multiple-choice problems, calculators allowed) ·
• Relay Test (5 multi-part problems, each problem solved as a 3-person team in individual stages, no calculators)

As an innovative public liberal arts college, Evergreen emphasizes collaborative, interdisciplinary learning across significant differences. Our academic community engages students in defining and thinking critically about their learning. Evergreen supports and benefits from local and global commitment to social justice, diversity, environmental stewardship and service in the public interest.

This exciting day of competition will feature four events (two individual events and two team events). Prizes will be awarded to teams and individuals.

This event is hosted by The Evergreen State College, with support from a grant from the National Science Foundation and tests provided by mathleague.org.

A new feature of this year’s tournament is that there will be two sets of team prizes, one for teams consisting only of Freshmen & Sophomores and one for overall teams.

Here is a postable flyer with some information about the tournament.

The tournament will consist of the following tests (for more information about these tests and how they’re scored, see http://mathleague.org/hstests.php): ·

• Team Test (20 minutes for 10 problems, solved as a team, calculators allowed) ·
• Target Test (individual; 8 problems, given 2 at a time with 10 minutes per pair of problems, no calculators) ·
• Sprint Test (individual; 60 minutes for 30 multiple-choice problems, calculators allowed) ·
• Relay Test (5 multi-part problems, each problem solved as a 3-person team in individual stages, no calculators)

All participants who score 50% or better in any single event at this tournament will be invited to the Washington Regional Championship, to be held at Evergreen on Saturday, April 21, 2012!

For more information and to register, please visit
http://blogs.evergreen.edu/mathtourney
This event is free!
Space is limited, so register early.
Questions? E-mail bwalter@evergreen.edu.

The art fair will feature 30 artists selling works in all price ranges and media. Customary and contemporary art in carving, printmaking, basketry, textiles, knits, ceramics, jewelry, painting, weaving, Southwest jewelry, board games and much more will be available. The Longhouse Native art fair features the work of some of the area’s best artists who also sell at shows such as National Museum of the American Indian Gustav Heye Center in New York City, the annual Southwest Indian Market in Santa Fe and the Heard Museum show in Phoenix.

And if you’re hungry, the Hazel Pete Institute of Chehalis Basketry will be running a food booth to raise money for the annual Generations Rising Native Youth Art day in March. Frybread, Indian tacos, gwídəq chowder, desserts, beverages will be available for sale.

For more information visit the Longhouse events page.

AND if your day could use even more art on Friday December 9th after the art fair, please come to the Evergreen Gallery between 5-7 for a show Cultural Connections that will feature the works of Marwin Begaye, Peter Boome, and prints by participants in their workshops as well as that of visiting Hawaiian artist, Herman Pi’ikea Clark who will offer a short artist talk and interactive art demonstration. The workshops and exhibition are supported with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Native Arts and Culture Foundation and the Ford Foundation. We couldn’t have done this without the support of Erin Oly and Judith Baumann, The Evergreen State College print shop and Ann Friedman, director of the Evergreen Gallery.

For more information visit the Longhouse events page.

Speakers Share Thoughts for Establishing and Re-establishing Networks of Support and Stability for Returning Veterans

The Evergreen State College ‘Bringing our Veterans Back Home’ event on November 8 at 10 a.m. at the Tacoma campus and November 10 at noon at the Olympia campus will draw together veterans and their supporters. The events will include perspectives from Evergreen staff, students and faculty as well as thoughts from community members involved in programs to help veterans succeed once they return home.

Master of Ceremonies

Lyndel Egolf

Evergreen Staff

Lyndel Egolf joined the Navy in 1973 and was honorably discharged in 1978 after spending over three of those years as a Radioman at Naval Communication Station (NAVCOMSTA), Rota, Spain. Following her Navy experience she received her Associate Degree, spent time working in the construction field and joined the Air Force Reserve, as a carpenter in a Primary Base Engineering Emergency Force at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, CA, while at the same time returning to college at CSU Sacramento to complete her Bachelor Degree. Egolf recently completed her Master of Public Administration degree at Evergreen and is currently utilizing the Office of Veterans Business Development to assist her in starting a small business of her own.

Presenters

Colonel (Retired) Mary Forbes

Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs

Mary Forbes has served as the Assistant Director of Veterans Services and Behavioral Health for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs in Olympia Washington since July 2010. Forbes graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1983 and the US Army War College in 2006. She has served on active duty for over 26 years in a variety of positions for the Washington Army National Guard and the United States Army. Between 2006 and 2010, Forbes was appointed by Governor Gregoire to serve on two boards to assist with veteran issues and to develop programs to enhance the quality of life of veterans and their families: The Governor’s Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee (VAAC), and the Veterans Innovations Program (VIP). She also served as a one of the founding board members for the non-profit organization “Hire America’s Heroes.”

Elisia Fernandez Mutter

Therapeutic Riding Instructor

Elisia Fernandez Mutter has been involved with horses all her life – as horse owner, competitor, and over the last 7 years as an instructor. She is a recent graduate of South Puget Sound Community College and is currently attending Evergreen after a career in business management. In 2010, she completed certifications as a Therapeutic Riding Instructor and Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning to become the Volunteer Coordinator and Instructor for Rainier Therapeutic Riding. Rainier Therapeutic Riding is a 501c3 organization founded by Debbi Fisher. The program offers therapeutic horsemanship lessons to active duty and veteran service members with disabilities at no cost to the service member. The program uses the horse’s natural state of hyper-awareness and unique ability to mirror human emotions to help veterans gain confidence, re- balance, build core strength and reduce anxiety.

Suzanne Simons

Evergreen Faculty

Suzanne Simons has worked with veteran, active duty military personnel and dependent students through programs she has taught at Evergreen since 1996 in writing, journalism, Middle East studies, and religion and community studies. Her oldest son, Taylor, is in the Marines Early Recruitment Program and will go boot camp after graduating from Olympia High School next summer.

Following the film, audience members will have a chance to participate in a question and answer session via Skype with Academy Award nominated writer/director John Sayles. More... (PDF)

Evergreen Tacoma Location Information

Members of an Evergreen ‘Name Change Committee’ recently announced that the US Board of Geographic Names has approved the name change of “Squaw Point” on the Eld Inlet beach of The Evergreen State College to the ancestral indigenous name: “Bushoowah-ahlee Point.”

The name “Bushoowah-ahlee Point” was requested in a joint application by The Evergreen State College and the Squaxin Island Tribe to identify the northernmost point of the campus.

The beach sits on a cape on the property of the college (by the Geoduck House). The Evergreen State College, including Bushoowah-ahlee Point, is part of the land base that was ceded by the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes in 1854. The location for Bushoowah-ahlee Point has long been recognized as a meeting place for the Coast Salish people living on the southern inlets of the Salish Sea.

“We changed this place name both out of respect for Native women, and out of respect for the language that has been spoken on this land since long before our state or campus was founded,” says Art Costantino, chair of the ‘Name Change Committee’ and vice president for student affairs at Evergreen.

The effort to rename the point began during fall 2009 when a group of staff were reviewing maps of the campus for hazard mitigation purposes. Members of the Evergreen staff were surprised to see that a portion of the college's property on Eld Inlet was designated as "Squaw Point."

Wrong term, wrong region

While the roots of the term “squaw” lie in the Algonquin language on the East Coast, it has evolved to take on a more derogatory meaning that is not an appropriate reference for indigenous women, and particularly not the indigenous women of the Coast Salish region, thousands of miles removed from Algonquin territory.

With the support of the college, a group of faculty, staff and students has been meeting to initiate a change in the name. The group includes Longhouse staff, Evergreen’s First Peoples' Advising Services, and students, staff and faculty.

Specifically, ‘Name Change Committee’ members included Chair and Vice President for Student Affairs, Art Costantino; Longhouse Staff Members Tina Kuckkahn-Miller and Laura Grabhorn; faculty members Frances Rains and Zoltan Grossman; Raquel Salinas of First Peoples Advising Services; students Derek Jones and Shonri Begay, and College Engineer, Rich Davis.

A process of consultation and research

The group consulted with the Squaxin Island Tribe, who historically owned the land, and with whom Evergreen has a long-standing and valued positive relationship.

The State of Washington encourages state agencies to work directly with tribes -- on issues such as this name change -- as part of the 1989 Centennial Accord and the 1999 New Millennium Agreement, which encourage government-to-government collaborative actions that benefit both entities. Evergreen honors these government to government relationships established by the Centennial Accord and affirmed by the Millennium Agreement (see www.goia.wa.gov) through its partnership with the Squaxin Island Tribe.

Squaxin Island appointed Lushootseed language scholar Zalmai Zahir to research the ancestral name of the area. Mr. Zahir had worked for many years with the late Vi Hilbert (Upper Skagit) who was the region’s primary Lushootseed language expert and scholar on indigenous place names of the region around the Salish Sea.

Mr. Zahir documented the original place name in Thomas Talbot Waterman’s 1922 book Puget Sound Geography. Waterman was an anthropologist who was most interested in recording Native languages and cultures and depicting how those languages appeared phonetically. He traveled widely in the area and among the many things he collected, he also collected geographic names. A recent reproduction (by Vi Hilbert, Jay Miller, and Zalmai Zahir) contains Waterman’s original manuscript. T.T. Waterman lists the name of the point as B1cuwa'3ali, (1= uh, c=sh, and 3= glottal stop in his orthography).

The name Bushoowah-ahlee is very old and there isn't a comparable English translation. The Squaxin Island Tribe has requested that the phonetic spelling of the name in the Roman alphabet be officially adopted, rather than the Lushootseed alphabet. The ancestral name, Bushoowah-ahlee Point serves as a reminder of the history of this place that goes much further back in time than the mid-nineteenth century and offers a the chance to appreciate the area as it was originally known.

Community Recognition; Official Recognition

As of September 15, 2011, the US Board on Geographic Names recognized the beach officially by its original name. Bushoowah-ahlee Point is now in the USBGN's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). At the Washington State level, Caleb Maki of the Washington Board on Geographic Names has directed the Washington DNR cartography office to change Squaw Point to Bushoowah-ahlee Point on any new state maps.

The change is automatic on all federal maps, according to a geographer on the faculty, Zoltan Grossman.

The name change enjoyed tremendous support from the Evergreen community. Students working with First People’s Advising gathered some 300 letters of support from students, staff and faculty for the name change.

Evergreen’s Board of Trustees also offered its support for the change, and a Geoduck Student Union initiative was backed by 87 percent of students in the Spring 2010 election.

Next spring, there will be a celebration to mark the official name change, to coincide with the campus’s Day of Absence/Day of Presence events and the official start of the Salish New Year.

Silent and Live Auctions will include curated, original artwork in a variety of media from Tom Anderson, Greg Colfax, Joe Feddersen, Tina Hoggatt, Nikki McClure, Paul McKee and many other established artists.

The event will also include the opportunity for participants to bid on art experiences like an in-home concert, dining experiences, boat tours, and more.

The Art of Living in 2010 was a resounding success, raising more than $63,000 for direct student scholarship support.

Throughout the current 2011-12 academic year, Evergreen is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its first graduating class and wishes to honor and thank the many community members, faculty, students, staff and alumni that have made us a relevant force for good through the decades.

To learn more and purchase tickets for the event, please visit the Art of Living website at http://give.evergreen.edu/artofliving/.

Evergreen Recognized for Learning Communities Approach

Highlights:

• The Evergreen State College was included in 2012 ‘Best Colleges’ Guide, ranking among the top regional institutions in the West, and in the top 10 ranked public institutions in the West.
• Evergreen received accolades for its focus on teaching, for its first year experience, and for its “learning community” approach.
• The “Best Colleges” recognition is the latest in a series of strong showings for Evergreen in college rankings, including accolades in the Fiske Guide, Sierra Magazine, and Princeton Review.

Evergreen was recently categorized among the best universities in the western region by US News and World Report. The western region includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Evergreen’s distinctive “learning communities” approach was highlighted by a peer assessment survey conducted by US News. Under the category “learning communities,” in the article “A focus on student success” Evergreen was listed among only 18 nationwide. Learning communities are a way of structuring curriculum to link together coursework so students find greater coherence in what they are learning and achieve more interactions with faculty and peers. In this same article, Evergreen was noted for a strong showing in providing first year orientation to college.

The ‘Best Colleges’ recognition is the latest in a series of recognitions for Evergreen, including recent accolades in the Fiske Guide, Sierra Magazine, and Princeton Review. Additionally, Evergreen was recently ranked among the top graduate schools for public affairs by US News & World Report.

The U.S. News college rankings are a popular research tool for students and parents considering higher education opportunities. The rankings are available in print in the 2012 Edition of US News and World Report Best Colleges and at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/evergreen-state-college-8155

When: Thursday, October 6, at noon
Where: Large Meeting Room of The Olympian, 111 Bethel St. NE, Olympia

Dr. Steve Niva of the Evergreen State College, who analyzed the Arab Spring for a fascinated Olympia World Affairs Council audience last March, returns to the podium to provide a follow-up and update on events in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Turkey and other countries experiencing an Arab democratic awakening.

Dr. Niva recently led a group of students on a tour of the Middle East. He will bring to his presentation not only the insights he gained during this visit, but also the results of his own research on and contacts in the area. Dr. Niva is Professor of International Politics and Middle East Studies, specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, asymmetrical warfare and counter-insurgency. Widely published in academic and professional journals, he is currently writing a book on the history and strategy of Palestinian suicide bombs and is conducting research on the changing nature of warfare in the MIddle East today. Dr. Niva is a Seattle native, a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his PhD from Columbia University. He has taught at American University and Georgetown and has been at the Evergreen State College since 1999.

Dr. Niva is an editorial associate of The Middle East Research and Information Project, and has had articles published in the Egyptian English language edition of Al-Ahram Weekly, Middle East Policy, The Jordan Times and Peace Review, Middle East International as well as in the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Day of Caring, the largest annual one-day volunteer event in Thurston County, is this Friday, September 23. Over 500 volunteers from throughout Thurston County, including 150 new students from The Evergreen State College, will be working on 35 projects throughout the county.

Projects include organizing donated books, assembling bags of food, harvesting fall vegetables, helping get farms ready for the winter season, painting homes that houses disabled individuals, lending a hand with a carnival and field day for school kids, and many other activities.

Day of Caring helps local nonprofits by providing an opportunity to get tasks accomplished that would otherwise take time away from their primary purpose of serving their clients. For volunteers, the event is a way to meet new people, work as a team and gain new experiences, while helping improve their community. Day of Caring is also the official kick-off of United Way’s annual fundraising campaign. This year's goal is to raise $1.4 million for local health and human service programs.

“For 19 years, United Way and our partners have been organizing the Day of Caring to support good work right here in Thurston County,” shared Paul Knox, United Way’s Executive Director. “At the end of the day, imagine the impact from those hundreds of volunteers on our community – it’s incredible!”

Day of Caring is generously sponsored by Bron’s Automotive, Heritage Bank, O Bee Credit Union, Olympia Federal Savings, Providence St. Peter Hospital, Target, and TwinStar Credit Union.

The following organizations are participating in Day of Caring this year:

Volunteer Teams

Assoc. of WA School Principals
City of Olympia Public Works Dept.
Employment Security Dept. ESD/ECDD
Engineered Software, Inc.
Executive Assistants Group
Express Employment Professionals
Fred Meyer
Group Health Cooperative
Heritage Bank
Intel Corporation
Intercity Transit
Lacey Sunrise Lions
Lewis-Mason-Thurston Area Agency on Aging
Olympia Federal Savings
Providence St. Peter Hospital
Puget Sound Energy
St. Martin 's University Campus Ministry
State Farm Insurance
Sterling Savings Bank
The Evergreen State College
Thurston County
Thurston County Bar Association
Townsend Security
Tumwater Rotary
TwinStar Credit Union
WA State Dept. of Commerce
WA State Employment Security Dept. / WSID
Youth in Service Americorps
Zonta of South Puget Sound

Project Sites

Books to Prisoners
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County, Lacey Branch
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County, Tumwater Branch
CIELO
Circle Hawk Farm Family Support Center of South Sound
Fertile Ground
Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB)
Hands On Children's Museum
Heartstrides Therapeutic Riding & Horsemanship Program
Homeless Backpacks
Homes First!
Kokua
Left Foot Organics
Madison Elementary
Monarch Sculpture Park
Morningside / Oly School Dist
POWER
Olympia Kiwanis
ROOF Community Services
Safeplace
Senior Services for South Sound
South Sound Reading Foundation
South Sound YMCA
Stonewall Youth
The Crisis Clinic of Thurston & Mason Counties
Thurston County Food Bank
Thurston County Food Bank - Backpack Program
Thurston County Food Bank Gleaners United Communities AIDS Network (UCAN)
United Way of Thurston County
Woodland Trail Greenway Association
YWCA of Olympia

The 2012 Military Friendly Schools list honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members and veterans as students.

In its effort to help student veterans find the right school, G.I. Jobs incorporated a survey of student veterans for the first time. This feedback provides prospective military students with insight into the student veteran experience at a particular institution based on peer reviews from current students. Student veteran survey feedback can be viewed at www.militaryfriendlyschools.com/2012 list.

Innovations in Policy and Practice at Evergreen

Evergreen is becoming widely recognized as a leader in working to provide a supportive and welcoming environment for student veterans.

• Evergreen has an established Veterans Support Working Group made up of students, staff and faculty -- and a Student Veteran Organization.
• The Evergreen State College organized the first ever regional higher education summit on veterans’ needs, experiences and retention. War and the Soul: Creating Healing Academic Communities for Our Nation’s Veterans
• Annual events include a Fall Quarter Veterans Reception in which a Veterans Medallion is presented to all identified incoming veterans in recognition of their service, a tradition of celebration of Veterans Day for the past 17 years, and Memorial Day recognition efforts including distribution of thousands of Memorial Day poppies.
• Evergreen also aims to attract veterans and their dependents through recruitment efforts, outreach and tuition waivers year round for qualifying veterans and veterans’ dependents.

The 1,518 colleges, universities and trade schools on this year’s list prioritize the recruitment of students with military experience. These schools are making the grade by offering scholarships and discounts, veterans’ clubs, full-time staff, military credit and other services to those who served. The 2012 list of Military Friendly Schools ® was compiled through a survey of more than 8,000 schools nationwide. Methodology, criteria and weighting for the list were developed with the assistance of an Academic Advisory Board (AAB) consisting of educators from schools across the country. A full list of board members can be found at http://militaryfriendlyschools.com/Article/advisory-board/.

A detailed list of Military Friendly Schools ® is highlighted in the annual Guide to Military Friendly Schools and on a poster, both of which will be distributed to hundreds of thousands of active and former military personnel in early October. The website, found at www.militaryfriendlyschools.com, features the list, interactive tools and search functionality to assist military veterans with their school decisions.

About G.I. Jobs

G.I. Jobs is published by Victory Media, a veteran-owned business which also publishes The Guide to Military Friendly Schools, Military Spouse and Vetrepreneur magazines and annually rates the nation’s “Military Friendly Employers,” “Military Spouse Friendly Employers” and “Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses.

The festival is now a fond part of Evergreen’s history, but KAOS marches on – with their Great Semi-Annual CD and Vinyl Sale, Saturday September 24th on the first floor of the College Activities Building at the Evergreen Olympia Campus. From Noon to 7pm, you can build your library, feed your turntable and SAVE on THOUSANDS of CDs and vinyl albums from the KAOS vaults.

About KAOS

Licensed to the Evergreen State College, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-six year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County’s largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

Free, thought-provoking event to take place at The Evergreen State College, Tacoma Campus, September 19 at 7 p.m.

Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino will speak on Shakespearean drama and the role it plays in critical crises in contemporary life, law and current affairs.

Basing his remarks in research completed in authoring his new book, A Thousand Times More Fair, Yoshino will apply insights from Shakespearean drama to current dilemmas facing us as we seek a fair and just society.

The event is free and open to the public and will take place at The Evergreen State College, Tacoma campus on September 19 at 7 pm. The campus is located at 1210 6th Avenue in Tacoma.

Driving Directions for Evergreen, Tacoma

About Kenji Yoshino

A renowned legal scholar, Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed–from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine, to the American Lawyer–for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and discrimination law.

Yoshino’s provocative new book, A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice addresses fundamental questions we ask about our world today: Why is the rule of law better than revenge? How much mercy should we show a wrongdoer? What does it mean to "prove" guilt or innocence? As Yoshino argues, a searching examination of Shakespeare's plays–and the many advocates, judges, criminals, and vigilantes who populate them–can elucidate some of the most troubling issues in contemporary life.

With a great ear for Shakespeare and an eye trained steadily on current affairs, Yoshino considers how competing models of judging presented in Measure for Measure resurfaced around the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; how the revenge cycle of Titus Andronicus illuminates the "war on terror" and our military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq; how the white handkerchief in Othello and the black glove in the O. J. Simpson trial reflect forms of proof that overwhelm all other evidence; and how the spectacle of an omnipotent ruler voluntarily surrendering power in The Tempest, as Cincinnatus did before him and George Washington did after him, informs regime change in our own time.

About the Daniel J. Evans Chair in Liberal Arts

Support for this event is provided by endowment funds of The Daniel J. Evans Chair in Liberal Arts. Funded by a state grant and matching donations from many generous people, The Daniel J. Evans Chair in Liberal Arts was established in 1991 to enrich academic programs and intensively support entry level classes (Core programs). This endowment honors and pays tribute to Daniel Evans – Washington State legislator, U.S. Senator, Governor of Washington State, past president of The Evergreen State College, and a nationally respected statesman. The Chair allows distinguished scholars to work with Evergreen’s newest students, thereby exposing them to the best possible minds at an early stage in their academic careers.

Evergreen praised for green efforts by national magazine, ranks 9 on list

The Evergreen State College placed ninth on Sierra magazine’s fifth annual ranking of the nation’s top “Coolest Schools.” A salute to the efforts of colleges around the country helping to solve climate issues and operate sustainably, the cover feature spotlights the schools that are making a true impact for the planet, from UC Irvine’s energy-efficiency standards to Stanford’s commitment to maintaining undeveloped open space to Green Mountain College sourcing nearly half its energy from, yes, cow manure. The complete list is available online at www.sierramagazine.com /coolschools.

Sustainability initiatives at Evergreen include efforts to reduce waste, conserve energy, achieve climate neutrality, as well as the college’s work to provide learning resources through its salmon-safe certified organic farm, its distinct commitment to sustainability in the classroom, and sustainable living and food choice options in which students consciously choose a better way to relate to their natural world.

“When students take what they’ve learned in the classroom and proceed to get their hands dirty in the real world, they realize the potential they have to make a difference,” said Bob Sipchen, Sierra magazine editor-in-chief. “We’re thrilled to highlight these forward-thinking schools for emphasizing environmental responsibility, and for teaching, inspiring, and empowering students to affect real change.”

This year’s top schools prove that schools of all sizes – the University of Washington has 40,000 students, while College of the Atlantic has 321 – are taking dramatic action to help preserve the planet and its resources.

Sierra magazine’s top 20 schools of 2011 are:

1. University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
2. Green Mountain College (Poultney, VT)
3. University of California San Diego (San Diego, CA)
4. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC)
5. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
6. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
7. University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
8. University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
9. The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
10. Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
11. University of New Hampshire (Durham, NJ)
12. Appalachian State University (Boone, NC)
13. Colby College (Waterville, ME)
14. Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)
15. University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
16. University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
17. Clark University (Worcester, MA)
18. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
19. Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
20. University of Maryland (College Park, MD)

Sierra also featured the stories of educators and students who are committed to immersive learning, and who take their lessons outside the confines of the classroom and into the real world, to places like Bali in Indonesia, New York’s Adirondack Mountains, and Utah’s Navajo Nation.

According to a 2010 Princeton Review report, 64% of prospective college students take a university's commitment to environmental issues into consideration when deciding where to apply and enroll. Students care deeply about green issues and are attracted to institutions that are taking the initiative to solve environmental problems. The complete rankings, with comprehensive descriptions of each school’s environmental efforts, are available online at www.sierramagazine.com/coolschools.

About Sierra magazine

Sierra is the official publication of the Sierra Club, America's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 1.4 million members and supporters nationwide. The Sierra Club works to safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and litigation. For more information, go to www.sierramagazine.com.

For 2012, Fiske Guide to Colleges has designated 49 institutions – 24 public and 25 private – as Best Buys. All of the Best Buy schools fall into the inexpensive or moderate price category, and the designation is recognition of both value and academics at the college.

To be qualified as a Best Buy institution, Fiske Guide to Colleges takes into account qualities such as:

• High academic ratings
• Inexpensive or moderate price
• Quality of student life on campus

For more information, please visit: http://www.sourcebookscollege.com/spotlight/fiske-best-buy-colleges.html.

About the Author: Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as education editor of the New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the bestselling annual, the Fiske Guide to Colleges, to help them.

The Evergreen State College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2012 edition of its annual college guide, "The Best 376 Colleges."

Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and three colleges outside the U.S.A. are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories.

Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Senior VP / Publisher and author of "The Best 376 Colleges," "We commend The Evergreen State College for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book. Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 28-member National College Counselor Advisory Board. We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character."

In its profile on The Evergreen State College The Princeton Review praises the school for its interdisciplinary approach, distinctive culture, and green credentials. The Princeton Review has posted the school profiles and ranking lists in "The Best 376 Colleges" at PrincetonReview.com.

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for 30 years through college and graduate school test preparation and private tutoring. The Princeton Review partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout the United States to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning services.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Evergreen Tacoma Annual Fund supporting student scholarships, math and writing tutors, and critical campus needs.

Items for sale will include gently used toys, household items, clothing, and more.

The event is sponsored by The Evergreen State College Alumni Association.

One-day Tacoma event features performances by local Native American dancers, musicians and storytellers, and wares by some of the Pacific Northwest’s most talented artisans

In the Spirit: Northwest Native Arts Market and Festival, the largest Native American arts event in the Northwest, will be returning to the Washington State History Museum on Aug. 6 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. As the exciting focal point of the In the Spirit exhibit, the free outdoor event offers visitors an unparalleled opportunity to participate in Native American traditions, purchase fine art and support Pacific Northwest Native American artists.

“With the In the Spirit exhibit closing on Aug. 28, the market and festival offers one last chance for the public to view Native American art, participate in native song and dance as well as a fantastic opportunity for the museum to announce the winner of the ‘People’s Choice’ award,” said Dave Nicandri, Director of the Washington State Historical Society that runs the museum. “Over the last several months visitors to the museum have been asked to vote on their favorite piece of art and we’ll announce the artist that came out on top during the festival.”

The fun, educational and interactive In the Spirit event features performances by local Native American dancers, musicians and storytellers in the museum’s 300-seat outdoor amphitheater. In the plaza, adjacent to the amphitheater, some of the Pacific Northwest’s most talented artisans, including weavers, printmakers, carvers and bead artists, will be selling their colorful wares, including native clothing and jewelry, and offering live art demonstrations.

Stand out artists at the market include Shaun Peterson, creator of the “Welcome Figure Project” in downtown Tacoma, Peter Boome winner of all three awards in the painting category at the Eitelijorg Indian Market, along with Patti Puhn, Malynn Foster, Tanya Markishtum, Kelli Palmer and Clarissa Rizal, all respected weavers representing various Native traditions. For a full list of artists visit the Washington State History Museum’s website.

In the Spirit Performance Schedule:

10 a.m. In the Spirit Market and Festival officially opens to the public. Welcome message from the Washington State History Museum staff and blessing from Leonard Forsman, the Chairman of the Suquamish Tribe

10:30 a.m. Native songs and dances performed by Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers. The group is Alaska Native Americans, Haida, Muckleshoot and Quileute, living in the Puget Sound

12 p.m. Aleut dance group Sngagim Axasniikangin (Dream Dancers)

1:30 p.m. Lummi and S’Klallam Native American, Chenoa Egawa, performs traditional songs

3 p.m. Northern Star song and dance performance. Alaskan Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribes wearing traditional regalia while performing

4:30 p.m. The House of Welcome Dancers

6 p.m. Flutist Rona Yellow Robe, Chippewa Cree tribe of Rocky Boy, performs

For more information on In the Spirit visit Washington State History Museum and The Evergreen State College Longhouse Education & Cultural Center’s websites.

In the Spirit is funded in part through the National Endowment for the Arts and partnerships with KUOW and the Suquamish Tribe. Market and Festival hours are Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Extended exhibit hours on Saturday, Aug. 5 are 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Normal exhibit hours are Wednesday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., with extended hours and free admission every third Thursday, 2 – 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. General admission: $8 for adults; $7 for seniors, age 60 and above; $6 for students and military with valid ID; children, age 5 and below, and members are always free.

About the Washington State History Museum

The Washington State History Museum, flagship of the Washington State Historical Society, is located at 1911 Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma, just off 1-5. The Washington State History Museum presents exhibits, programs, and events that bring to life the stories of Washington's history. The Washington State Historical Society has been dedicated to collecting, preserving, and vividly presenting Washington's rich and varied history since 1891. For more information, please call 1-888-BE-THERE or visit our Web site, www.WashingtonHistory.org

About The Evergreen State College Longhouse Education & Cultural Center

The "House of Welcome" Longhouse Education and Cultural Center is a public service center at The Evergreen State College that provides a full Native curriculum and artist grant programs. Built in collaboration with Northwest tribes, it is the first building of its kind on a public campus in the United States. The Longhouse is a multi-purpose facility with the mission to promote indigenous arts and cultures through education, cultural preservation, creative expression and economic development. For more information visit www.evergreen.edu/longhouse

The Evergreen State College has been awarded a grant of $3 million in June to support retention of students, build capacity for fundraising to support student scholarships and other critical needs, and create an endowed scholarship fund for low-income students at risk of failing to complete their degrees.

The multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will:

• Establish an endowed scholarship fund that will increase support for low-income students that are at risk of dropping out of college ($1,500,000);
• Support creative approaches to curricular development and academic and career advising that will facilitate student retention and success ($250,000); and
• Provide funding to increase Evergreen’s capacity to attract new benefactors supporting scholarships and other needs on campus as the college gears up to celebrate 40 years of teaching and learning in 2011-2012 ($1,250,000.)

Evergreen has a long tradition of serving a diverse population of students, including many that are the first in their families to attend college and many in financial distress or with few economic resources.

The grant will endow a scholarship fund that will support students in perpetuity as well as provide incentives to other donors to support students in need by matching their gifts dollar for dollar.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Evergreen share a commitment to college access and success, a commitment that is ever more critical for students and society,” explained Les Purce, president of The Evergreen State College. “This investment represents a vote of confidence in Evergreen's nationally recognized model for teaching and learning and its ongoing work to support students from the widest range of backgrounds in completing their degrees today, tomorrow and long into the future. The Gates Foundation is a mindful, deliberate investor in creating positive change in the world and we are delighted to partner with the foundation in this visionary effort.”

Evening Star Hunt to Follow Free Public Lecture by Distinguished Astronomer

In a colorful slide presentation and lecture, astronomer and noetic scientist Russ Genet will trace humanity’s discovery of the cosmos beginning with pre-scientific cosmologies and culminating in the Big Bang Theory and the Runaway Universe. The lecture, beginning at 7 p.m., concludes with a summary of our current search for exoplanets and our quest to find life and alien civilizations among the stars.

The presentation is free and open to the public and takes place from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at The Evergreen State College Campus (in the Longhouse). The cost for parking is $2. Weather permitting, the lecture will be followed by an exploration of the evening sky in a star hunt.

Genet tells the story of the evolution of human consciousness, from primeval stardust to planetary stardom, and explores the emergence of the story through scientific research and wonder. He views the multi-faceted epic through unexpected lenses, and follows it through education. Finally, he explores the evolutionary epic as it shifts cultural and scientific paradigms, serves our quest for a brighter future, and enriches humanity’s imaginative and spiritual dimensions.

Evergreen students will also be making presentations on their published research into binary stars on August 3.

Genet’s presentation is part of the Cosmology and Consciousness — Summer Lecture Series (schedule of events). The series is made possible by the 2011 Noosphere Award from The Evergreen State College Foundation.

About Dr. Russ Genet

Russell M. Genet, PhD, is a Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University, Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College, and Director of the Orion Observatory. He is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred scientific papers. Genet, who pioneered the world’s first fully robotic observatory (featured in the PBS special The Perfect Stargazer), was the 51st President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.  His latest book in the field of cosmic evolution, Humanity: The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, gives an account of how we came to be, drawn from the current groundbreaking science, and suggests possible future scenarios. 

Genet recently co-chaired three conferences and co-edited three books related to his work in cosmic evolution:

1. The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques
2. The Evolutionary Epic: Science’s Story and Humanity’s Response
3. Science, Wisdom and the Future: Humanity’s Quest for a Flourishing Earth

Contacts:
Jason Wettstein (360) 867-5213, (360) 451-3167; wettstej@evergreen.edu
Rebecca Chamberlain (360) 866-2141; chambreb@evergreen.edu

July 13 - August 24, 2011

The Evergreen State College, Seminar II D1105
Stargazing afterwards, weather permitting

July 13, 6 pm

Richard Miles, Astronomer, Staff/Faculty, Zen priest
“Coming Home to the Universe: Developing and Using Tools for Navigating the Night Sky and the Inner and Outer Cosmos”

July 20,  6 pm, 7pm

Two Presentations, starting at 6 p.m.

Peter Robinson, Technician/Scientist
“In the Spirit of Galileo: Innovation and Ingenuity in Working with Telescopes and Technology” (6:00 p.m.)

and Joe Tougas, Evergreen Faculty, Philosopher
“Ways of Seeing: How Different Kinds of Representations Make Possible and Influence the Ways of Thinking that are Contained in Various Cosmologies” (7:00 p.m.)

August 3, 7 pm

Russ Genet, Astronomer, Philosopher, Noetic scientist "Discovery of the Cosmos;"  along with student presentations on their published binary star research (7:00 p.m.)

August 17, 7 pm

Dave Powell, Director, the Oregon Star Party (7:00 p.m.)
“The Cosmos Unveiled: How to Explore and Interpret the Night Sky”

August 24, 6 pm

Rebecca Chamberlain, Faculty, and Misty Kalama, Lushootseed Language Specialist, WaHeLut Tribal School
“In Search of the Star Child: Star Stories, Teachings of the Pacific Northwest, and the Alchemy and Transformation of Cosmological Consciousness” (6:00 p.m.)

For more information about these events, contact Rebecca Chamberlain via email: chambreb@evergreen.edu

This series is made possible by The Evergreen State College Foundation Noosphere Award. The Noosphere Award supports faculty-student collaborative projects unifying artistic, scientific, and spiritual elements that promote the advent of a worldwide culture of peace. The family of alumnus Adam Leveen Sher (2002) established this endowed award to assist future generations of students at Evergreen.

The project ‘Our Tribe: The People of The Water’ was awarded one of only 51 grants nationwide in support of “creative placemaking”

(Olympia, Wash.) Today, the Squaxin Island Tribe and The Evergreen State College Longhouse Education and Cultural Center announced that they will receive an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The tribe and the college will receive a grant of $100,000 in support of Native art in conjunction with the 2012 annual canoe journey on the Salish Sea (Puget Sound).

The NEA grant will help provide for documentation, installation, and exhibition for the project, Our Tribe: The People of the Water, a partnership of the Longhouse and the Squaxin Island Museum.

Project participant artists will create works to further establish a sense of Squaxin Island tribal identity, people and place. Established artists will teach their art forms to an intergenerational group of emerging artists and will create art to establish identity of people and place during the Tribal Journey canoe event.

At the project conclusion in summer 2012, the Squaxin Tribe will maintain the art pieces in the community and share them with neighboring townships for exhibition. The Museum and Longhouse will continue to host residencies with private and tribal funding.

Our Town is the NEA’s latest investment in “creative placemaking,” through which partners from both public and private sectors come together to strategically shape the social, physical, and economic character of a neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities.

The NEA grant will support half of the total project cost of $200,000. Longhouse and Squaxin Island Museum staff support and facility use provide the other half.

Expected project outcomes include increasing the number of practicing Squaxin artists, expanding indigenous artist networks, and increasing art appreciation, cultural tourism and economic development.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman said, “Communities across our country are using smart design and leveraging the arts to enhance quality of life and promote their distinctive identities. In this time of great economic upheaval, Our Town provides communities an opportunity to reignite their economies.”

“This is a significant year for Evergreen and the Longhouse,” said Tina Kuckkahn, director of the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at Evergreen. “The Longhouse is celebrating its 15th year and with the upcoming 2011-12 academic year, the college is marking its 40th anniversary, celebrating four decades of innovative teaching and learning.”

“The Our Town Grant from the NEA is another extraordinary example of the important national role and creative partnerships The Evergreen State College and its Longhouse have developed over the years,” said Kuckkahn. “We are pleased that this project gives the Longhouse an opportunity to build on and strengthen the long-term partnership that Evergreen has enjoyed with the Squaxin Island Tribe over the years. We always remember how strongly members of the Squaxin Island Tribe supported the dream of a Longhouse on the campus at Evergreen.”

“The Squaxin Island Tribe will host the 2012 Canoe Journeys, one of the largest tribal gatherings in the Pacific Northwest. Over a hundred cedar canoes will be coming into the marine waters within a mile of the state capitol, the celebration of traditional native songs will be heard and add a unique cultural value to the city of Olympia,” said Charlene Krise, executive director of Squaxin Tribe Museum Library Research Center.

“In tribal artwork are identifiable connections to the natural resources of the land, water and to the animal nations. It is wonderful NEA recognizes the cultural value of collaborative partnerships between Squaxin Island Tribe, City of Olympia and The Evergreen State College in our sincere attempt to enhance the quality of life by showcasing tribal art,” Krise added.

The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center opened on the Olympia campus of The Evergreen State College in 1995. The Center’s primary public service work is to promote indigenous arts and culture. In the beginning, the center focused on six local Puget Sound tribes and their artists; today staff work with indigenous artists throughout the Pacific Northwest region, nationally, and with other Pacific Rim indigenous peoples to promote indigenous arts and cultures through a wide variety of programs.

The Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center (MLRC) tells the story of the People of the Water through a series of exhibits and displays depicting the relationship between Squaxin Island Tribal members and the seven inlets of South Puget Sound. Visitors experience the rich culture of the Squaxin Island Tribe by participating in cultural activities and special events. The hopes and dreams of Squaxin elders and those who have walked before us have come true through this magnificent facility. Squaxin Island culture, past and present, is preserved for people of all generations. With a small, yet highly professional staff, the MLRC presents exhibits, lectures, films, tours, traditional skills workshops and educational outreach programs for students in local schools.

The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The NEA extends its work through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector

In partnership with the Port of Olympia one concert will take place Friday, August 5th at the Port Plaza (behind Anthony’s HomePort Restaurant) with extended performance time, 7:00-8:30 pm.  Music in the Park is brought to you by the Olympia Downtown Association but would not be possible without the sponsorships from local businesses, government and citizens.

For more information, schedule and driving directions, please visit www.MusicInTheParkOlympia.com.

College Partnership to Enhance Education for Tribal Communities on the North Olympic Peninsula

Building on Evergreen's twenty-year history of providing higher education opportunity and access through its Reservation Based Community Determined Program in Western Washington, Peninsula College and Evergreen recently announced a new partnership to serve prospective student populations from all five Tribes on the North Olympic Peninsula including the Hoh, Quileute, Makah, Jamestown S'Klallam, and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribes.

In an effort to serve smaller and often more isolated Native communities, the Higher Education Coordinating Board of Washington and Evergreen's Board of Trustees recently approved aggregating services for students pursuing college degrees from several tribes at a central location. Peninsula has agreed to host The Evergreen State College Reservation Based Community Determined Program at the Longhouse "House of Learning" on the Peninsula College campus.

The program provides the same curriculum and structure as the other five reservation based sites that are currently active in Quinault; Muckleshoot; Nisqually; Tulalip; and Port Gamble S'Klallam.

The move derived from discussions with Peninsula College's Tribal Education Partner representatives and individual council representatives. The goal of the partnership is to create a Bachelor's degree cohort of 12 upper division (juniors and seniors) students to begin in the Fall of 2011.

Peninsula College will begin the Reservation Based Associate of Arts (AA) Degree Bridge Program in Fall of 2012, which will serve first-and second-year Peninsula College students through a combination of on-line and face-to-face classes. The AA degree will be tailored for transfer of credits into the upper division of the Reservation Based Community Determined Program or direct transfer to other institutions around Washington.

Peninsula College and The Evergreen State College are in the process of visiting Tribal Council representatives and tribal education department representatives on the North Olympic Peninsula to provide more information about these programs.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Following a national search, The Evergreen State College has hired Matt Newman as Director of Recreation and Athletics. He will take over for Wendy Endress, who has served as Interim Director of Recreation and Athletics since November 2010 and will be returning to her permanent position as Executive Associate to the Vice President of Student Affairs.

"For all of the right reasons, Evergreen offers a broad-based Recreation and Athletics program in an effort to provide positive and healthy opportunities for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and the community," said Newman. "This fits with my philosophy about the role of athletics in higher education, and I couldn't be more honored and excited to become part of the Evergreen team."

Newman comes to Evergreen following three years as commissioner of the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference, where he planned and oversaw operations for the 18-sport and 3,600-student-athlete league.

"I am excited to have Matt join us," said Vice President of Student Affairs Art Costantino. "He has experience in all aspects of the job, a reputation as a strong administrator and a real interest in working at Evergreen.

Prior to the Northwest Conference, Newman was Associate Dean of Students and Director of Athletics and Recreation at Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, N.Y. Newman also has athletic administrative experience at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Savannah College of Art and Design and has coached at both the high school and collegiate levels, including six years as a collegiate baseball head coach in both the NAIA and NCAA.

Newman has worked extensively with both the NAIA and NCAA and their respective committees, including Committee on Women's Athletics, Student Records Review Committee and Regional Advisory Committees for both baseball and golf.

A 1990 graduate of University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in speech and hearing science, Newman also holds a Master of Science from Idaho State University and is in the final stages of his Doctor of Education coursework at University of Virginia.

Newman, and his partner Monica Nixon, who is currently the Director of Multicultural Affairs at Seattle University, reside in Seattle.

The following documents indicate the College's responses and statements regarding these resolutions. In short, the college has not and does not intend to divest from Israel nor boycott Caterpillar.

• "Board of Trustees' Co-Chairs Respond to Open Letter on Divestment," submission to Cooper Point Journal, May 31, 2011
• "Message from the Board of Trustees" to GSU, email from January 18, 2011
• President, Les Purce "GSU resolutions on divestment from Israel and boycott of Caterpillar" email from November 3, 2010

The event celebrating Tacoma’s Evergreen graduates will take place on June 11 at 1 PM at the Tacoma campus of The Evergreen State College, 1210 6th Avenue, Tacoma.  The event is free and open to the public.

“The individual is slowly taking control of his or her destiny in many spheres,” says Phillips.  “This process is systematic and irreversible, but, as this happens, we must ensure that the inequalities in our society are reduced not increased.”

Phillips is chairman of the independent non-profit Russell 20-20 Association.

He retired from Russell Investment Group after serving as Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2003.  Under Phillips leadership, Russell Investment Group was awarded Washington CEO magazine’s “Best Companies to Work for in Washington State, and was among Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America.”

Phillips graduated with honors in law from University College, London. He is a board member of the Tacoma Youth Chorus, the Harold LeMay museum, and on the advisory board of the University of Washington, Tacoma.

The "Research Ambassador Program" is trying to answer these questions by approaching these issues from a perspective of "cross-cultural exchange." In the case of the toddlers, a marine biologist visited the Evergreen Campus Children's Center and talked about mud. A forest ecologist gave a lecture about bark beetles and forest dynamics to a group of female inmates at a minimum security prison, ending with a rendition of "I will survive" to signify the resilience of both forests and people.

These biologists were recruited, trained, and rewarded to be "Research Ambassadors", prepared to interact with and bring science directly to both traditional and underserved segments of the public.

In 2010, Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, faculty member at The Evergreen State College, received funding from the National Science Foundation to initiate the Research Ambassador Program, a project to explore ways for scientists to link with members of their local communities by offering presentations, workshops, and other events at senior centers, churches, daycare centers, and other places we visit on a daily basis.

Since January, 2011, the Research Ambassador Program has hosted the first seven of its eight scheduled visiting Fellows, which include some scientists at the beginning and others at later stages of their careers. They wish to learn creative ways to conduct outreach in their local communities during their three-day visits to Olympia. Here, they receive one-on-one training in communications strategies from both Dr. Nadkarni, and Amy Stasch, a former National Park ranger. They then apply those strategies in outreach talks later in their visit. Fellows have spoken at area prisons (including Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Washington Corrections Center for Women, and Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women), to the four year old "Geoducks" of the Evergreen Children's Center , at the Olympia Film Society, and at a workshop at United Churches. Fellows have also met individually with patrons and employees of the local stores Alpine Experience, Olympic Outfitters, and Wind Up Here toys, exploring how scientists could more actively interact with skiers, snowboarders, and parents. .

The program has received an enthusiastic response from all involved. Participating scientists have returned to their home communities with action plans to contact their local senior centers, and the teachers at the daycare centers their children attend. Partners have expressed interest in hearing more about current scientific developments and appreciate the opportunity to interact directly with a scientist to ask questions and hear the details of working in a lab.

In May, the program will be hosting one more visiting Fellow, Dr. Doug Levey, a Professor at the University of Florida who studies plant compounds. He will talk to the childcare center, and discuss his scientific work with prisoners. The public is invited to a public talk at Buck's Fifth Avenue (209 5th Ave.) in Olympia on Tuesday May 17 at 11 a.m. Amidst the shelves of spices, Dr. Doug Levey will explain why chilis are hot, drawing on his ecological and biochemical work to understand the evolutionary ecology behind plant production of spicy compounds that affect animals that may eat them..

Program Director Nalini Nadkarni is a leading forest canopy ecologist and has been a member of The Evergreen State College faculty for more than 18 years. She has a passion for introducing new audiences to the wonder of science, and won the Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2010 for her efforts.

Participating Scientists Include:

Dr. Denise Bruesewitz
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Texas at Austin
Research includes: freshwater ecology, biogeochemistry

Dr. Matthew Hurteau
Assistant Research Professor
Northern Arizona University
Research includes: climate change mitigation

Dr. Doug Levey
Professor
University of Florida
Research includes: landscape ecology and conservation biology

Ms. Aurora MacRae-Crerar
Doctoral Student
University of Pennsylvania
Research includes: soil microbial communities, biogeochemistry

Ms. Molly Mehling
Doctoral Candidate
Miami University
Research includes: community ecology, ecotoxicology

Ms. Katie Renwick
Doctoral Student
Colorado State University
Research includes: temperate forests, disturbance ecology

Dr. Rebecca Trueman
Assistant Professor
Concordia University Chicago
Research includes: biogeochemistry, wetland ecology

Dr. Alan Wilson
Assistant Professor
Auburn University
Research includes: community ecology and genetics, limnology

For More Information:

Program Director Nalini Nadkarni
(360) 867-6621

Program Manager Amy Stasch
(360) 867-6767

www.researchambassador.com

For more information, please visit: http://gateways.evergreen.edu/events.html

Anticipates Memorial Day; Remembers America's Casualties of War

On Thursday, May 26, The Evergreen State College will acknowledge the American soldiers, airmen and women, Marines and sailors who have died in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn by reading their names on the college's Red Square. The event, entitled The Readers Project: Honoring the Fallen will commence at 7:30 AM. It will continue until the name of every serviceman and woman who has been officially identified as a casualty (nearly 6,026 to date) has been read aloud. Readers will include Evergreen students, staff, and faculty, veterans, representatives of many faiths, the military and the community.

The memorial will take place without pomp or speeches in order to simply invite the community to remember and honor those who have sacrificed their lives in service to our country, and to provide an occasion to contemplate the profound losses families and communities are experiencing throughout the nation.

This event is being organized by The Veterans of Evergreen Transition and Success Team (VETS) of The Evergreen State College. The VETS Team is comprised of Evergreen staff, faculty and students.

Veteran Information at Evergreen

• Downloadable Book Profiles Princeton Review and US Green Business Council's (USGBC) Selections of Environmentally Responsible Colleges
• Evergreen Previously One of 18 North American Colleges Selected for Princeton's 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll

The Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011 Edition profiles 308 institutions of higher education in the United States and three in Canada that demonstrate notable commitments to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation. The 220-page book-a free, annually updated guide to green colleges-can be downloaded at www.princetonreview.com/green-guide.aspx and www.centerforgreenschools.org/greenguide

Last summer, The Princeton Review named 18 colleges to its "2011 Green Rating Honor Roll" - a recognition of colleges that received the highest possible score (99) in its Green Rating tallies. Published in "The Best 373 Colleges" guidebook, the Green Rating Honor Roll includes:

(in alphabetical order)

• Arizona State University (Tempe)
• College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia WA)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
• Northeastern University (Boston MA)
• Northland College (Ashland WI)
• State University of New York - Binghamton University
• Unity College (Unity ME)
• University of California - Berkeley
• University of California - Santa Barbara
• University of California - Santa Cruz
• University of Georgia (Athens)
• University of Maine (Orono)
• University of Maryland - College Park
• Warren Wilson College (Asheville NC)
• West Virginia University (Morgantown)
• Yale University (New Haven CT)

The Princeton Review, known for its education and test-preparation services, first created the guide for college-bound students in 2010 in collaboration with USGBC, which is best-known for developing the LEED green building certification program. This past fall, USGBC launched its Center for Green Schools (www.centerforgreenschools.org) to increase its efforts to drive change in how campuses and schools are designed, constructed and operated so that all educational facilities can enhance student learning experiences.

"College-bound students are increasingly interested in sustainability issues," said Robert Franek, Senior VP, Publishing, The Princeton Review. "Among 8,200 college applicants who participated in our spring 2011 'College Hopes & Worries Survey,' nearly 7 out of 10 (69%) told us that having information about a school's commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply to or attend the school," he added. "Together with USGBC, we are pleased to make this free resource available to all students seeking to attend colleges that practice, teach and support environmentally-responsible choices. To that end, we highly recommend the terrific schools in this book."

"A green campus can transform the college experience for students through enhanced sustainability education and by creating healthy living and learning environments all while saving energy, water and money as part of an institution's bottom line," said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding Chair, USGBC. "We launched the Center for Green Schools at USGBC with a vision of green schools for all within this generation. Partnering with The Princeton Review to provide this invaluable resource to college-bound students was a no-brainer for helping to create transformational change on these campuses."

How Schools Were Chosen for the Guide to 311 Green Colleges

The Princeton Review chose the 311 schools for its Guide to 311 Green Colleges based on a survey it conducted in 2010 of hundreds of colleges across the U.S. and in Canada to tally its annual "Green Rating" scores (scaled from 60 to 99) of colleges for its school profiles in its college guidebooks and website. The survey asks administrators more than 50 questions about their institution's sustainability-related policies, practices and programs. The Company tallied Green Ratings for 703 institutions in summer 2010. The 311 schools in this guide received scores of 80 or above in that assessment. (Note: The Princeton Review does not rank the schools in this guide hierarchically (1 to 311) according to their Green Rating scores, nor does it include those scores in this book's school profiles.) Information about The Princeton Review's Green Rating methodology and its "Green Honor Roll" list saluting schools that received Green Ratings of 99 is at http://www.princetonreview.com/green.aspx

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for more than 28 years through college and graduate school test preparation and private tutoring. With more than 165 print and digital publications and a free website, www.PrincetonReview.com , the company provides students and their parents with the resources to research, apply to, prepare for and learn how to pay for higher education. The Princeton Review partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout the United States to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning services, helping more students pursue postsecondary education. The company also owns and operates Penn Foster Education Group, a global leader in online education. Penn Foster provides career-focused degree and vocational programs in the fields of allied health, business, technology, education and select trades through the Penn Foster High School and Penn Foster Career School (www.pennfoster.edu ). The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University and is not a magazine.

About the U.S. Green Building Council

The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council is committed to a prosperous and sustainable future for our nation through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings. With a community comprised of 79 local affiliates, 16,000 member companies and organizations, and more than 155,000 LEED Professional Credential holders, USGBC is the driving force of an industry that is projected to contribute $554 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product from 2009-2013. USGBC leads an unlikely diverse constituency of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofit organizations, elected officials and concerned citizens, and teachers and students.

About the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council

The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is how USGBC is making sure every student has the opportunity to attend a green school within this generation. From the kindergartner entering the classroom to the Ph.D. student performing research in a lab, the Center provides the resources and support to elevate dialogue, accelerate policy and institute innovation toward green schools and campuses. Thanks in part to generous support from founding sponsor United Technologies Corporation (www.utc.com ), the Center works directly with staff, teachers, faculty, students, administrators, elected officials and communities to drive the transformation of all schools into sustainable places to live and learn, work and play. For more information, please visit www.centerforgreenschools.org

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (April 25, 2011) - Master of Environmental Studies students from The Evergreen State College in Olympia will discuss past, present, and future renewable energy technologies and how they affect the air, land, and sea in our region. Eco-activists Ed Begley, Jr. and Bryan Welch will moderate the discussion.

Ed Begley, Jr., actor, activist and author, has served on the Environmental Media Association and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. His motto Live Simply So That Others Can Simply Live details the changes he has made to "green" his life and shows how others can do the same by finding environmentally friendly resources and communities.

Bryan Welch is a Kansas farmer, author and the publisher of Ogden Publications , the largest media company serving the sustainability community. Welch will draw on ideas and themes from his book Beautiful and Abundant , which focuses on sustainability and its connection with the future of humanity. "Once the human imagination visualizes a brilliant future, the human intellect can achieve what previously seemed impossible," says Welch.

The Fair will be held at the Puyallup Fairgrounds Saturday, June 4 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, June 5 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are available by phone at 1-800-234-3368, online at http://www.motherearthnews.com/fair/tickets.aspx, and on site. Weekend passes cost $30 at the gate, $25 pre-order. Single-day passes cost $20 at the gate, $15 pre-order. For more information about the fair, please visit http://www.motherearthnewsfair.com.

About Mother Earth News Fairs

In 2010, Mother Earth News launched its first fair in Seven Springs, Pa. Mother Earth News Fairs are family-oriented sustainable-lifestyle events that feature dozens of practical, hands-on demonstrations and workshops from the leading authorities on real food, renewable energy, small-scale agriculture, gardening, green building, green transportation and natural health. Additional activities include a seed swap, children's activities, and livestock and craft demonstrations. The Fair is sponsored by Bon Ami, Organic Valley, Mitsubishi, Ball Jar, Backwoods Home and Pangreen.

About Evergreen's Master of Environmental Studies

Evergreen's Master of Environmental Studies Program trains tomorrow's environmental leaders through unique, interdisciplinary curriculum in which courses are team-taught in the evenings by natural and social sciences faculty. For more information, please visit http://www.evergreen.edu.

"Michael brings to Evergreen an extraordinarily rich background in teaching, scholarship, public engagement and leadership in higher education," said Purce.

Zimmerman has more than 30 years of experience in public and private institutions, most recently at Butler University and the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, including positions as dean of the colleges of arts and sciences at those institutions.

He received his A.B. in geography from the University of Chicago and his PhD in biology from Washington University in St. Louis.

"Michael brings substantial leadership skills, a passion for our public liberal arts mission, and a genuine interest in Evergreen's unique potential to serve students and society," said Purce.

"I am honored to have been selected to serve the Evergreen community in this role," said Zimmerman. "I'm approaching the Provost's position with a great sense of excitement, fully aware of the unique and rich role Evergreen has played in higher education since its founding. I consider it a privilege to be able to work with Les Purce and the wonderful administrative team he has put in place, the talented faculty and staff of the college, and the students for whom the college exists."

Zimmerman will begin work at Evergreen this summer. He succeeds Don Bantz who served as Evergreen's provost for six years before leaving to become the president of Alaska Pacific University in March 2010. Evergreen faculty member and former dean Ken Tabbutt has served as interim Provost.

Topics covered will include chemistry, computer science, biology, food science, health, physics, optics, marine science and a wide range of other disciplines. Anyone with an interest in science will enjoy the science carnival, the largest event of its kind in Washington.

To learn more, visit http://www.evergreen.edu/events/sciencecarnival

Each day of the conference will be planned around major topics of interest for our community: Energy, Forest, Community, Food and Skill Sharing. Events will include documentary films, presentations on edible ecosystems, presentations on energy issues, community action and sustainable food.

The full program for the conference is available at http://blogs.evergreen.edu/synergy/

The Synergy Conference is free and open to the public, parking is $2.

Contact

Dani Madrone: madroned@evergreen.edu

Who's In, Who's Out?: The Current Environment for Social Justice

Friday, April 22

Although many of us focus on issues of diversity daily, the campus community is asked to reflect on issues of racial diversity for two days each year when we observe the Day of Absence (April 22) and the Day of Presence (April 27).

Our focus this year has been on issues of access such as immigration rights and reform, access to higher education for people of color, ethnic studies, The Dream Act, hidden histories, historical trauma, anti-racism, community activism & allyship.

For coalition & community-building the campus celebrates the Day of Absence by meeting in two different groups: An off-campus educational retreat which all of Evergreen’s students, staff and faculty of color are invited to attend and, on campus our white allies offer a full day of programming around anti-oppression work from a different perspective.

Day of Presence programming represents the reuniting of our entire community and an opportunity to share ideas with each other as allies around the issues of multiculturalism. All events are free but some may require pre-registration.

Visit our website for updates and schedules

www.evergreen.edu/multicultural

Sponsored by First Peoples’ Advising Services & a multitude of other campus offices.

For more information, please contact us (360)867-6467 or firstpeoples@evergreen.edu

Who's In, Who's Out?: The Current Environment for Social Justice

Wednesday, April 27

Although many of us focus on issues of diversity daily, the campus community is asked to reflect on issues of racial diversity for two days each year when we observe the Day of Absence (April 22) and the Day of Presence (April 27).

Our focus this year has been on issues of access such as immigration rights and reform, access to higher education for people of color, ethnic studies, The Dream Act, hidden histories and historical trauma, anti-racism skills, community activism and allyship.

Visit our website for updates and schedules

www.evergreen.edu/multicultural

All events are free but some may require pre-registration.

Sponsored by First Peoples’ Advising Services and a multitude of other campus offices.

For more information, please contact us (360) 867-6467 or firstpeoples@evergreen.edu

Rollin taught the first course ever in the world in veterinary medical ethics, which has been a required part of the veterinary curriculum at Colorado State University since 1978, and was a pioneer in reforming animal use in surgery teaching and laboratory exercises in veterinary colleges.

Rollin has lectured extensively on animal ethics, genetic engineering, animal pain, animal research, animal agriculture, veterinary ethics and other topics in bioethics and philosophy to audiences of medical researchers, attorneys, psychologists, philosophers, veterinarians, animal advocates, ranchers, farmers, government officials, students and others in the United States., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, England, Scotland, Italy, Poland, Holland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, France, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Africa.

He is a University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences, and University Bioethicist at Colorado State University.

Rollin is a principal architect of 1985 federal legislation dealing with the welfare of experimental animals, and has testified before Congress on animal experimentation. He has consulted for various agencies of the governments of the United States., Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and South Africa on many aspects of animal research, for the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress on genetic engineering of animals, for the National Institutes of Health on animal pain, and for the World Health Organization on using antimicrobials in food animals. He has consulted for multinational corporations on a variety of animal issues.

Rollin is the author of over 500 papers and seventeen books, of which the best known is Animal Rights and Human Morality, which won an Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Association of University Libraries and is entering its third edition. Other books by Rollin include The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain, and Science, The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research, Farm Animal Welfare, The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals, Veterinary Ethics: Theory and Cases, Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered, and The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions. His latest book, a memoir entitled Putting the Horse before Descartes: My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals, was released in 2011.

In 2008 Professor Rollin served on the widely publicized PEW Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. Dr. Rollin also serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Animal Partnership, which recently created a farm animal welfare certification program adopted by Whole Foods. Rollin was named to the Distinguished Faculty Gallery by the College of Veterinary Medicine at CSU in 1992. He has twice been awarded the Brownlee Award for outstanding achievement in Animal Welfare Science by the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association. He was named University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University's highest honor, and was recognized as Eddy Professor, for excellence in teaching, both in 2001. In 2005, he and his business partners were awarded the Technology Transfer Award from the Colorado State University Research Foundation for the retinal identification company they founded, Optibrand. In 2005, he was awarded the Henry Spira Award in Animal Welfare by Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.

Praise for Professor Rollin's work:

"Rollin's voice is an important one in the struggle for animal rights. Rollin brings a philosopher's voice of reason to the often heated debate about cruelty to animals."

--- Jane Goodall, PhD
Founder the Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace

"Professor Rollin is a serious man with an important message. He asks us not only to recognize that those who use animals have moral obligations for their care and respect, but also to translate this recognition into new habits. What he asks is reasonable and timely."

--- Journal of the American Medical Association

"Dr. Rollin is a pioneer who introduced both philosophy and the principles of ethical treatment of animals to veterinary school curricula all over the country. In the process, he convinced the schools to eliminate cruel laboratory experiments that were a standard part of the veterinary school curriculum. His book is an engaging combination of both philosophical principles and his experiences. It should be required reading for both veterinary and animal science students. I highly recommend this book to everybody who is interested in the ethical treatment of animals."

---Temple Grandin, PhD
Co-author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human

"...he is an academic but also a pragmatist and he applies his understanding of animal issues and human nature to achieve some pretty great successes for the cause."

---Wayne Pacelle,
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Humane Society of the United States

Olympia, WA – Paul Stamets, innovator, author, and mushroom expert extraordinaire will speak at The Evergreen State College Longhouse during the Rachel Carson Forum on Thursday, April 14th 2011, doors open at 6:30pm. This event is presented by the Master of Environmental Studies Student Association at The Evergreen State College.

Stamets’ lecture, “Solutions from the Underground: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World” will speak to the power of mycelium, its inherent network design, and how it affords us many opportunities for helping restore the planet. Stamets believes that fungal solutions can help solve famine, disease, improve environments and reduce the threat of terrorism.

Join us for an evening lecture followed by a mushroom and environmental community fair on April 14th, 6:30pm at the Evergreen Longhouse. Lecture begins at 7:00pm. Tickets are $5 for community members and all students with a valid ID are free. Purchase your tickets online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/166034. For more information, please visit http://mesassociation.wordpress.com.

About Paul Stamets

Stamets has written six mushroom-related books, with his most recent being Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. His local business, Fungi Perfecti, LLC has filed more than twenty patents, been awarded six thus far, and specializes in medicinal and gourmet mushrooms. In 2008, Paul received the National Geographic Adventure’s Magazine’s Green-O-vator and the Argosy Foundation’s E-chievement Awards. In November of 2008, Utne Reader recognized Paul as one of the 50 Visionaries of the Year. In February of 2010, Paul received the President’s Award from the Society of Ecological Restoration. He has been awarded the “Packy Award” from the Sustainable Business Coalition and Whole Foods Market’s Green Coalition for the Life Box™. In September 2010, the Life Box received the Opportunity Green Award, the best green invention amongst 25 semi-finalists. Stamets has also given a TED Talk on how mushrooms can help save the world.

About the Rachel Carson Forum

Students in the Master of Environmental Studies program at The Evergreen State College started the Rachel Carson forum in 1990. The annual celebration of author and activist Rachel Carson’s life and achievements has included speakers on climate change and local sustainability. Carson’s work embodies what MES students are training to do – make a difference. Carson is known for her groundbreaking 1962 book exposing the dangers of pesticides, “Silent Spring.” Her contributions played an integral role leading to the ban of DDT use in the United States.

Tyler’s talk will focus on how we evaluate the environmental impacts of various materials and products and some of the fundamental principles of green chemistry and sustainability.

The event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 2 on April 7 at 5 p.m. The event is free. Parking is $2.

There will also be a dinner with the speaker at 6:45 PM at the Budd Bay Café (Olympia) To learn more about the dinner and RSVP for dinner reservations please contact Dharshi Bopegedera at bopegedd@evergreen.edu or (360) 867-6620.

Driving directions to Evergreen are available at www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

The event is co-sponsored by the Introduction to Natural Science Program at Evergreen and The Evergreen Chemistry Club. Evergreen gratefully acknowledges the Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical Society for helping to secure this speaker.

Free to the public. Evergreen's Visual Arts Programs offer free artist lectures almost every other Wednesday of the school year. Local, national and international, interdisciplinary artists speak about their work. The Artist Lecture Series is facilitated by Shaw Osha, oshas@evergreen.edu.

For more information and a schedule of events, please visit: http://blogs.evergreen.edu/oshas/schedule-spring-2011/

This year's Career and Internship Fair will feature 85 employers from private industry, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Some will be conducting on-site interviews for full-time, part-time and summer positions. Several colleges and universities also will represent their graduate programs at the event.

"I am delighted to see the community respond in such numbers this year, even if their hiring projections are for fewer employees" said Ann Adams, director of career services at Saint Martin's. "This is always a great opportunity for both our students and our employment community to meet face-to-face and learn about each other."

Adams recommends that job-seekers come prepared by wearing appropriate business attire, bringing multiple copies of resumes and brushing up on interview skills in advance. A list of employers planning to attend can be found at www.stmartin.edu/career_fair/ .

Even for those not immediately seeking employment, the fair provides a valuable opportunity to gather information, polish their professional image and learn to market themselves more effectively, Adams says.

This year's fair sponsors are the Associated Students of Saint Martin's University, Saint Martin's Alumni Association, Bon Appétit, ABC Printing and Great Wolf Lodge.

For more information, contact the Saint Martin's University Career Center at 360-486-8842 or aadams@stmartin.edu

Evergreen's graduate programs with specific focus on public affairs include the Master in Public Administration program and the Master of Environmental Studies program. The Master of Public Administration program (MPA) offers public policy, public and nonprofit administration, and tribal governance concentrations. Evergreen is the only college in the United States that provides students the option of an MPA with a concentration on Tribal Governance. The Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program integrates the study of the biological, physical and social sciences with public policy.

Evergreen's Master in Public Administration program is distinctive, with its emphasis on social change and democratic governance. Coursework covers critical elements of administration such as budgeting, strategic planning, human resources and information systems, public law, leadership and ethics, multicultural competencies, political and policy analyses and research methods.

Students in Evergreen's Master of Environmental Studies program explore the interactions among environmental problems, policy responses and environmental science with faculty with expertise in biological, physical, and social science, providing a more complete understanding of environmental issues.

Evergreen Masters' graduates are working throughout Washington State and the Pacific Northwest in responsible positions within state, local, tribal and federal governments, education, nonprofit organizations, advocacy organizations, and private industry.

The cornerstones of an Evergreen education, graduate or undergraduate, include collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching and learning, narrative evaluations instead of grades, and an emphasis on experiential learning and engaged discussions encompassing diverse views.

For more information on these graduate programs visit

Evergreen MPA: http://www.evergreen.edu/mpa

Evergreen MES: http://www.evergreen.edu/mes

The 2012 edition of the US News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools book will be available on April 5.

"Let's Keep Our Promise to the Next Generation" Provides Theme for Panel Conversation about Higher Education and the Washington State Budget

The public is invited to find out more about how legislative trends could impact Washington families and our economic future at a panel discussion on higher education and the Washington State budget. The event will take place March 14 at 6:00 p.m. at Thurston Community Television (TCTV). Thurston Community Television is located at 440 Yauger Way SW, Suite C, Olympia, WA 98502.

Between 2008 and 2010, the state cut funding to higher education by 30%. If the currently proposed budget is approved, that cut will grow to 50%. This will mean fewer courses, elimination of some degree programs, increased class sizes, reduction in the number of families eligible for state financial aid and a freeze in enrollment levels for Washington students at most colleges and universities.

Higher education in Washington State is facing a crisis, with our public colleges and universities on the brink of losing half of the state support they received just four years ago. This path of state disinvestment is undermining educational quality, compromising access for today's secondary school students, and creating serious hardships across Washington State for students and parents, particularly those of more modest means.

The event will provide opportunities for questions and observations from the audience. The Evergreen State College, Saint Martin's University, and South Puget Sound Community College are partnering with the College Promise Coalition to bring you this event. For more on the College Promise Coalition, please visit http://www.collegepromisewa.com/

The National Science Foundation recently awarded The Evergreen State College a S-STEM grant of almost $600,000 for scholarships and services to improve student retention and success in laboratory-based biology and chemistry. The project also seeks to increase the enrollment of groups typically underrepresented in the sciences. Average scholarship awards will be $6,750 annually per student.

The grant, under the direction of Dr. Paula Schofield and Dr. Andrew Brabban, will award up to 20 annual scholarships to financially-needy and academically talented undergraduates studying lab-based biology and/or chemistry, at Evergreen. These scholarships are renewable. Awardees who remain in good standing academically will be funded for up to four years of study at Evergreen.

The grant program aims to foster student success with a strong, supportive learning community, regular seminars on career and graduate school opportunities, undergraduate research, industry internships, and partnerships with research universities. Biology and chemistry faculty will work closely with student support staff--especially in career development--to increase scholarship recipients' chances for success.

The program also seeks to increase bachelor's degree completion of biology and chemistry students and motivate more graduates to pursue advanced studies in these fields.

According to Schofield this opportunity not only removes a significant financial burden from students, but also serves to bridge the gap between undergraduate study and a future career, under focused faculty mentorship.

The application deadline for this award in April 14th, 2011. For more information on applying for this award, please visit: http://www.evergreen.edu/scholarships/scholarships/nsf_bc.htm

For Immediate Release

Bellingham, WA/Olympia, WA – March 4, 2011
Washington Campus Compact and Inspireum announced today the top 15 finalists for the 2011 Students In Service Awards. Alex Becker from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington was selected from hundreds of outstanding college students nationwide whose volunteer service positively impacts society and inspires others to serve. The Students In Service Awards (SISA) program supports students, community organizations, and colleges and universities that cultivate student leadership through service.

Alex is being recognized for his exemplary work documenting homelessness. Alex worked with Real Change News, a nonprofit in Seattle, Washington, to produce a collaborative film that highlights the voices of eight homeless and low-income street newspaper vendors. These vendors sold the film, entitled "Turning Points," for a profit, distributing over 2,000 copies and earning over $12,000. "Interviewing these homeless individuals has opened my eyes to the world around me and inspired me to continue working for social justice," wrote Alex. "Most of all, it has taught me how to listen. I plan to attend law school and go into public interest law to continue to fight for (and with) those whose voices are too often marginalized in our society."

Finalists were selected by the Washington Campus Compact staff, and two were selected by over 450,000 supporters nationwide who voted for their favorite student and project. These twelve finalists will compete for $25,000 in academic scholarships and grants through a voting and selection process that will happen over the next two weeks.

"The fifteen finalists have shown amazing initiative and dedication in tackling some of the most challenging issues facing communities, from building schools in impoverished African communities to skills workshops for incarcerated teens," said Jennifer Dorr, executive director of Washington Campus Compact. "They've addressed each social challenge with determination and innovation."

Voting Still Open

Students, educators, family members, and other community members still have a chance to vote for their favorite student and service project at www.serviceawards.org through March 16th, 2011. A national selection committee of esteemed civic leaders will select the winner and runner-up, and one "fan favorite" winner will be determined purely by votes from supporters across the country. Scholarship recipients and their service projects will be recognized at the 14th Annual Continuums of Service Conference, a nationally recognized service and civic engagement conference in San Diego, CA, on April 28, 2011.

"There is no doubt that these students are changing the world. Collectively, they have contributed an incredible amount of time, effort, knowledge and leadership toward some of the most difficult challenges facing communities around the globe," said Kim Solem, Vice President at Inspireum, LLC. "They're also showing us that community service offers demonstrable benefits that go far beyond the impact on recipients: service teaches us how to become engaged, responsible citizens, and is a vital activity for the positive development of the next generation."

About Washington Campus Compact

Established in 1992 and hosted at Western Washington University, Washington Campus Compact and its membership of 41 two- and four-year colleges and universities are committed to providing meaningful experiences for students to become active, engaged leaders in their communities, furthering the civic and public purposes of higher education and strengthening communities. Washington Campus Compact is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 higher education institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education.

Press Contact: Brian Heinrich - Washington Campus Compact / 360-650-4147 / brian.heinrich@wwu.edu

About Insperium

Inspireum provides a comprehensive technology and media platform that helps organizations recognize and reward inspirational young people in America. Inspireum utilizes proprietary platform technology, hosted services and social media to create a comprehensive nomination, voting and donation platform that powers inspirational youth awards, scholarships and fundraising programs. In addition to the Students in Service Awards(tm), Inspireum in partnership with Trusted Sports, Inc. manages the High School Football Rudy Awards(tm) honoring athletes who have overcome tremendous obstacles to not only find success on the field, but also serve as an inspiration to others. This scholarship awards program looks beyond traditional athletic performance measures to reward team-oriented values and inspirational impact that help youth succeed throughout life.

Press Contact: Kim Solem - Inspireum LLC / 206-227-2604 / kim_solem@msn.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. – In the fall of 1996, Aaron Foy arrived on the campus of The Evergreen State College excited to take on all opponents while representing the green and white. Since October, Foy has been in the fight of his life as he battles myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and the Geoducks are joining him in the clash against cancer as Evergreen will host a Bone Marrow Registry Drive on February 19, 2011 in conjunction with the final regular season basketball games against Eastern Oregon.

Teaming up with the Puget Sound Blood Center to conduct the drive, Evergreen hopes to not only raise awareness regarding the process of donating bone marrow but help add to the registry as well, particularly for minority patients, who have an even tougher time finding matching donors.

The drive is scheduled to run from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at in the College Recreation Center (CRC) on The Evergreen State College campus. Staff from PSBC will assist fans in completing the necessary forms to join the registry as well as have the donor complete a cheek swab so that DNA can be entered into the database. Volunteers must be between the ages of 18 to 60 and meet certain health requirements but even if someone cannot register to be a donor, PSBC will be on hand to share other ways that fans can donate to the important cause.

For Foy, the fight began in October 2010 and since then, he has been working with doctors at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to tackle MDS. Having undergone rigorous chemotherapy since being diagnosed and hospital stays due to a decreased immune system, Foy knows that the fight against this disease is bigger than him.

"Everyone gets involved in these situations because they have a loved one going through it," said Foy. "But at the same time, everyone who is fighting this disease needs help."

Foy was the first recruit in Evergreen men's basketball history, playing three years for the Geoducks, including the first game in program history when Evergreen earned a win over Pacific Lutheran in what Foy described as a rocking CRC Gymnasium.

"It's something to smile about," said Foy when asked about being on the first team in school history. "We started it all. You can't trade those times for anything."

After Evergreen, Foy headed back up to Tacoma, where he grew up before graduating from Stadium High School in 1990 and starting his collegiate basketball career at Tacoma Community College. Working with both the Eastside Boys and Girls Club and the Al Davies Boys and Girls Club, Foy shared his love of basketball with the youth of Tacoma. After moving on to work at Auburn Youth Resources, Foy returned to coaching three years ago, joining the staff of Lincoln High School under Aubrey Shelton, whom Foy coached as a youth at the Boys and Girls Club.

Not to be lost in Foy's cancer fight is his loving family, who has been with him every step of the way as he tackles this devastating disease. Aaron and his wife Carla have four children; son Kashawn (15), daughter Aamori (5) and twins Aamir and Aarmon (16 months).

While Foy is extremely appreciative of Evergreen helping him get the word out regarding his disease and his search for a bone marrow match, he is quick to note that fans shouldn't just be concerned with his fight.

"I want people to come out to help me but if someone else has a need for marrow, don't discriminate," said Foy. "Don't donate just for me, donate for everyone."

For more information regarding the national Be The Match Registry and the need for bone marrow donors, the Puget Sound Blood Center has a webpage at http://www.psbc.org/programs/marrow.htm

Vote for the most outstanding college student civic leaders who will win $25,000 in scholarships and grants

Bellingham, WA – February 15, 2011 - Washington Campus Compact and Inspireum announced today the top 50 semifinalists for the Students In Service Awards, recognizing outstanding college students whose volunteer service positively impacts society and inspires others to serve. Alex Becker from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has been selected as a semifinalist for his work documenting homelessness.

Alex worked with Real Change News, a nonprofit in Seattle, Washington, to produce a collaborative film that highlights the voices of eight homeless and low-income street newspaper vendors. These vendors sold the film, entitled “Turning Points,” for a profit, distributing over 2,000 copies and earning over $12,000. “Interviewing these homeless individuals has opened my eyes to the world around me and inspired me to continue working for social justice,” wrote Alex. “Most of all, it has taught me how to listen. I plan to attend law school and go into public interest law to continue to fight for (and with) those whose voices are too often marginalized in our society.”

Voting Still Open

Students, educators, family members, and other community members are invited to show support by voting for their favorite student and service project through March 3rd, 2011. A national selection committee of esteemed civic leaders will select the winner and runner-up. The committee includes Dr. Rick Battistoni, Professor of Political Science and Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College, Dr. Andrew Furco, Associate Vice President for Public Engagement and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Kerri Heffernan, Director of Faculty Engagement at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, and Dr. Gail Robinson, Director of Service-Learning at the American Association for Community Colleges. The “fan favorite” will be determined purely by supporter vote at www.serviceawards.org. Scholarship recipients and their service projects will be recognized at the 14th Annual Continuums of Service Conference, a nationally recognized service and civic engagement conference in San Diego, CA, on April 28, 2011.

Scholarships and grants totaling $25,000 will be awarded to three category benefactors. The winner will receive a $5,000 academic scholarship, and a runner-up and “fan favorite” will each receive a $2,500 scholarship. In addition, the service-learning centers at the university of each student will receive a $2,500 grant to support civic engagement programs. Additionally, $2,500 grants will be awarded to the nonprofit organizations sponsoring the winning service projects for the purpose of supporting their vital community programs.

“We hope these stories, images and videos are shared at dinner tables across the country, and enlighten students of all ages about the transformational power of service - both for the student, and for those they serve,” said Tom Lindeman, President of Inspireum LLC. “Our program applicants have shown us how service can teach valuable lifelong leadership, problem solving and empathy skills. Through these awards, we hope to motivate more college students to engage in service as an opportunity to build character and positively impact social and environmental challenges around the world.”

About Washington Campus Compact

Established in 1992 and hosted at Western Washington University, Washington Campus Compact and its membership of 41 two- and four-year colleges and universities are committed to providing meaningful experiences for students to become active, engaged leaders in their communities, furthering the civic and public purposes of higher education and strengthening communities. Washington Campus Compact is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 higher education institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education.

Press Contact: Brian Heinrich – Washington Campus Compact / 360-650-4147 / brian.heinrich@wwu.edu

About Insperium

Inspireum provides a comprehensive technology and media platform that helps organizations recognize and reward inspirational young people in America. Inspireum utilizes proprietary platform technology, hosted services and social media to create a comprehensive nomination, voting and donation platform that powers inspirational youth awards, scholarships and fund raising programs. In addition to the Students in Service Awards™, Inspireum in partnership with Trusted Sports, Inc. manages the High School Football Rudy Awards™ honoring athletes who have overcome tremendous obstacles to not only find success on the field, but also serve as an inspiration to others. This scholarship awards program looks beyond traditional athletic performance measures to reward team-oriented values and inspirational impact that help youth succeed throughout life.

Press Contact: Kim Solem – Inspireum LLC / 206-227-2604 / kim_solem@msn.com

For a schedule of events or to learn more, please visit: http://chibichibicon.net/

Al Guskin, former Chancellor of Antioch University and member of the first Peace Corps group to travel overseas, met with President Kennedy at the U. of Michigan in 1961 and urged him to set up such a program which became the Peace Corps.

Bob Textor developed the original training materials used by the Peace Corps to prepare volunteers for their assignments and went on to serve on the faculty of Stanford University for many years. Al and Bob will share with us those heady early days of the Kennedy Administration.

In keeping with the spirit of the Peace Corps, attendees are asked to bring a dish from around the world to share, as well as plates and utensils to reduce the amount of trash left over.

The event is co-sponsored by Olympia World Affairs Council (OWAC), the Olympia Area Peace Corps Association and The Evergreen State College, Center for Community Based Learning and Action.

There are currently 19 undergraduate alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers.

"For the last 50 years, colleges and universities across our country have been an integral part of the Peace Corps family, from developing young leaders, to hosting trainings and teaching the importance of lifelong learning," said Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams. "In 1961, President Kennedy created the Peace Corps in response to the passion of university students, and today we continue to be inspired by the enthusiasm, dedication, and creativity of the thousands of Americans now serving overseas. Colleges instill a commitment to public service among their students and share our belief that, together, we can work to make the world a better place."

Since 1961, 196 Evergreen alumni have served as Peace Corps volunteers. Today, Peace Corps volunteers work in 77 countries in the areas of education, youth and community development, health and HIV/AIDS, business information and communication technology, agriculture and environment.

Other Washington universities that placed on the 2011 Top Colleges rankings are University of Washington in Seattle (No. 3 in large category), Western Washington University in Bellingham (No. 3 in medium category), Gonzaga University in Spokane (No. 3 in small category), University of Puget Sound in Tacoma (No. 8 in small category), and Seattle University in Seattle (No. 23 in small category).

Nationally, the University of Colorado at Boulder outpaced other universities in providing Peace Corps volunteers, with 117 undergraduate alumni currently serving overseas. Prior to 2011, the University of Washington held the top spot for four consecutive years. Historically, the University of California, Berkeley maintains the number one all-time rank, with 3,457 Peace Corps volunteer alumni.

In the medium school category, The George Washington University ranks number one for the third year in a row with 72 undergraduate alumni serving overseas.

Also for the first time, the University of Mary Washington took the top seat in the small school category with 32 undergraduate alumni currently serving volunteers. The University of Mary Washington has ranked in the small school category since 2005.

In the graduate school category, the University of Washington holds the top rank with 21 currently serving volunteers holding master's degrees from the school. It was tied for first place with the University of Texas at Austin last year.

Following are the top five college and universities in each undergraduate category.

See the full list, including graduate schools, here (pdf).

NOTE: numbers in parenthesis represent the number of alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers.

Large University

More than 15,000 undergraduates

University of Colorado at Boulder (117) University of Florida (97) University of Michigan (94) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (94) University of Washington (94)

Medium University

Between 5,001 and 15,000 undergraduates

The George Washington University (72) University of Virginia (71) Western Washington University (60) American University (55) Cornell University (55)

Small University

Less than 5,000 undergraduates

University of Mary Washington (32) St. Olaf College (24) Lewis & Clark College (23) Gonzaga University (23) University of Portland (23)

Rankings are calculated based on fiscal year 2010 data as of September 30, 2010, as self-reported by Peace Corps volunteers.

About the Peace Corps

President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961, by executive order. Throughout 2011, Peace Corps is commemorating 50 years of promoting peace and friendship around the world. Historically, more than 200,000 Americans have served with the Peace Corps to promote a better understanding between Americans and the people of 139 host countries. Today, 8,655 volunteers are working with local communities in 77 host countries. Peace Corps volunteers must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age. Peace Corps service is a 27-month commitment.

The Council will be discussing process and timeline for the biomass gasification feasibility study, and will provide an update on the research.

We hope you can find the time to join us on this evening. We are happy to arrange parking passes for those who wish to attend from off campus. Please contact Dani Madrone, at madroned@evergreen.edu for a parking pass.

For directions to Evergreen, visit our tour & maps site

"Engrossing and enlightening."
–Nancy F. Cott, Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University

"Stephanie Coontz continues to amaze."
–John Bradshaw, author of Reclaiming Virtue and the #1 New York Times bestsellers, Homecoming and Creating Love

"I am awed by the scope of this research. I will keep A Strange Stirring in the forefront of my bookshelf forever."
–Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

An eminent social historian chronicles the extraordinary impact of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique on a "lost generation" of American women

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
By Stephanie Coontz

"The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning....Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - 'Is this All?'"-The Feminine Mystique

In 1963, thousands of women opened Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and read the above paragraph. Nearly 50 years later, many still recall where they were when they read it and how it transformed their lives: "everything just clicked"; Friedan "called it perfectly"; "I never even knew what I was feeling until I read that first chapter"; "I realized I wasn't crazy."

In A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (Basic Books; January 11, 2011), historian Stephanie Coontz draws on extensive research into the popular culture of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and personal interviews with nearly 200 women and men who read The Feminine Mystique shortly after its publication to explore how the wives and daughters of "The Greatest Generation" of men almost became the lost generation of women. Challenging both liberal and conservative myths about what Friedan actually advocated and why so many women responded to her, Coontz reminds us of the dangers of hearkening back to the 1950s and 1960s as a simpler, more satisfying time. "We still haven't fully figured out how to combine a loving family life with a rewarding work life," Coontz writes. "But The Feminine Mystique reminds us of the price women pay when we retreat from trying to resolve these dilemmas or fail to involve men in our attempts."

As Coontz explains, the advances of the suffrage movement and the new social freedoms of the roaring 1920s destroyed the old veneration of female purity and self-sacrificing motherhood without providing women with any new social respect as individuals. While men made enormous economic and political gains in the 1950s and 1960s, women remained legally and social subordinate. In 1963 husbands still retained legal control over almost every aspect of family life. Unmarried women couldn't get credit in their own name, and gender-segregated help-wanted ads advertised for "pretty" gal Fridays. Freudian therapists insisted that normal women found complete fulfillment in homemaking, but popular culture blamed homemaker mothers for emasculating their husbands and infantilizing their sons. Coontz's interviews paint a moving portrait of the pain, confusion, and self-doubt that these mixed messages created in women.

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was the first popular book to tell women it was not their fault that they felt trapped and discontented - that society was at fault for denigrating and wasting their capacities. Friedan's insistence that an ordinary woman could be a person in her own right, in addition to being a wife and mother, came as a revelation to many women, Coontz notes.

Coontz debunks the idea that Friedan was a man-hater, that The Feminine Mystique was anti-marriage, and that, by encouraging women to pursue higher education and devote themselves to their careers, feminism destabilized marriage and doomed many women to a life of loneliness. Yet she also counters many myths that Friedan herself promoted about the origins and consequences of the book. While conceding that Friedan addressed herself only to white, middle-class women, Coontz challenges the common view that African-American women would have loved to devote themselves to full-time homemaking. The real problem with Friedan's neglect of black women, Coontz shows, was that she could have used them as an example of how women could combine their identities as wives, mothers, citizens, and workers.

In her concluding chapter, Coontz summarizes what has changed for women, men, and families and what has not, arguing that although the old feminine mystique no longer prevails, new ones have taken its place. She also challenges media accounts that pit men against women and stay-at-home mothers against employed mothers. "Betty Friedan asked us to imagine a world where men and women can both find meaningful, socially useful work and also participate in the essential activities of love and caregiving for children, partners, parents, friends, and neighbors," Coontz writes, and "that goal is even more relevant today."

About the Author

Stephanie Coontz is the Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families and teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The author of Marriage: A History, The Way We Never Were, and The Way We Really Are, she has written about marriage and family issues in many national publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, and Psychology Today. She lives in Olympia, Washington. www.stephaniecoontz.com

About the Book

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
By Stephanie Coontz
Published by Basic Books
Publication date: January 11, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-465-00200-9, $25.95, Hardcover, 248 pages

RSVPs are encouraged, but not required.
For more information: http://admissions.evergreen.edu/previewday

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to education. Evergreen has been noted as one of the nation's top colleges by the Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, and US News & World Report. The book "Colleges That Change Lives" (www.ctcl.org) by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope, praises Evergreen as one of the three best liberal arts colleges on the West Coast. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) notes that Evergreen excels in areas that lead to student success. Evergreen is also noted as one of America's top "green" colleges, recognizing its leadership in sustainability.

Since taking the helm in March, Director Works has made head coaching hires for men's basketball, women's soccer, and volleyball, and has filled positions in campus recreation, business operations, and athletic training. Works has also guided an effort to advance intramural sports at Evergreen, and has guided the establishment of student-led recreation programs in yoga, tai chi, rock climbing, and cardio fitness.

"Evergreen is an exceptional educational institution," said Works. "While it has been a true joy to help build the foundation here for a strong future in both intercollegiate athletics and campus recreation, I realized that at this point, my interests remain more firmly rooted in academics and law."

Prior to joining the college administration at Evergreen, Works taught philosophy at the University of Arizona, and worked as an attorney in the areas of sports and entertainment law, business law, environmental law, and federal Indian law. She plans to pursue academic work and resume her legal practice.

"We appreciate the work Sarah has done for the college," said Art Costantino, Vice President for Student Affairs. "In her time here, she evidenced a strong commitment to gender equity, built relationships with faculty and enhanced recreational programming."

"We understand and support Sarah's dedication to academics and Indian law," added Costantino. "Our campus recreation and intercollegiate programs have successfully addressed a number of key issues during her time as director."

Executive Associate to the Vice President for Student Affairs Wendy Endress will serve as Interim Athletic Director. She will work with Evergreen's seasoned coaches to maintain support for Evergreen student athletics and recreation programs. Endress has more than 20 years experience as an administrator and has worked with athletics on staffing and budget issues.

Participants will learn about Evergreen's Master of Public Administration, Master in Teaching and Master of Education, and Master of Environmental Studies programs as well as a wide range of other graduate degree opportunities. The fair will feature degree options from the Northwest and across the country.

Some of the participating schools include Antioch University Seattle, Argosy University, Bastyr University, California Institute of Integral Studies, Leadership Institute of Seattle, Lewis and Clark College - Graduate School of Education and Counseling, Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle University (Various Programs) & Seattle University School of Law, University of Washington – Bothell, School of Law, Information School; Walla Walla University – School of Social Work and Sociology, and Western University of Health Sciences among others.

Prospective graduate students will learn about undergraduate requirements, the importance of standardized tests, transcripts and other credentials needed for graduate school admission, and interdisciplinary study options. The event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Library Building Lobby, second floor. Directions to the campus can be found here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

For More Information

Contact Dena Jaskar at (360) 867-6183 or email The Evergreen State College Career Development Center; Phone: (360) 867-6183

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a public, liberal arts college serving Washington. Its mission is to help students realize their potential through innovative, inter-disciplinary educational programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In addition to preparing students within their academic fields, Evergreen provides graduates with the fundamental skills to communicate, to solve problems, and to work collaboratively and independently in addressing real issues and problems. This mission is based on a set of principles that underlies the development of all college programs and services.

Equal Opportunity: The Evergreen State College expressly prohibits discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender, age, disability, or status as a disabled or Vietnam-era veteran. The Evergreen State College is accredited by the Northwest Commission on College and Universities.

Olympia, Washington – The Evergreen State College will host the eighth annual Latino Youth Summit on November 23 in the College Recreation Center from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Other higher education institutions, including Saint Martin’s University, South Puget Sound Community College, and Centralia College, have supported and hosted the Summit throughout its eight-year history.

The Latino Youth Summit, sponsored by The Hispanic Roundtable, will bring together some 500 high school students from Thurston, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Grays Harbor counties for a wide variety of workshops.

This year's theme, "Mis Acciones, Mi Communidad, Mi Futuro (My Actions, My Community, My Future)" particularly stresses the importance of both personal responsibility and community connections in empowering youth. The workshops will cover a multitude of topics, including applying for college and financial aid, immigration, financial literacy, insights into specific careers such as trades, teaching, public safety and health care, and fostering healthy relationships. The event also will feature a performance from local group Lozen and a plenary session called “Our Voices,” that includes current college students, graduates, and professionals.

Students can register online at www.hispanicroundtable.org. Registration forms, full workshop descriptions and other documents can also be downloaded. Space is limited to the first 500 registrants. Unless full prior, registration will close on November 9th.

Partners and supporters of the Latino Youth Summit include Centralia College, CHOICE Regional Health Network, Color Graphics, The College Success Foundation, Community Health Plan of Washington, The Evergreen State College, Greg Anthony Giving Fund, Home Depot, Intel Corporation (Dupont), Lewis County Public Health and Social Services, North Thurston Public Schools, Olympia Credit Union, Saint Martin’s University, Seattle Sounders FC, South Puget Sound Community College, State Farm Insurance, Thurston County Public Health and Social Services, Timberland Regional Library, TOGETHER!, Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers, Washington Federal, Washington State Department of Health, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Washington College Access Network, and Washington State University-Thurston County Extension.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

For additional information, please contact:

Jose L. Diaz, President
The Hispanic Roundtable
Email:  Jose L. Diaz
(360) 520-1917

Latino Youth Summit webpage: http://hispanicroundtable.org/events/LYS2010/index.htm

Olympia, Washington – The Evergreen State College será anfitrión de la Octava Cumbre Anual de la Juventud Latina el próximo 23 de Noviembre, en el Centro de Recreación a partir de las 7:30 am hasta las 2:30 pm. Otras instituciones de alta educación, incluyendo Saint Martin’s University, South Puget Sound Community College, y Centralia College, han apoyado y han sido anfitriones de la Cumbre a través de sus ocho años de historia.

La Cumbre de la Juventud Latina, coordinada por La Mesa Redonda Hispana (“Hispanic Roundtable”), traerá a casi quinientos estudiantes de preparatoria de los condados de Thurston, Lewis, Mason, Pacific y Grays Harbor para involucrarlos en una gran variedad de talleres educativos.

El tema de este año, “Mis Acciones, Mi Comunidad, Mi Futuro”, enfatiza particularmente la importancia de la responsabilidad personal y las conexiones en la comunidad para apoyar a la juventud. Los talleres cubrirán una multitud de temas, incluyendo el cómo inscribirse en el colegio, cómo solicitar ayuda financiera, asuntos de inmigración, capacidad financiera, y el fomento de las relaciones sanas. Los talleres también proporcionarán educación sobre la alta demanda que existe en carreras específicas en los campos del cuidado de la salud, la educación, el comercio, y la seguridad pública. El evento también presentará la actuación del grupo local Lozen y una sesión plenaria llamada “Nuestras Voces”, la cual incluye a estudiantes Latinos universitarios, graduados y profesionales, que compartirán sus experiencias motivacionales con los participantes.

Las formas de inscripción, descripciones completas de los talleres y varios otros documentos, están disponibles para qué los estudiantes puedan inscribirse a través del internet en el sitio www.hispanicroundtable.org. El espacio estará limitado para los primeros 500 estudiantes que se inscriban. La inscripción se cerrará el 9 de noviembre.

Las organizaciones que colaboran coordinando y patrocinando la Cumbre de la Juventud Latina incluyen: Centralia College, CHOICE Regional Health Network, Color Graphics, The College Success Foundation, Community Health Plan of Washington, The Evergreen State College, Greg Anthony Giving Fund, Home Depot, Intel Corporation (Dupont), Lewis County Public Health and Social Services, North Thurston Public Schools, Olympia Credit Union, Saint Martin’s University, Seattle Sounders FC, South Puget Sound Community College, State Farm Insurance, Thurston County Public Health and Social Services, Timberland Regional Library, TOGETHER!, Washington Association of Community and Migrant Health Centers, Washington Federal, Washington State Department of Health, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Washington College Access Network, y Washington State University-Thurston County Extension.

The Evergreen State College es un colegio público altamente reconocido a nivel nacional por sus artes y ciencias liberales, por su currículo de estudios interdisciplinario, y el alto nivel de compromiso de los catedráticos con sus estudiantes enfatizándose el poner el aprendizaje en acción.

Para más informacion, favor de contactar a:

José L. Díaz, Presidente de La Mesa Redonda Hispana
Email: José L. Díaz
(360) 520-1917

Latino Youth Summit webpage: http://hispanicroundtable.org/events/LYS2010/index.htm

The Sustainable Prisons Project.

Started by Evergreen State College professor Nalini Nadkarni, the program offers classes and lectures about sustainability to inmates. The program, which started at Cedar Creek Correctional Facility, has now expanded to three other prisons as well, including McNeil Island, Stafford Creek, and the Purdy women's prison. The broadcast will note how it's offering inmates a unique chance at rehabilitation, and helping our prisons save money and become more sustainable at the same time.

The Evergreen State College has adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College. Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures and delayed starts (no general or non-urgent messages). Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

While e2Campus is designed to facilitate communication during inclement weather or emergencies, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances. Therefore we work to announce weather in multiple ways:

1. E2 Campus notification (sign up here or at my.evergreen.edu for this free automatic email and/or text message notification);
2. Local radio and television stations;
3. The college Web site
4. Evergreen's information number - 360-867-6000 (recorded information).
5. Suspended Operations, Evergreen Employee Leave and Pay Policy.

“To forget one’s own oppression is to open the possibility of becoming the oppressor.” From Marc Ellis, Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation

On Friday, October 29 and Saturday, October 30, Marc Ellis, noted Jewish theologian and philosopher, will be speaking at The Evergreen State College and in Olympia.

Ellis is the Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, and author of a number of books, including: Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century; Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation; and Judaism Does not Equal Israel.

Marc Ellis will also make two presentations in the Olympia community:
Saturday, Oct. 30, 1-3pm
Marc Ellis hosts a conversation about his writing

Orca Books, 509 Fourth Avenue, Olympia
Saturday, Oct. 30, 7pm
"Jews of Conscience and the Quest for Justice in Palestine and Israel"
701 Franklin Street, Olympia

Professor Ellis' visit is sponsored by the President’s Diversity Fund Committee, the Rachel Corrie Foundation, Olympia Friends Peace and Social Justice Committee, Olympia BDS, the Middle East Solidarity Project and the following academic programs: Visions and Voices; Imperialism; Nonfiction Media; Memory and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean; and Cutting Through the Clamor: Writing for Change.

• Mark's biography from OSU is available here: http://www.cof.orst.edu/100faces/bios/mharmon.php

One of his commonly referenced papers (PDF):

• Successional changes in live and dead wood carbon stores: implications for net ecosystem productivity (PDF)

Guests at The Evergreen State College's Washington Women in Public Leadership Panel will include Senator Karen Fraser, Representative Kathy Haigh, Representative Lynn Kessler, and Dr. Thelma Jackson. The event is part of Evergreen's celebration of 100 years of Women's Right to Vote in Washington and is organized by the Evergreen Women's Suffrage Centennial Committee.

Participants

Senator Karen Fraser, Democrat Thurston County is the capital budget vice chair of the Senate Ways & Means Committee. She is on the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Trade Policy and the Governor's Committee on Transforming Washington's Budget. Senator Fraser has taken strong advocacy positions for education, the arts and for creating opportunities for employment.

A long-time advocate for education, Representative Kathy Haigh, Democrat Mason County has served on the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee as well as several commissions on public education funding. She currently serves as Chair of the House Education Appropriations Committee and as a member of the Legislative Audit and Review Committee.

Representative Lynn Kessler, Democrat District 24 currently serves as Majority Leader in the Washington House and as a member of the Ways and Means and Rules Committees. She has been appointed to the Open Government Task Force, Sunshine Committee, and The Washington State Arts Committee. She has a history of work in the nonprofit sector and has been active in the oversight of topics ranging from finance to international relations, higher education and health care as a legislator.

Dr. Thelma Jackson serves on the Governor's Committee on Transforming Washington's Budget. In addition she served on Task Forces and Advisory Councils for four former Governors of the State of Washington. Additionally, she has served as President of the Washington State School Directors Association and as Chairperson of the Washington State Legislative Ethics Board; and was formerly President of the Board of Trustees of The Evergreen State College.

Evergreen to host the 2010 Pauling Medal Award Symposium and Banquet November 6, Featuring World-Renowned Experts in Nanotechnology

The Pauling Award is given in recognition of outstanding contribution to chemistry meriting national and international recognition and is among one of highest honors awarded in chemistry. The event taking place at The Evergreen State College is sponsored by the Puget Sound, Oregon, and Portland Sections of the American Chemical Society.

Speakers at The Pauling Symposium to be held in Lecture Hall 1 at 1 p.m. on November 6, 2010are Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Professor Phillip Geissler from U.C. Berkeley and Professor Yi Cui from Stanford University, and the 2010 Pauling Medalist, Professor Paul Alivisatos from U.C. Berkeley

The symposium is free and open to the public, without reservations. Driving directions to The Evergreen State College can be found at: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

Following the symposium, Professor Armand Paul Alivisatos will be awarded the Pauling Medal at a banquet given in his honor. The Banquet Reservation Form can be downloaded from the Pauling Symposium Website at: http://blogs.evergreen.edu/pauling/. A special student rate is available for the first twenty-five students.

About Dr. Alivisatos

Armand Paul Alivisatos is the Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the founding editor of Nano Letters (a publication of the American Chemical Society), which celebrated its ten year anniversary in the fall of 2010. Paul Alivisatos's research concerns the structural, optical, thermodynamic, and electrical properties of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals. He investigates the fundamental physical and chemical properties of nanocrystals and works to develop practical applications of these new materials in biomedicine and renewable energy. He is the scientific founder of Quantum Dot Corporation, Nanosys Inc. and Solexant Inc.

Professor Alivisatos is an Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), an Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004), a Materials Research Society Fellow I2009), and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009).

Professor Alivisatos earned his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry with Honors in 1981 from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1986.

Yolanda Cruz, an award-winning Chatino filmmaker from Oaxaca, Mexico, will present her most recent film and engage in discussion on documentary filmmaking and her experiences filming in indigenous Oaxacan villages, where migration to the U.S. has significantly changed the reality of life on both sides of the border. The event will take place on November 2 at The Evergreen State College in Lecture Hall 1 at 7 p.m.

Yolanda Cruz will also be a guest of the Shelton public schools, where she will be showing "2501 Migrants" to junior high school and high school students and will discuss the experiences that led her to become a filmmaker.

Cruz, a Sundance Institute NativeLab Fellow has produced seven documentaries on native people in the US and Mexico. Her first film while a graduate student at UCLA, Entre Sueños, was selected to the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.

Her other films include: Women Who Organize, a look at Mixtec women who have created a mini-credit to provide emergency funds to their community and Sueños Binacionales, a documentary about the bi-national experience of indigenous immigrants from Mexico. Guenati'za (The Visitors) is the story of Ulises, an Indian Zapotec who is a gardener in Los Angeles. The film follows him back to his community to host a traditional party in the Northern Mountains of Oaxaca. MENA features the stories of a group of indigenous women who are organizing the exportation of their product, the nopal cactus, to the United States.

Cruz' recent film, 2501 Migrants: A Journey, is a feature-length documentary that explores global migration through the art of Oaxacan artist, Alejandro Santiago. Upon his return from France to his village, Teococuilco, Alejandro experiences, first hand, the reality that Oaxaca has emerged as one of Mexico's leading exporters of human labor to the United States. In response, he decides to create a monumental installation art work: 2,501 life-size sculptures, in homage to each migrant who left his village.

The film was an Official Selection at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and was the Winner for Best Documentary Film at the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival. Additionally, 2501 Migrants has screened at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. It is also being screened at the Smithsonian in New York and Washington DC during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15).

Cruz' work has received support from The Rockefeller Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. Her films have been screened at film festivals and museums internationally, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Park la Villette in Paris and the National Institute of Cinema in Mexico City. Cruz is fluent in English, Spanish and Chatino, and harbors a passionate drive to increase the representation of indigenous people in the media.

In 2003, she formed Petate Productions. The focus of the company is to connect the voices of sustainable indigenous communities in Mexico with their new, still very Oaxacan communities throughout the U.S.

Yolanda Cruz graduated from The Evergreen State College with a concentration in filmmaking and film studies. She received her MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband. For more information about Yolanda's work, please visit http://www.petate.com.

The Evergreen Women's Suffrage Centennial Committee is proud to invite you to attend events in honor of the centennial anniversary

October 21 through November 17

Complete Schedule Online
Complete Schedule (PDF)

Headline Events

October 28th

Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series
Blanche Wiesen Cook speaking on "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Future of Human Rights"

November 17th

Women in Public Leadership Panel

Grand opening activities will occur from 1 to 6 p.m. at the College Activities Building on Campus. Tours will commence every half hour from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The program includes live music, prizes, and specials at our Greener Store, Student Activities, Conference Services, The Marketplace, and The Flaming Eggplant Café and much more. The ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 3:30 p.m.

The College Activities Building largely student-funded renovation was developed as a space for and by students, with innovations in design preparing it for LEED Gold Certification (application in process).

A selection of events and specials include:

At the Greener Store from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm there will be 20% off clothing and gifts. There will also be a prize wheel offering "spin and win" for a DVD player, digital camera, backpack, clothing and other gifts

At the The Flaming Eggplant from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. there will be free samples of kombucha and food specials for the day. Student art display at the Café

In Student Activities from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. there will be an open house, including popcorn, music, and tours

Conference Services will also be conducting tours

The Market is offering 15 percent off from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The Greenery is offering 15 percent off from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with steak and shrimp dinner beginning at 5:00 p.m.

Focusing on funding and policy issues facing the region, with an eye towards higher education, the forum will provide the opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to hear from candidates for the Washington Legislature and to pose questions to candidates.

Who

Legislative District 20: Corinne Tobeck, Gary Alexander; Legislative District 22: Jason Hearn, Chris Reykdal; Legislative District 35: Kathy Haigh, Linda Simpson; Legislative District 2: Marilyn Rasmussen

When

October 13, 2010 3:00-5:00 pm

Where

Recital Hall, Communications Building, The Evergreen State College

Format

All candidates will give an opening remark. After the opening remarks, all candidates will be asked a prepared question this will be followed by questions from the audience. Questions from the audience will be submitted on cards and edited and selected by the moderator. Each candidate will have the opportunity to answer the questions posed.

As part of its commitment to access and diversity, Evergreen has been a longtime partner with the GEAR UP program for low-income students (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). The Governor has issued a proclamation declaring today Washington GEAR UP Day to recognize the work done by colleges, schools and community organizations across the state to raise awareness of college opportunities and improve access to higher education.

Washington GEAR UP serves over 27,000 students in grades 6-12 and has helped thousands of students achieve their dreams of a college education since its inception in 1999.

Evergreen's GEAR UP staff would like to recognize and thank its partners today - parents, students, community organizations, school staff, and members of the Evergreen community - for their active roles and participation in support of our program.

Celebration activities are occurring today at our GEAR UP sites in the Clover Park and Oakville School Districts.

Panelists from the Office of Insurance Commissioner, AARP, Community Health Care, the Washington State Hospital Association, and the Joint Select Committee on Health Reform Implementation will provide information and answer questions.

The forum will take place on Tuesday, October 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Evergreen State College, Tacoma campus at 1210 6th Avenue, Tacoma Washington 98405

The event is sponsored by the Tacoma Urban League, the Korean Women's Association, the National Organization for Women and the Pierce County Center for Dispute Resolution.

The auction event sponsored by the Washington State Employees Credit Union, Columbia Bank, Sans M. Gilmore, P.S. Inc., Pure Audio, and The Evergreen State College Foundation features gourmet delicacies, music by Ocho Pies, and the opportunity to bid on original art and exciting experiences from the Northwest and across the nation.

Silent and Live Auctions will include curated, original artwork in a variety of media from Cappy Thompson, Lynda Barry, Nikki McClure, Lynne Yamamoto, Andrea Wilbur-Sigo, Anna McKee, Janice Arnold, Susan Aurand, Marilyn Frasca, Jean Mandeberg and many other established artists.

The event will also include the opportunity for participants to bid on art experiences like studio tours, dining experiences, vacations, and more.

The first Art of Living in 2009 was a resounding success, raising more than $75,000 for direct student scholarship support.

To learn more and purchase tickets for the event, please visit the Art of Living website at http://give.evergreen.edu/artofliving/

Over the past two decades, the U.S. News college rankings, which group schools based on categories created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has grown as a research tool for students and parents considering higher education opportunities.

The 2011 Best Colleges feature the US News rankings of the Best National Universities and Best National Liberal Arts Colleges. Evergreen was recognized for a strong commitment to teaching by the magazine. It was also among the top tier, best colleges in the West, with only four public colleges ranking higher in a region that ranges from Texas to Washington State. Evergreen's overall ranking in the West was 29th in the Best Regional category for the West.

The 2011 Best Colleges provides an examination of how more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools compare on a set of up to 16 widely accepted indicators of excellence. Among the factors weighed in determining the rankings, key measures of quality are: peer assessment, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, and alumni giving.

For more information about Best Colleges, visit www.usnews.com/colleges.

About The Evergreen State College:

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

For Immediate Release

Young people in all socioeconomic groups have college aspirations. In fact, eight out of 10 expect to attain a bachelor's degree or higher, according to the U.S. Department of Education. But despite these aspirations, low-income students and those who are the first in their families to pursue higher education are severely underrepresented on college campuses.

According to the College Board, high-achieving students from low-income families have about the same chance of enrolling in college as low-achieving students from wealthier families. And even worse, those who do make it to college are not finding supportive college environments or graduating. A recent USA Today article notes that 89 percent of low-income, first-generation students leave college within six years without a degree.

The Evergreen State College is working to change this trend and has been recognized in Center for Student Opportunity's 2011 College Access & Opportunity Guide, a comprehensive college guidebook designed to help low-income, first-generation college-bound students make their college dreams a reality.

According to data provided by Evergreen's Institutional Research and Assessment Office , 27 percent of students were first generation in Fall 2009, with a rising proportion of students since 2007. Evergreen defines "first generation" as students for whom none of their parents earned a four-year college degree or higher. In Fall 2009, 36.7 percent of students were low income (defined as ≤150% federal poverty level).

Published by Sourcebooks, a leader in college guides and study aids, the 2011 College Access & Opportunity is significant breakthrough in providing students and their supporters with the necessary information to pursue and succeed in college.

The Guide features

• 284 colleges and universities highlighted for their outreach efforts, financial aid opportunities and student support services
• A 4 step plan to college developed by partners, KnowHow2GO
• Articles and advice from college students and other experts
• Valuable information for parents and mentors, including a new Spanish-language section

"We want to show students and their supporters that the opportunity for college is there," said Matt Rubinoff, Executive Director of Center for Student Opportunity. "The 2011 College Access & Opportunity Guide is a special resource that provides guidance through the college process and delivers important information on college programs aimed to serve low-income, first-generation college students."

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

About Center for Student Opportunity

Center for Student Opportunity (CSO) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting higher education opportunities for first-generation and other historically underserved college-bound students. CSO programs serve colleges and universities, counselors, and community-based organizations in support of their college access goals. More information about CSO is available at www.CSOpportunity.org.

Contact for the Center for Student Opportunity:

Matt Rubinoff;  (949) 481-0073; mrubinoff@csopportnity.org

Contact for Sourcebooks, Inc. Publisher of College Access & Opportunity Guide:

Carrie Gellin, Sourcebooks, Inc., (630) 961-3900 ext 258; carrie.gellin@sourcebooks.com

Contacts for The Evergreen State College:

Jason Wettstein (360) 867-5213; wettstej@evergreen.edu;
or Todd Sprague (360) 867-6042; spraguet@evergreen.edu

Evergreen praised in top list for green efforts for the third consecutive year

Sierra magazine has named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably. From Green Mountain College’s innovative biomass electricity generation to Georgia Tech’s sustainable engineering classes, the magazine’s September/October cover story spotlights the schools that are making a true difference for the planet, and marks Sierra’s fourth annual listing of America’s greenest universities and colleges. The complete list is available online at http://www.sierraclub.org/coolschools.

The Evergreen State College placed third on the list. Sustainability initiatives at Evergreen include efforts to reduce waste, conserve energy, achieve climate neutrality, as well as the college’s work to provide learning resources through its salmon-safe certified organic farm and sustainable living and food choice options in which students consciously choose a better way to relate to their natural world.

“With all of the environmental challenges we face, it’s heartening to see the leadership schools like Evergreen demonstrate when it comes to protecting the planet,” said Michael Brune, the Sierra Club’s executive director. “This generation of students cares deeply about protecting the environment, stopping global warming, and increasing our prosperity through innovation.”

This year’s top-20 coolest schools are taking dramatic steps to curb climate change. From small, environmentally focused liberal arts colleges to the largest research universities, schools across the country are helping to move the country towards a more sustainable future.

Sierra’s Top 20 coolest schools of 2010 are:

1. Green Mountain College (Poultney, Vermont)
2. Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
3. The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington)
4. University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
5. Stanford University (Palo Alto, California)
6. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
7. Northland College (Ashland, Wisconsin)
8. Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
9. College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine)
10. Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts)
11. University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
12. [TIE] Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
13. University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
14. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, North Carolina)
15. University California, San Diego (San Diego, California)
16. University of California, Davis (Davis, California)
17. [TIE] University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)
18. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
19. New York University (New York, New York)
20. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia)

Sierra magazine has 1.2 million readers and is a publication of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental group. For full descriptions of each winning school’s green efforts, visit Sierra magazine online at: www.sierraclub.org/coolschools.

‘Military Friendly Schools’ List Aims to Help Veterans Find Colleges that are a Good Fit

G.I. Jobs recently announced the release of its 2011 list of Military Friendly Schools at www.militaryfriendlyschools.com/2011list. The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools which are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students.

The Evergreen State College was included on this list.

Schools on the list range from state universities and private colleges to community colleges and trade schools. The common bond is their shared priority of recruiting students with military experience.

Innovations in Policy and Practice at Evergreen

Evergreen is becoming widely recognized as a leader in working to provide a supportive and welcoming environment for student veterans.

• Evergreen has an established Veterans Support Working Group made up of students, staff and faculty -- and a Student Veteran Organization.
• Last May, The Evergreen State College organized the first ever regional higher education summit on veterans’ needs, experiences and retention. War and the Soul: Creating Healing Academic Communities for Our Nation’s Veterans provided a training and networking conference for those in the higher education and military communities. The summit attracted participants throughout the Pacific Northwest, and featured internationally renowned experts Edward Tick and Nancy Schiesari.
• Annual events include a Fall Quarter Veterans Reception in which a Veterans Medallion is presented to all identified incoming veterans in recognition of their service, a tradition of celebration of Veterans Day for the past 16 years, and Memorial Day recognition efforts including distribution of some 2,000 Memorial Day poppies among a college population of some 5,600 (including students, faculty and staff.)
• Evergreen also aims to attract veterans and their dependents through recruitment efforts, outreach and tuition waivers year round for qualifying veterans and veterans’ dependents.

GI Jobs Compiles List as Resource for Veterans

The GI Jobs list was compiled through exhaustive research starting last April when the magazine polled more than 7,000 schools nationwide. Methodology, criteria and weighting for the list were developed with the assistance of an Academic Advisory Board (AAB) consisting of educators from Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, Colorado State University, Dallas County Community College, Old Dominion University, Cleveland State University, Lincoln Technical Institute and Embry Riddle; as well as Keith Wilson, VA’s director of education services; Michele Spires, American Council on Education’s assistant director of military programs; Janet Swandol, associate director for CLEP and Derek Blumke, president of Student Veterans of America. A full list of board members can be found at http://militaryfriendlyschools.com/Article/advisory-board/

A full story and detailed list of Military Friendly Schools will be highlighted in G.I. Jobs annual Guide to Military Friendly Schools and on a poster, both of which will be distributed to hundreds of thousands of active and former military personnel in late September. The newly redesigned website, found at www.militaryfriendlyschools.com, features interactive tools and search functionality to assist military veterans in choosing schools that best meet their personal educational needs. The site currently shows 2010 Military Friendly Schools but will switch to the 2011 list in late September. Criteria for making the Military Friendly Schools list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruiting military and veteran students and academic accreditations.

About G.I. Jobs

G.I. Jobs (www.gijobs.com) is published by Victory Media, a veteran-owned business which also publishes The Guide to Military Friendly Schools, Military Spouse and Vetrepreneur magazines and annually rates the nation’s “Military Friendly Employers,” “Military Spouse Friendly Employers” and “Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses.”

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

Celebrating 37 years of community service, KAOS is the South Sound's only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service, offering a wide range of independent music, local and global news, and community information since 1973. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

One of Thurston County's largest volunteer-based organizations, KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment ignored by major media.

Nathan Brockett is a senior at Evergreen pursuing a Bachelors of Arts and Sciences with emphases in Molecular Biology and Social Change through Nonprofit Leadership. Nathan will join the Board of Trustees on July 26, 2010 and will continue through June 30, 2011.

About Nathan Brockett

Nathan Brockett brings to Evergreen a personal history of working for empowerment and encouraging people to embrace differences.

Currently Nathan serves as the chair on the Board of Directors for Stonewall Youth, a local queer youth empowerment nonprofit that began twenty years ago as a student group at Evergreen.

Nathan also serves as vice-president of the Board of Directors for the United Communities Aids Network (UCAN) and has been an integral part in strategically repositioning the organization, helping to realize a collaborative model through a downtown move and co-location with Stonewall Youth and Partners in Prevention Education (PIPE).

Engaged in a pattern of proactive volunteerism, Nathan coordinates the Friends of Stonewall Youth fundraising and outreach committee and has chaired a variety of committees in the past.

Nathan is from Eugene Oregon. At the age of seventeen through participation in the Youth Action Board, Nathan worked to identify and remedy the problem of underrepresentation of youth in positions of leadership.

Nathan was an organizer and presenter at the Youth Empowerment Summit, working with the city mayor to address concerns of ageism and homophobia in the city police. Community education efforts became regular affairs. Presentations, workshops, and seminars for the Oregon Family Support Network, Power of Hope Leadership Summit, District Cross-Cultural Leadership Conference, state Gay-Straight Alliance Summit, and many other efforts were soon to follow.

On campus, Nathan has been the Resident Assistant for Gender Neutral Housing and the Peer Educator on Smoking. Nathan also rekindled the Trans and Queer accessibility work group and now participates in their standing committee.

A history of outstanding academic achievement and activism has led to Nathan earning merit and tuition awards including Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction, the Portland Area Business Association award, the Armistead Maupin Creative Writing award, and the National Science Foundation scholarship for outstanding academic promise. Nathan is also the two-time recipient of the Thayer Raymond Memorial scholarship for outstanding community service.

Nathan consistently demonstrates a passion for education, paired with a deep commitment to transforming oppression--due to age, socioeconomics, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, ability, background or experience--into unconditional respect for our sameness and open celebration of our differences.

Nathan has asked that no pronouns (he/she/him/her/his/hers/etc.) be used in this bio. This is in solidarity with gender equity outside of the gender binary (man/woman), and in keeping with their identity.

Evergreen Also Earns Top Score of 99 on Princeton Review’s Green Rating

The Evergreen State College is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2011 edition of its annual college guide, "The Best 373 Colleges."

Only about 15% of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories.

The Evergreen State College also achieved a Green Rating of 99, the highest possible score, placing it on Princeton’s Green Honor Roll. The top Green Rating comes after numerous accolades including most recently recognition by Edward Fiske as one of the top 10 ten undergraduate environmental studies programs and previous green awards and recognitions by Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and Grist Magazine, among others.

The schools in The Best 373 Colleges have ratings that The Princeton Review tallies based on institutional data collected from the schools during the 2009-10 academic year and/or its student survey for the book. The ratings scores are on a scale of 60 to 99 and they appear in each school profile. The eight categories include: Academics, Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, Fire Safety, and Green, a measure of school's commitment to environmentally-related policies, practices and education. The Princeton Review explains the basis for each rating score in the book and at www.princetonreview.com/college/college-ratings.aspx

Robert Franek, Princeton Review's Senior Vice President of Publishing and author of The Best 373 Colleges, says "We commend Evergreen for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book. Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and our 28-member National College Counselor Advisory Board. We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character."

The Princeton Review does not rank the colleges in the book academically or from 1 to 373 in any category. Instead it reports in the book 62 ranking lists of "top 20" colleges in various categories. The lists are entirely based on The Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book and not on The Princeton Review's opinion of the schools. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their own schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Topics range from assessments of their professors as teachers to opinions about their financial aid and campus food. Other ranking lists are based on student reports about their student body's political leanings, race/class relations, and LGBT community acceptance. The Princeton Review explains the basis for each ranking list in the book and at www.princetonreview.com/college/college-rankings.aspx

The Princeton Review has posted the school profiles and ranking lists in The Best 373 Colleges at PrincetonReview.com. There visitors can find further information about the book, the student survey, the rankings, the ratings, and other features in the book including its "Honor Roll" lists saluting schools with ratings of 99 in various categories, and "Best Value Colleges for 2010" list.

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

Contacts for The Evergreen State College:
Jason Wettstein (wettstej@evergreen.edu) (360) 867-5213 orTodd Sprague  (spraguet@evergreen.edu) (360) 867-6042.

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for more than 28 years through college and graduate school test preparation and tutoring. With more than 165 print and digital publications and a free website, (www.PrincetonReview.com), the company provides students and their parents with the resources to research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education.

Contacts for The Princeton Review: Leah Pennino (LPennino@Review.com) 508-663-5133 or Jeanne Krier, 212-539-1350 (jeanne@jeannekrier.com).

The gate incorporates elements of both Sukiya and Shoin style architecture. Sukiya architecture is the more rustic style of teahouses. Shoin originally referred to the room used for studying and daily living, but developed into a style adopted by the 15th Japanese military elite who wanted to imitate the style at the imperial court. There will be a small exhibit of models created by Sukiya I that show the development of Japanese architectural style in June. The construction is a gabled-roofed, six post, open portal gate designed and built in the style of a late 17th Century garden gate. The structure is made of recycled timber and will have minimal environmental impact. The timber was donated by Puget Sound Energy and the City of Olympia Urban Forestry Department.

Directions and a map of the campus can be found here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

Day of Caring is an annual event where hundreds of volunteers from throughout Thurston County join local nonprofit and other community organizations to work on service projects. Participating organizations are matched with volunteers who give their time, talent and services to change our community for the better in one day.

Not only does Day of Caring have a significant impact on the needs of local nonprofits, it also enables volunteers to meet new people, work as a team and gain new experiences. Day of Caring also kicks off United Way's annual campaign which raises funds to meet local health and human service needs.

Day of Caring also coordinates with The Evergreen State College's "Community to Community Action Day", which engages incoming college freshmen in local volunteer projects during their orientation week.

United Way, in partnership with the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason & Thurston Counties, invites agencies to submit a project through an easy online registration process. To sign up to host a project, go to www.volunteer.ws . The deadline for applications is August 1.

The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011 features 45 of the Best Buy Schools. These institutions are based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.

This year, Fiske names 45 institutions—21 public and 24 private—as Best Buys. These institutions fall into the inexpensive or moderate price category with four or five star academic ratings, and prove that sometimes the price and quality of a university do not go hand and hand.

The Evergreen State College is a 2011 Fiske Best Buy School.

Other Pacific Northwest Schools included are University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and University of Washington.

About Edward Fiske

Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of the New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote The Fiske Guide to Colleges to help them. He co-wrote, along with Bruce G. Hammond, The Fiske Guide to Nailing the SAT, as well as Fiske What to do When for College and The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College.

For more information, please visit http://www.sourcebookscollege.com and http://fiskeguide.com.

The revised and updated 2011 edition of The Fiske Guide to Colleges by Edward B. Fiske features over 300 of the country’s best and most interesting colleges and universities. Readers will discover the real personality of each school based on a broad range of subjects including student body, academics, social life, and financial aid.

Edward Fiske has personally handpicked ten undergrad environmental studies programs that should be on students’ radar for the 2011 academic year.

• Colby College – In small-town Maine, an ideal perch to study the environment.
• College of the Atlantic – Tiny college for alternative types that is totally devoted to environmental study.
• University of California at Davis – The University of California’s cow college, and its hub for studying the environment.
• University of Colorado at Boulder – There is no bigger draw than Boulder for the nation’s green movement.
• Dartmouth College – The Ivy League’s only rural outpost, and its leading program in environmental studies.
• Eckerd College – Small college near St. Petersburg with its own stretch of Gulf Coast beach.
• The Evergreen State College – Epicenter of all things green in the Pacific Northwest.
• University of North Carolina at Asheville – Set among the North Carolina mountains
• Tulane University – After Hurricane Katrina, Tulane stepped up its game.
• University of Washington – Leader in the study of the environment in the seas as well as on land.

The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011 is fiercely independent. The Fiske Guide accepts no consulting, advertising, or other fees from colleges and has no outside relationship with colleges working on its behalf. The Fiske Guide’s only goal is to help future students select the best colleges to reach their own goals.

About Edward Fiske

Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of the New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote The Fiske Guide to Colleges to help them. He co-wrote, along with Bruce G. Hammond, The Fiske Guide to Nailing the SAT, as well as Fiske What to do When for CollegeThe Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College.

For more information, visit http://www.sourcebookscollege.com and http://fiskeguide.com.

"We sincerely appreciate the work that Jeff has done at Evergreen," said Evergreen Athletic Director Sarah Works, "and we wish him the very best with his future endeavors."

Drinkwine has not announced his future coaching plans. The Evergreen State College will begin an immediate search for his replacement.

Evergreen Athletics include basketball, cross-country, soccer, track and field, volleyball, and club sports. The college also offers recreation opportunities available to the campus and the larger Olympia community.
Learn more at www.evergreen.edu/athletics

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Evergreen Tacoma Annual Fund supporting student scholarships, math and writing tutors, and critical campus needs.

Items for sale will include gently used toys, household items, clothing, and more.

The event is sponsored by the Evergreen Alumni Association.

Tacoma - The Washington State History Museum and the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at The Evergreen State College present the fifth annual "In the Spirit" celebration, which includes an exhibit and the Northwest Native Arts Market & Festival.

In the Spirit: Contemporary Northwest Native Arts Exhibit showcases the work of contemporary Native American artists, all living and working in the Pacific Northwest. A jury comprised of Native American art experts selected the exhibit's featured pieces. The exhibit will be on display through September 19 at the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington.

In the Spirit: Northwest Native Arts Market & Festival

August 7 and August 8; 10 am - 5 pm daily, Washington State History Museum
Outdoor activities are Free

This weekend Festival offers guests an opportunity to partake in Native American traditions, and to purchase art and support these local artists. Check out a variety of products from some of the best Pacific Northwest weavers, printmakers, carvers, bead artists and other artisans. Visitors can experience Native American culture by taking in live performances from Native dancers, musicians, and storytellers.

List of all the artists scheduled to attend the Festival

Schedule

Saturday, August 7

• 10 am – Robert Satiacum, opening and prayer
• 10:30 am – Rona Yellowrobe Walsh, flutist
• 1 pm – Henare and Tawera Tahuri, Māori dancers from New Zealand with Gene Tagaban (Tlingit)
• 3 pm – Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers

Sunday, August 8

• Noon – Sngagim Axasniikangin (Dream Dancers)
• 1:30 pm – Henare and Tawera Tahuri, Māori dancers from New Zealand with Gene Tagaban (Tlingit)
• 3 pm – Awards for "People's Choice," "Artist's Choice," and "Pendleton Prize"

About the Washington State History Museum

The Washington State History Museum, flagship of the Washington State Historical Society, is located at 1911 Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma, just off 1-5. The Washington State History Museum presents exhibits, programs and events that bring Washington's history to life. The Washington State Historical Society has been dedicated to collecting, preserving and vividly presenting Washington's rich and varied history since 1891.

Hours (through Labor Day)

Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm, with extended hours and free admission every third Thursday from 2 -  pm

Hours (After Labor Day)

Wednesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm, with extended hours and free admission every third Thursday from 2 - 8 pm

Admission

$8 for adults; $7 for seniors, age 60 and above; $6 for students and military* with valid ID; children, age 5 and below, and members are always FREE.

Through September 5, active duty military and their immediate family members are free as part of Blue Star Museums program.

Contact

1-888-BE THERE
www.WashingtonHistory.org

The Five “Teachers of the Year”

• Amada Lang, MiT 2005, an Art Specialist at Horizons Elementary School in Lacey
• Brian Eggleston, MiT 2005 a Spanish teacher at Washougal High School
• Jeremiah Tuckett, MiT 2006 who teaches environmental science, biology, and integrated science at South Sound High School, Lacey
• Sally Jamison, MiT 2007 who teaches language arts and reading at Chinook Middle School, Lacey
• Lisa Lamoreaux, M. Ed 2010 who teaches Grade 9-12 special education at River Ridge High School in Lacey.

More information about the Master in Education or Master in Teaching is available online at http://www.evergreen.edu/med/ and http://www.evergreen.edu/mit/.

The Evergreen State College Students Contribute over 2,000 Hours Mentoring Youth

Bellingham, Washington, May 11, 2010 – Students at The Evergreen State College have contributed over 2,000 hours in mentoring students, most through the Gateways for Incarcerated Youth. These efforts are organized by the AmeriCorps Retention Project, funded by Washington Campus Compact, a program that supports and directs efforts to recruit college students to mentor at-risk youth to prepare them for college.

The Retention Project has placed 20 AmeriCorps members at 15 campuses statewide and has long had a presence at The Evergreen State College and its Gateways for Incarcerated Youth. In this model, Evergreen students are recruited and trained by the AmeriCorps member to mentor incarcerated youth at two state juvenile detention facilities, Maple Lane and Green Hill. The program serves approximately 40-45 juveniles at Maple Lane and 20 young men at Green Hill each year. The number of hours already served in mentoring and academic support by Evergreen students is over 2,000 hours.

Sixty one Evergreen students are members of AmeriCorps Students in Service. They can be found tutoring, working in school gardens, at the food banks, fighting homelessness, supporting literacy programs and much more.

Established in 1992 and hosted at Western Washington University, Washington Campus Compact is committed to providing meaningful experiences for students to become active, engaged leaders in their communities, furthering the civic and public purposes of higher education, and strengthening communities. Washington Campus Compact has 35 college and university members throughout Washington state. It is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,200 colleges and universities committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education.

Contact: Brian Heinrich, (360) 650-4147
brian.heinrich@wwu.edu

The Hilltop Career Fair, sponsored by The Evergreen State College–Tacoma, the Evergreen–Tacoma Student Activities Board, and Bates Technical College will take place Tuesday, May 18th on The Evergreen State College's Tacoma campus. This year's theme is "Find Tomorrow's Leaders Today" and is an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with several of the area's largest and most respected employers.

The Hilltop Career Fair will run from 2-6pm and is intended to provide an opportunity for students and community members to meet with potential employers and community organizations, explore career options and fields, and learn more about the type of positions that are available at area companies. Evergreen–Tacoma is located at 1210 6th Avenue, on the corner of 6th and M Street. Directions to the campus at http://www.evergreen.edu/tacoma/driving.htm

At 2pm, Dr. Artee Young, Executive Director of The Evergreen State College – Tacoma program, will kick-off the event with an introduction and welcome. The fair is free and open to the public.

Over 25 businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about full/part-time employment, future openings and work internships. Some of the employers include; AFLAC, The Boys and Girls Club of Pierce County, The City of Tacoma, The Federal Way School District, Fred Meyer, Maxim Healthcare and United Way.

There will also be career-related workshops put on by the Employment Security Department as well as opportunities for "mock interviews" from The Evergreen State College Career Development Center. If you have questions, please contact Arvin Mosley at  (253) 680-3034 or mosleya@evergreen.edu.

Fans of science will love the seventh annual Science Carnival set for Friday May 28 and Saturday May 29 from 10 am to 3 pm each day.

(Olympia, Wash.) The Science Carnival is free and open to the public. The event offers hundreds of presentations from Evergreen science students with an emphasis on demonstration, hands on participation and fun. Designed for students kindergarten through college or anyone with an interest in science, the Science Carnival will feature distinctive presentations such as Kids and Chemistry, Cascadia subduction zone, Mapping other Planets in our Solar System, Mendelian Genetics, and Making Biodiesel, including hands-on experiments that will engage the minds of school children and teenagers. Participants can choose from as many as a dozen presentations at any given time. Each presentation lasts 20 to 50 minutes and many popular topics will be repeated over the two days.

Topics covered will include chemistry, computer science, biology, food science, health science, optics, physics, criminal science, astronomy, geology, marine science, and others. Anyone with an interest in the physical world will enjoy the Science Carnival, the largest event of its kind in Washington State.

The Science Carnival takes place at The Evergreen State College in Olympia – 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505.

Directions to the campus available on our Maps & Tour web pages

Preview the science carnival online: http://academic.evergreen.edu/events/sciencecarnival/

• When: 7pm, Wednesday, May 26
• Where: Lecture Hall 3, Evergreen campus, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505
• Directions to campus
• Price: Free, $2 parking

The Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program at The Evergreen State College will be showing Beyond the Motor City, a new PBS documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf (King Corn) and produced as part of BLUEPRINT AMERICA, the precedent-setting, multi-platform initiative—produced by Thirteen/WNET and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation—that shines a spotlight on one of our country’s most critical issues: America’s decaying and neglected infrastructure. Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in this country. The film explores Detroit’s historic investments in infrastructure—from early 19th-century canals to the urban freeways that gave The Motor City its name and made America’s transportation system the envy of the world. But it also reveals that over the last 30 years, much of the world has left Detroit—and America—behind, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation.

In a journey that takes us into the neighborhoods of Detroit and then beyond to Spain, California, and our nation’s capital, Beyond the Motor City urges us to ask how a symbol of America’s urban decay might transform itself into a model of urban revitalization. Can we finally push America’s transit system into the 21st century? Film will show 7pm-8:30pm followed by a 30-45 minute film discussion facilitated by MES faculty member, Rob Knapp. For more information, visit the film’s website at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/on-the-road/home/1010/

The open house will include hands-on demos led by students and staff. The event will take place from 1 to 4 pm and from 5 to 6 pm, with a formal dedication from 4 to 5 pm.

All events will take place in the Daniel J. Evans Library. For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/ccam

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway, NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Directions to campus are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

The event will take place in the College Recreation Center (CRC) at The Evergreen State College. The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway, NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Directions to campus are available online.

General Admission

$15.00 advance
$20.00 at door.
Tickets available at www.ticketswest.com

About Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader is one of America's most effective social critics. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Nader’s documented criticism of government and industry has had widespread effect on public awareness and bureaucratic power. He is the "U.S.'s toughest customer" says Time magazine. His inspiration and example have galvanized a whole population of consumer advocates, citizen activists, and public interest lawyers who in turn have established their own organizations throughout the country.

For over four decades, Nader has exposed problems and organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public interest groups to advocate for solutions. His efforts have helped create a framework of laws, regulatory agencies, and federal standards that have improved the quality of life for two generations of Americans. Because of Ralph Nader we drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments.

The crusading attorney first made headlines in 1965 with his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a scathing indictment that lambasted the auto industry for producing unsafe vehicles. The book led to congressional hearings and a series of automobile safety laws passed in 1966, including the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.

This event is sponsored by S & A Productions at The Evergreen State College.

War and the Soul: Transforming Our Communities to Heal Our Veterans

May 6, 8:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1
With Internationally Renowned Expert Edward Tick

Complete News Release

Tatooed Under Fire

May 7, 3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1
With Director Nancy Schiesari

Complete News Release

First Northwest Regional Higher Education Summit on Creating Healing Academic Communities for Veterans

Complete News Backgrounder

Sponsors

Learn More at Our Veteran's Summit Event Web Site

The following results were announced at an awards ceremony on Saturday:

Team winners:

• 1st place (Champions) Olympia High School (Kirsten Allen, Konane Bay, Mira Early, William Hoza, James Malloy, Austin Miner, and Yuchen Mou)
• 2nd place: Stadium High School (Erik Chou, Chris Han, Richard Lee, and Kyle Whitcomb)
• 3rd place: Tumwater High School (Dylan MacKenzie)

Overall individual winners:

• 1st place: Erik Chou, Stadium High School
• 2nd place: William Hoza, Olympia High School
• 3rd place: Austin Miner, Olympia High School

Grade level winners:
(there were no 9th graders who qualified for the state tournament)

10th grade

• 1st place: William Hoza, Olympia High School
• 2nd place: Chris Han, Stadium High School
• 3rd place: Dylan Mackenzie, Tumwater High School

11th grade

• 1st place: Austin Miner, Olympia High School
• 2nd place: Yuchen Mou, Olympia High School
• 3rd place: Kirsten Allen, Olympia High School

12 grade

• 1st place: Erik Chou, Stadium High School
• 2nd place: Richard Lee, Stadium High School
• * There were only two seniors competing

The students who will be competing in Saturday’s State Championships from Olympia High School are Kirsten Allen, Konane Bay, Mira Early, William Hoza, James Malloy, Austin Minor, and Yuchen Mou. Participants from Stadium High School include Chris Amdahl, Eric Chou, Chris Han, Richard Lee, Kyle Whitcomb, and Katie Woodard. Dylan Mackenzie and Leah Dalrymple will represent Tumwater High School.

An awards ceremony will take place in Seminar II Building, B-1105 at 3:30 pm.

“The National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to supporting the creative, collaborative and innovative spirit of contemporary Native artists through the Visual and Expressive Arts Program, which has been graciously sponsored by the Ford Foundation,” said Kevin Gover ( Pawnee ), director of the museum.

Exhibitions and Publications

The Exhibitions and Publications award recipients are The Evergreen State College, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Riverside Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design.

The Evergreen State College, based in Olympia, Wash., has organized the exhibition, “Pieces of Home” featuring the work of Native artists Sarah Sense ( Chitimacha ), Maria Hupfield ( Wasauksing ), Kade Twist ( Cherokee ), Jason Lujan ( Chiricahua Apache ), Kimowan McLain ( Cree ), Nicholas Galanin ( Tlingit ) and Merritt Johnson ( Mohawk/Blackfoot ) who will address the concept of “home.” Is a home a house, a place, a reservation, an ecological region, a spiritual landscape, a gathering of family and friends? What are the dynamics of the very literal legal and geographic boundaries to “home” as on tribal lands, reservations, pueblos and reserves? Whether by choice or by forced relocation, how do people leave one home and make another place home? All of these questions and more will be addressed in this exhibition of mixed media, wallpaper, traditional basket weaving, painting, video and performance and installation art.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, in Santa Fe, N.M., will support the creation of a newly commissioned site-specific installation titled, “It Wasn’t the Dream of Golden Cities” for the museum’s outdoor Allen Houser Art Park. The installation is part of a series of site-specific installations/exhibitions by Kade Twist ( Cherokee ), Steven Yazzie ( Laguna/Navajo ), Raven Chacon ( Navajo ), Nathan Young ( Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee ), known as the artist collective “Postcommodity,” which respond to the 400th-anniversary celebration of the founding of Santa Fe and serve as an intervention on behalf of the indigenous people who are the original stewards of this land.

Riverside Metropolitan Museum in Riverside, Calif., will organize the exhibition “American Indian Women Artists: Beyond Craft,” which will focus on the work of four outstanding contemporary Native women artists: Anita Fields ( Osage ), Teri Greeves ( Kiowa ), Pat Courtney Gold ( Wasco ) and Margaret Wood ( Navajo/Seminole ). This exhibition presents their work and documents its significance within the field of American Indian art. Their art reflects American Indian traditions of women’s work. The exhibition’s goal is to increase the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the work of these artists among new audiences. This will be the first major exhibition on this subject at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum.

Museum of Arts and Design in New York City will produce a catalog to accompany the exhibition “Changing Hands 3: Art Without Reservation,” highlighting 100-150 new works by contemporary Native American artists. The series honors the centuries-old Native heritage of the visual arts as part of everyday life, yet challenges traditional stereotypes by presenting work by Native artists within the context of mainstream contemporary art, not as ethnographic artifacts. “Changing Hands” focuses on established and emerging artists who are interrogating their own traditions to extend artistic and cultural boundaries and, in doing so, formulating a new paradigm for contemporary Native American art theory and practice. The catalog, published by the Museum of Arts and Design, will contain a forward, a lead essay by the curators; essays by noted authorities, artists and critics; interviews with selected artists; and artists’ biographies and images.

Expressive Arts

The Expressive Arts recipients are the Cherokee National Theatre Company, CRIC/Coopdanza,Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu/Patrick Makuakane and Dancing Earth Creations.

Cherokee National Theatre Company’s Rebecca Hobbs ( Cherokee ) and Roy Hamilton ( Cherokee ) will collaborate to compose 14 original songs and music to accompany a musical play, Nanyehi—Beloved Woman of the Cherokee. The premiere of the play is planned for 2011 in the Cherokee Nation, with a goal of creating a traveling production. Nanyehi is the true story of Cherokee Beloved Woman, Nancy Ward. After her husband, Kingfisher, died in battle, she took up his fight and led the Cherokee to victory over the Creek tribe. She became a Warrior Woman, a Beloved Woman and a Cherokee leader. She advocated for peace during the American Revolutionary War era, corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and became a prominent figure in Cherokee history. Hobbs and Hamilton will collaborate to bring this historic and important story to the stage.

CRIC/Coopdanza of the Bronx in New York City is co-producing The Return of the Condor, which is about the life and legacy of Manuel Quintin Lame, an indigenous Colombian rebel from the early 20th century. Coopdanza and Cristina Cortes will collaborate to produce an interdisciplinary performance art and dance-sound-video installation with pre-Columbian elements and contemporary atmosphere, which is referred to as chirimias, or spoken word and vocals in Native, Spanish and English languages.

Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu’s Patrick Makuakane, a choreographer of this hula school based in San Francisco, will support the project Kapalakiko, a new dance theater work featuring specially commissioned chants and songs composed by Puakea Nogelmeier, a pre-eminent linguist and scholar of the Hawaiian language. Kapalakiko is Hawaiian for San Francisco, and the proposed suite of dances will be a celebratory exploration of the long historical connection between Hawai’i and the city. Illustrated through the use of hula, chanting, storytelling and music, this theatrical dance creation is intended to advance the public dialogue about the experiences of America’s indigenous peoples as it illuminates the ties that bind people together in a pluralistic society.

Dancing Earth Creations of Santa Fe, N.M., will develop a site-specific, structured improvisation as the opening ceremony for its large-scale work, Of Bodies Of Elements. “Invokation” will serve to balance professional performance practices with functional ritual that serves as the root of Native dance and lies at the heart of Dancing Earth’s creativity. The collaborative process will involve the choreographer, dancers and a live musical accompanist. Dancer/choreographer Rulan Tangen will work with indigenous collaborators to discover shapes and movement phrases that relate to the performers’ respective tribal heritages while also exploring the interplay between outdoors and indoors.

Awards totaling $78,000 will support artists and cultural collaborations across the country. The museum received 38 applications requesting a total of nearly $500,000. The award recipients were selected by a panel of museum staff and outside experts in the contemporary art field. Visit the museum’s website at www.AmericanIndian.si.edu this summer for information about next year’s award applications and deadlines.

More information is available here: http://www.nmai.si.edu/press/releases/20100421Illumination_Release.pdf

Olympia, Washington, April 22, 2010 – The Evergreen State College is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review. The nationally-known education services company selected Evergreen for inclusion in a unique resource it has created for college applicants - “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.” While inclusion in the guide indicates high standards among all the listed colleges, Evergreen (along with 14 other institutions) also gained the highest possible rating of 99 in this Guide. For more information see: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-20-greencolleges20_ST_N.htm

Developed by The Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, the “Guide to 286 Green Colleges” is the first, free comprehensive guidebook focused solely on institutions of higher education who have demonstrated an above average commitment to sustainability in terms of campus infrastructure, activities and initiatives.

Just in time for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day (April 22nd), the Guide – which is based on a survey of hundreds of colleges nationwide – profiles the nation’s most environmentally-responsible campuses. From solar panel study rooms to the percentage of budget spent on local/organic food, “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges” looks at an institution’s commitment to building certification using USGBC’s LEED green building certification program; environmental literacy programs; formal sustainability committees; use of renewable energy resources; recycling and conservation programs, and much more.

The free Guide can be downloaded at www.princetonreview.com/greenguide and www.usgbc.org/campus.

“Students and their parents are becoming more and more interested in learning about and attending colleges and universities that practice, teach and support environmental responsibility,” said Robert Franek, senior vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review. “According to our recent College Hope & Worries Survey, 64 percent of college applicants and their parents said having information about a school’s commitment to the environment would impact their decision to apply to or attend it. We created this Guide to help them evaluate how institutions like The Evergreen State College focus on environmental responsibility so that they can make informed decisions as they move through the college assessment and application process.”

Evergreen joins the ranks of outstanding universities and colleges nationwide that are leading the “green” movement through their own special programs and initiatives.

“Beyond the cost savings to an institution, even the simplest aspects of a green campus, such as increased use of natural light, have been found to improve student learning and quality of life,” said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair, USGBC. “Green facilities make colleges more attractive to students and can dramatically reduce energy costs. Higher education is a top priority market segment for USGBC because graduates of green colleges become incredible drivers of change when they call for similar surroundings in their jobs and communities.”

The Princeton Review noted that another unique aspect of the Guide is that it provides important information on schools that have dedicated environmental studies curriculums. “By many accounts, there are going to be a lot of job opportunities related to the environment and sustainability,” commented Franek. “For those who are interested in working in this growing sector, the Guide highlights the schools that are doing an especially good job in preparing and placing the next generation of green professionals.”

How the Schools Were Chosen

The Princeton Review chose the 286 schools included in the Guide based on the “Green Rating” scores the schools received in summer 2009 when The Princeton Review published Green Rating scores for 697 schools in its online college profiles and/or annual college guidebooks. The Princeton Review’s “Green Rating” is a numerical score from 60 – 99 that’s based on several data points. The Evergreen State College achieved a score of 99, the highest possible rating. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-20-greencolleges20_ST_N.htm

In 2008, The Princeton Review began collaborating with USGBC to help make the Green Rating survey questions as comprehensive and inclusive as possible. Of 697 schools that The Princeton Review gave “Green Ratings” to in 2009, the 286 schools in the Guide received scores in the 80th or higher percentile. The Princeton Review does not rank the schools in this book hierarchically (1 to 286) or in any of its books based on their “Green Rating” scores.

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for more than 28 years through college and graduate school test preparation and private tutoring. With more than 165 print and digital publications and a free website, www.PrincetonReview.com , the Company provides students and their parents with the resources to research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education. The Princeton Review partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout the U.S. to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning services, helping more students pursue postsecondary education. The Company also owns and operates Penn Foster Education Group, a global leader in online education. Penn Foster provides career-focused degree and vocational programs in the fields of allied health, business, technology, education, and select trades through the Penn Foster High School and Penn Foster Career School (www.pennfoster.edu ), which are headquartered in Scranton, PA.

About the U.S. Green Building Council

The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council is committed to a prosperous and sustainable future for our nation through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings. With a community comprising 80 local affiliates, more than 18,500 member companies and organizations, and more than 155,000 LEED Professional Credential holders, USGBC is the driving force of an industry that is projected to contribute $554 billion in U.S. gross domestic product from 2009 – 2013. USGBC leads a diverse constituency of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofit organizations, elected officials and concerned citizens, teachers and students. Building in the United States are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions, 40 percent of energy consumption, 13 percent of water consumption and 15 percent of GDP per year, making green building a source of significant economic and environmental opportunity. Greater building efficiency can meet 85 percent of future U.S. demand for energy, and a national commitment to green buildings has the potential to generate 2.5 million jobs in America.

Olympia – April 21, the day before Earth Day, Dr. Masaru Emoto of Japan will gather with the public at 12:00 noon at the artesian well on Fourth Avenue, downtown Olympia, for a blessing of the water.

Also on April 21, Dr. Emoto’s seminar ‘Message from Water’ will take place from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at The Evergreen State College Longhouse, followed by a book signing sponsored by The Evergreen State College Book Store. Local elders will share a blessing to honor the waters of the Salish Sea.

Dr. Emoto will also lead a blessing for the healing of Salish Sea waters and water everywhere April 24, 2010, 11 AM to noon, as part of Earth Day events, while all around the Salish Sea people will participate simultaneously beside the sea or their local river.

Dr. Emoto’s bestselling book the Hidden Messages in Water has inspired people worldwide to rediscover their connection to water through viewing the photographs of water crystals exposed to words, photos, nature, and music.

“We are 70-90% water. What does this mean for the way we interact with each other? And what does this mean for the way we treat the rivers, lakes, and Salish Sea around us? Photos of water crystals made before and after blessing ceremonies for rivers and lakes have shown striking results, changing from ugly and ill-formed to beautiful and sparkling,” said Pat Rasmussen, co-coordinator of the events.

Dr. Emoto's visit will begin in Olympia, as part of Earth Day events throughout the region. "We want to generate awareness about the importance of the waters of our region, as well as the complex relationships between humans and the ecological diversity of the Salish Sea," said Rebecca Chamberlain, member of the faculty of the Evergreen State College. Dr. Emoto is traveling to the Northwest on the invitation of the Lummi Nation and local elders, as a way to raise awareness of our relationship to Puget Sound.

Seminars by Dr. Emoto in Seattle at Seattle Unity April 22, Earth Day, and April 23 in Bellingham at Western Washington University Performing Arts Center and other regional events April 21-24 are being organized through the website at http://sacredceremonialsforthesalishsea.wordpress.com.

Veterans have suffered incalculable hardships and losses. College campuses throughout the country have a lot to learn from their experiences and also a lot to give back. Providing meaningful opportunities for higher education is a critical component of treating veterans well after service to their country, and a college degree is a step toward a better livelihood for many returning veterans.

A few facts from recent reports and headlines describe the current environment for veterans:

• More than one fifth of young war veterans are unemployed. Specifically the jobless rate for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan wars ages 18 to 24 was 21.1 percent according to a recent report from the Department of Labor. In comparison, the rate for non-veterans in same age group was 16.6 percent. These rates for young veterans were significantly higher than the unemployment rate of young veterans in that age group in 2008 (14.1 percent). For veterans of all ages returning from the recent wars, the unemployment rate in 2009 was 10.2 percent. [1]
• Historically, younger veterans have had more difficulty than their older counterparts in finding a job. Younger veterans often have less training and job experience. Some joined the military right out of high school. [2] Higher Education provides an opportunity to address this situation.
• As of last year, 1.9 million veterans had deployed for the Iraq or Afghan wars since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [3] According to information provided by the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the FY2010 defense budget authorizes more than 2.3 million service members.
• One in three Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, a traumatic brain injury or some combination of the all three, according to a Rand Corporation study of 2008. [4] This indicates a critical need for colleges to prepare for the needs of incoming veterans.
• According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs June 2009 State Summary, there are more than 12,400 Washington veterans using GI Bill education benefits and more than 540,000 nationally. [5] Overall 70 percent of veteran students use education benefits according to information provided by Servicemembers Opportunities Colleges of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
• The new GI Bill has increased the number of veterans and active duty service members who attend four year institutions and enroll full time. According to the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) thousands of returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are re-entering society as college and university students. According the HECB, the new college student pool is "perhaps the greatest influx of veterans since the Vietnam War." [6]

Policy and Practice Innovations at Evergreen

In an effort to fully understand the challenges and opportunities associated with increasing populations of veterans entering college, The Evergreen State College is organizing the first ever regional higher education summit on veteran’s needs, experiences and retention. War and the Soul: Creating Healing Academic Communities for Our Nation’s Veterans is a training and networking conference for those in the higher education and military communities, featuring internationally renowned experts Edward Tick and Nancy Schiesari.

At the event, which takes place May 6 and 7, participants will hear from Dr. Edward Tick, consultant, psychotherapist, and educator with three decades experience working with veterans. They will also work with Nancy Schiesari and discuss her film Tattooed Under Fire, a portrait of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Participants will also hear from student veterans about their experiences, explore strategies to better serve student veterans, exchange best practices with colleagues from across the region and share knowledge about resources available to students and institutions.

This event is part of Evergreen’s strategy to increase awareness and demonstrate support for veterans through events and policy innovations. The college has also launched a Veterans Support Working Group of students, staff and faculty, and a Student Veteran Organization. Evergreen–with a student population approaching 4,900–also recognizes its more than 100 veterans and 60 veteran dependents among its students, as well as the more than 60 veterans employed as faculty and staff. Annual events include a Fall Quarter Veterans Reception in which a Veterans Medallion is presented to all identified incoming veterans in recognition of their service, a tradition of celebration of Veterans Day for the past 15 years, and Memorial Day recognition efforts including distribution of some 2,000 Memorial Day poppies among a college population of some 5,600 (including students, faculty and staff.)

Evergreen also aims to attract veterans and their dependents through outreach and tuition waivers year round for qualifying veterans and veterans’ dependents. Evergreen is a member of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges and provides academic credit for military experience and training, as well as an option to earn credit while deployed through individual learning contracts. Approximately 65 dependents are receiving the 100% tuition waiver and approximately 50 veterans are receiving 50% tuition waivers.

"We are giving increased attention to serving veterans well," says Art Costantino, vice president for student affairs at Evergreen. "We recognize that we are in one of the areas of the country that will experience an increase in veterans, we recognize what veterans provide for our campus, and we have a sense of responsibility to serve those who have served us."

The sponsors for War and the Soul: Creating Healing Academic Communities for Our Nation’s Veterans include The Evergreen State College Student Veterans Organization, Glidden Paint, NASPA Region V, The Evergreen State College President's Diversity Fund, Regional Education and Training Center, Squaxin Island Tribe, The Olympian, and the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.

Additional resources:

• More on the War and the Soul: Creating Healing Academic Communities for Our Nation’s Veterans:
  www.evergreen.edu/events/veteranssummit/home.htm
• Office of Veterans Affairs at Evergreen:
  www.evergreen.edu/veterans/officeofva.htm

Free, public event takes place at 8 pm on May 6 at The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 1

Dr. Edward Tick will discuss the importance of restoring the necessary, proper and reciprocal relationship between society and its warriors. He will describe how warriors willingly go into harm’s way in order to protect the rest of us and our responsibilities in regard to their return, recovery and restoration to full functioning and life. Dr. Tick will also offer strategies on how communities can provide what our veterans need in order to restore the broken relationship between our society and its warriors and begin to address the incalculable losses that result from war.

Admission to this event is free. Parking is $2.00. The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway, NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Directions to campus are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

The event is presented in conjunction with two other events at Evergreen, a public showing of "Tattooed Under Fire" with Director Nancy Schiesari, on May 7, at 3:30 p.m. at The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 1. The college is also hosting a Veterans Summit for higher education professionals working with veterans and military communities on May 6 and May 7. More information on the conference for higher education professionals and the public events is available at www.evergreen.edu.

Thanks to our generous sponsors: The Evergreen State College Student Veterans Organization, Glidden Paint, NASPA Region V, The Evergreen State College President's Diversity Fund, Regional Education and Training Center, Squaxin Island Tribe, The Olympian, and the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.

About Edward Tick

Dr. Edward Tick is a transformational healer. He is also a mythologist, psychotherapist, poet, writer, educator, and overseas journey guide. He holds an M.A. in psychology from Goddard College and a Ph.D. in Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Tick has held positions with the American Academy of Psychotherapists and the American Holistic Medical Association. He is also an ordained interfaith minister. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 30 years, Tick specializes in work with survivors of trauma and violence — particularly combat war veterans, sexual and substance abuse victims, those with severe mental and emotional disorders, and those in need of deeply rooted psychological and spiritual healing. Tick applies his innovative model of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatment based on worldwide research on spirituality, mythology and war/the warrior archetypes in order to strengthen identities.

Tick is a nationally recognized expert on the psychological, spiritual, historical and cultural aspects of war, the Vietnam Era, and PTSD. He began treating Vietnam veterans in psychotherapy in 1979 before PTSD was a diagnostic category. Since that time, he has treated veterans and survivors of WWII, the Holocaust, Korea, the Gulf War, Central American conflicts, Lebanon, the Balkan wars, the Irish civil and religious wars, the Greek Civil War, the Middle East conflicts, and the Iraq War, among others. He has also served as a consultant to community, church and veterans organizations on the treatment of veterans and the training of staff for such work. He is the co-founder of the Sanctuary International Friendship Foundation, a non-profit agency that directs and raises funds for projects to help heal war-torn Viet Nam. As an expert in both the classical Greek and Native American traditions, Tick has written a book entitled, The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine (Quest Books 2001). Tick is also the author of War and the Soul, and The Golden Tortoise: Viet Nam Journeys.

Tattooed Under Fire is a unique, character-driven portrait of Iraq-bound and returning US soldiers as they go under the tattoo needle: openly professing their pride, sharing their secrets and confessing their fears. The tattoos cross lines of gender, class, and political affinity revealing the inner lives of young men and women as they live through the horrors of the Iraq war.

The film will be shown at The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 1 on May 7 at 3:30 pm. The film showing will be followed by conversation with Director Nancy Schiesari.

Watch the trailer: Tattooed Under Fire

Admission to this event is free. Parking is $2.00. The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway, NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Directions to campus are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

The event is presented in conjunction with two other events at Evergreen. On May 6 at 8 pm in Lecture Hall 3, Evergreen welcomes internationally renowned expert Edward Tick for a free, public presentation War and the Soul: Transforming Our Communities to Heal Our Veterans.

The college is also hosting a Veterans Summit for higher education professionals working with veterans and military communities.

More information on the conference for higher education professionals and the public events is available at www.evergreen.edu.

Tattooed Under Fire is sponsored by The Evergreen State College Student Veterans Organization and Evergreen’s President’s Diversity Fund.

About Nancy Schiesari:

Nancy Schiesari was trained as a cinematographer in London, and for over 20 years, she’s been a director and producer on both broadcast documentaries and award winning children’s videos. Her full-length documentary Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer aired on PBS via Independent Lens, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and is currently airing on TVOntario. She directed History Man, a half-hour profile on Martin Scorsese that aired on BBC 4 in 2003. She was nominated for a 2002 Television Emmy for outstanding cinematography on The Human Face, produced by John Cleese. Among her work as cinematographer is Barbara Sonneborn’s Academy Award nominated documentary, Regret to Inform.

Tattooed Under Fire was named among the top 100 best TV programs in 2009 by TV.com. Schiesari is currently in post-production on Behind the Lines: the OSS and the Italian Resistance in WWII. In addition to making films, Schiesari teaches filmmaking and cinematography at the University of Texas at Austin where she has been a professor for twelve years.

• Evergreen Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Rachel Carson Forum
• Evergreen Master of Environmental Studies Program Celebrates 25th Year
• Environmental Educator & Advocate Estella Leopold speaks on "Becoming a Conservationist"

Olympia, WA – The Graduate Association for Environmental Action at The Evergreen State College is celebrating its 20th Anniversary of the Rachel Carson Forum with free workshops and keynote speech dedicated to environmental conservation and activism on April 10th, 2010 from 9am – Noon at The Evergreen State College Longhouse.

The first part of the morning, 9am – 11am, will be devoted to break-out sessions that host a range of facilitators presenting demonstrations on environmental issues. Event participants are able to choose three of the five breakout sessions that include:

• "Being Frank" about the Environment, presented by Billy Frank of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
• Sparking Political Progress, presented by Fuse Washington
• Ethnobotanical Garden Walk, presented by Teaching Gardens
• Homemade Bike Panniers, presented by the Evergreen State College Bike Shop
• DIY Composting, presented by the Evergreen Organic Farm

The finale of the event will be a keynote speech entitled "Becoming a Conservationist" by long time environmental educator and advocate, Estella Leopold. Her families’ commitment to the environment starting with her father, Aldo Leopold, and onto herself and her other siblings has been a dramatic influence to environmental conservation throughout the United States.

Further information about the Rachel Carson Forum can be obtained from www.evergreen.edu/mes or by calling Melanie Kincaid at 360-867-5940 or email.

Nalini M. Nadkarni was recently named recipient of the prestigious 2010 National Science Board (NSB) Public Service Award as an individual who has made significant contributions in public understanding of science in the United States.

"We are pleased to recognize Nalini for her outstanding and truly unique achievements in bringing her research to the public," said Steven Beering, NSB Chairman. "Not only has she been a leader in the forest canopy research field, but she has actively engaged in forging connections with the general public and involving non-traditional audiences in scientific research."

The NSB Public Service Award honors individuals and groups that have made substantial contributions to increasing public understanding of science and engineering in the United States. These contributions may be from a wide variety of areas including mass media, education and/or training programs, entertainment, and non-profit and for-profit corporations.

"I am honored by the recognition provided by the National Science Board," said Nadkarni. "I believe that the most critical problems facing society today are the widening gaps between humans and nature, and between science and society. Scientific researchers can – and should – play a role in the communication of science far beyond academia because of their passion and their knowledge of scientific topics."

Nadkarni's work epitomizes a goal of the National Science Foundation, which is to support cutting edge research that has broader impacts on society. She says, "Communication with colleagues is a critical part of the scientific process. My work expands the definition of ‘colleague’ to rap singers, modern dancers, and incarcerated people, who in turn provide fresh insights into the workings of nature. My vision is to turn public outreach by academics from burden to benefit."

In January 2010, she was awarded a grant from the Ecosystems Program at NSF to initiate her "Research Ambassador Program", which will support her efforts to recruit and train other academic scientists to carry out non-traditional science outreach.

Nadkarni has long made communication with the public an integral part of her work. In 1994, she co-founded The International Canopy Network, a non-profit organization that fosters communication among researchers, educators, and conservationists. Her work consistently crosses disciplines and overcomes traditional boundaries, particularly by inviting artists to help distill and disseminate her work. In recent years, Nadkarni invited a hip hop singer and at-risk middle school students to her forest sites to write their own rap songs about nature, and collaborated with a modern dance company to create a dance production about rainforest conservation. She has appeared in numerous television documentaries, and was featured as a canopy scientist in a 2001 Emmy-award-winning National Geographic television documentary on tropical forest canopies.

Nadkarni’s work engages people with limited access to science education, including people in assisted living centers, military barracks, hospitals, and prisons. Her collaborative "Sustainable Prisons Project" with the Washington State Department of Corrections brings nature, science, and sustainability projects to incarcerated men and women. Inmates directly participate in conservation projects, including cultivation of threatened mosses, captive rearing of endangered Oregon Spotted Frogs, growing prairie plants for restoration, and raising rare butterflies – all behind prison walls.

Her colleagues are impressed with Nadkarni’s accomplishments. "Few people in the world can boast both the scientific pedigree and the commitment to public service of Nalini Nadkarni," said Les Purce, President of The Evergreen State College. "Her desire to engage non-traditional audiences in scientific inquiry has taken her to prisons and churches, boardrooms and bookstores, public television programs and music recording studios, nail salons and tattoo parlors."

Nadkarni is a Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, WA, where she teaches environmental studies. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, where she received her doctorate in 1983. Her research is on the ecology of tropical and temperate forest canopies, focusing on the roles that canopy-dwelling plants play in whole forests. Her research in Washington and in Monteverde, Costa Rica is supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

Past individual recipients of the NSB Public Service Award include: Ira Flatow, Alan Alda, Bill Nye the Science Guy®; and Jane Goodall.

Nadkarni will receive the NSB Public Service Award at the National Science Board Annual Awards Dinner at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010. Three additional award recipients will also be honored that evening: Bruce Alberts of the University of California, San Francisco, with the Vannevar Bush Award; The Expanding Your Horizons Network with the group NSB Public Service Award; and Subhash Khot of New York University with the Alan T. Waterman Award.

About the National Science Board

The NSB is the 25-member policymaking body for the National Science Foundation and advisory body to the President and Congress on science and engineering issues. Drawn primarily from universities and industry, and representing a variety of science and engineering disciplines and geographic areas, NSB members are selected for their eminence in research, education, or public service, and records of distinguished service. The NSB has 24 members who serve six-year terms. The 25th member is the NSF Director, an ex officio member of the NSB. More information is available at: www.nsf.gov/nsb.

Media Contacts

Lisa-Joy Zgorski, NSF
(703) 292-8311

Jason Wettstein, The Evergreen State College
(360) 867-5213

Program Contacts

Jennifer Richards, NSF
(703) 292-4521

Related Websites

• National Science Board: www.nsf.gov/nsb
• National Science Board Public Service Award: http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/awards/public.jsp
• Nalini Nadkarni: http://academic.evergreen.edu/n/nadkarnn/

The report includes strategies to increase Native American participation, access and success in higher education settings as well as 12 recommendations for reform and policy improvements. The report also includes profiles of 44 colleges and universities. The profiles describe Native American/Alaska Native faculty, staff, and students; academic programs and courses; public service programs; and student support services focusing on Native Americans.

The 138 page report was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education.

The full document can be found here: http://www.evergreen.edu/nativeprograms/reports/pathways/docs/pathwaysreport.pdf

The Evergreen State College will host the State Championship Math Meet on April 24, 2010. Schools wishing to participate in the State Championship Math Meet can get information on how to qualify for the competition at www.mathleague.org. The Evergreen State College Math Meet and the State Championship Math Meet are part of nation-wide math competitions sponsored by mathleague.org.

Here are the complete results:

Winning Teams

• 1st place: Stadium HS
• 2nd place: Olympia HS
• 3rd place: Tumwater HS

Winning Individuals- Overall

• 1st place: Eric Chou, Stadium HS
• 2nd place: Leah Dalrymple, Tumwater HS
• 3rd place: Chris Han, Stadium HS

Winning Individuals - By Grade Level

9th Grade:

• 1st place: Juliana Trujillo, Lakes HS
• 2nd place: Meghan Woodrum, Lakes HS
• 3rd place: Jamar Williams, Lakes HS

10th Grade:

• 1st place: Chris Han, Stadium HS
• 2nd place: Willian Hoza, Olympia HS
• 3rd place: Dylan Mackenzie, Tumwater HS

11th Grade:

• 1st place: Kirsten Allen, Olympia HS
• 2nd place: Austin Minor, Olympia HS
• 3rd place: Kyle Whitcomb, Stadium HS

12th Grade:

• 1st place: Eric Chou, Stadium HS
• 2nd place: Leah Dalrymple, Tumwater HS
• 3rd place: Richard Lee, Stadium HS

Participants

• Lakes HS
• Olympia HS
• Stadium HS
• Tumwater HS

31 students total

Exoneree Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, co-authors of the New York Times Bestseller, PICKING COTTON: OUR MEMOIR OF INJUSTICE AND REDEMPTION, will speak twice in Tacoma on Thursday, March 4th at 10 a.m. & 6 p.m. at The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus, 1210 – 6th Ave. Both events are free and open to the public.

In 1984, Thompson-Cannino was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment. She escaped and later identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. He was convicted of the crime. But after 11 years in prison, a DNA test exonerated him.

Thompson-Cannino and Cotton met two years later, became friends and worked together to write a book about their experiences, “Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption.” They now travel the country talking with local communities about ways citizens, police and prosecutors can work together to prevent erroneous criminal convictions.

The Tacoma events are part of the 2010 Norm Maleng Integrity of Justice Speakers Series. Co-sponsors include The Integrity of Justice Project, The Evergreen State College - Tacoma Campus, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle University School of Law, University of Washington - Tacoma Diversity Resource Center, University of Washington - Tacoma Social Work Program/Minor in Criminal Justice, University of Puget Sound African American Studies Program, Pierce College, Bates Technical College, Tacoma Community College, the Black Collective, the Tacoma Ministerial Alliance, The Conversation, Tacoma Urban League, and Catholic Community Services.

The Integrity of Justice Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public policy and community education program working in partnership with Washington’s law schools to identify and promote best practices that can help prevent erroneous criminal convictions. For more information: http://www.integrityofjustice.org.

An advocate for tribal rights and environmental cause for fifteen years, Works served at the Attorney General for the Hualapai Tribe on the edge of the Grand Canyon, and as the Attorney General for the Yavapai-Apache Nation, near Sedona, Arizona. In this capacity she managed multi-million dollar governmental budgets and programs, and worked extensively with outdoor recreation programs in and around the Grand Canyon. She also assisted the non-profit law firm, Earthjustice, on efforts to diversify the environmental movement.

As a member of the Diversity Committee for the Women's Sports Foundation, Works looks for opportunities to expand opportunities for women and girls in sports, with a special emphasis on increasing opportunities in rural locations and throughout Indian Country.

Prior to her legal career, Works won numerous awards as an educator, teaching courses in philosophy, political theory, metaphysics, logic, and business ethics.

Works was the North Central Washington Scoring Champion as a high school basketball player in Okanogan, Washington, setting over a dozen school and conference records in the Caribou Trail League. She went on to play NCAA Division I basketball at the University of Idaho, where she graduated, with honors, in 1992 with degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. Works received her Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1995. During her legal career, Works assisted with the representation of the Arizona Cardinals, the Phoenix Suns, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. She also represented many Native artists and performers, and assisted with the development and operation of numerous entertainment venues.

Works’ mother Suzanne (Works) Craig is an Evergreen Graduate who currently lives in Okanogan. Works will begin work at Evergreen on March 16.

The lecture series “Ecovention: Urban Horticulture and Ecological Restoration” brings to campus innovative thinkers seeking to address various environmental challenges through creative approaches in horticulture, landscape architecture, ecological restoration, forestry and green commerce. The final presentation on March 10th will focus on student recommendations for Ecoventions on campus and beyond.

Mr. Cereghino is a restoration ecologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Restoration Center, the only office within NOAA solely devoted to restoring the nation’s coastal, marine, and migratory fish habitats. The Restoration Center works with a wide array of partners to restore mangrove, salt marsh, seagrass, oyster, coral reef, kelp forest, and river habitats.

Ecovention events are free and open to the public. Parking is $2. For more information on this lecture series go to www.evergreen.edu/teachinggardens and click on events or contact Frederica Bowcutt.

2008 Green Party Presidential Candidate, first African-American woman to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives, and relentless activist for social justice. Cynthia McKinney has been active in the Free Gaza Movement (which led to her being attacked and imprisoned by Israel) and was the subject of the documentary American Blackout, on voter disenfranchisement. She was recently awarded the Peace Through Conscience Award by the Munich American Peace Committee. 4:30 pm at The Evergreen State College’s Longhouse. It’s FREE for ALL students, staff, and faculty of any high school, college, or university (just bring school ID), and just $5 for anyone else. Sponsors: Black Student Union and the Mideast Solidarity Project

Howard Zinn, the author of "A People's History of the United States" and several other books has died. The Boston Herald reports he suffered a heart attack in Santa Monica, California. Zinn was 87.

He was a longtime professor at Boston University. He published book on the Vietnam War , as well as other books on history and American society. But it was his 1980 book "A People's History of the United States" and its follow-up, "Voices of a People's History of the United States," that made him required reading.

For the Evergreen community who purchased tickets for the scheduled February 6th event at Evergreen. The refund process fairly simple.

If you purchased a ticket at the Evergreen Bookstore, Rainy Day Records, Ted Brown Music Company, Wall of Sound or any QFC, the refunds are processed at the point of purchase. The ticket must be returned to receive the a refund.

If you purchased a ticket by phone or online at TicketsWest.com, please call TicketsWest directly at (800) 992-8499 to process your refund.

All events begin at 8 p.m. and are free to the public. Parking is $2.

All Performances will take place at The Evergreen State College Experimental Theater in the Communications Building, 2700 Evergreen Parkway, Olympia.

Shipwrecks, disguise, love, revelry, music, arrogance, sexual confusion, mistaken identity, and pride; and that's just Act I. Although the land of Illyria is saturated in love, it is that kind of love that causes more injuries than kindnesses. When Viola washes ashore off the coast of Illyria and takes on the disguise of a man she is herself caught in a sticky love triangle. Then the real party begins. Illyria is turned into a topsy-turvy free for all, but don't worry, Shakespeare's darkest comedy ends well... for almost everyone.

For directions to campus
http://www.evergreen.edu/tour

To learn more about the performance
http://academic.evergreen.edu/groups/shakespeare/

Visit the Facebook event page

Free and public event at The Evergreen State College, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center on Thursday, February 4, 7 pm
Parking: $2

Evergreen Gallery was among 183 college and university art museums across the United States that each received a gift of 150 Warhol photographs through the Warhol Foundation’s Photographic Legacy Program. By donating a significant number of Warhol photographs to each institution, the Legacy Program provides greater access to Warhol’s artwork and process, and enables a wide range of people from communities across the country to view and study this important yet relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work.

The Evergreen State College has nurtured artistic photographic exploration since its founding in 1967. The 103 Polaroid and 50 black and white photographs by Warhol join more than fifty other photographs that form the heart of Evergreen’s art collection. The collection includes photographs by Diane Arbus, Marsha Burns, Joanne Callis, John Divola, Judy Dater, Paul Caponigro, Ralph Gibson, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Richard Misrach, Jerry Uelsmann, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, and others. Some of these photographs were featured in Evergreen Gallery’s October exhibition, Landscape Visions, and two of the photographs by Misrach were on loan to the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle a year ago, for their exhibition Richard Misrach: On the Beach. The Warhol photographs will be displayed in Evergreen Gallery in future exhibitions.

Other regional institutions that received the donation include Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum; Montana State University’s Northcutt Steele Gallery; Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College; Southern Oregon University’s Schneider Museum of Art; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon; the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington; and Washington State University’s Museum of Art.

First year and Senior Evergreen students surveyed by NSSE scored the college strongly on the NSSE category Academic Challenge. They indicated that they spend more time preparing for class, engaging in coursework that requires synthesizing, analyzing, and making judgments about the value of information. They also reported reading more assigned texts and writing more short papers.

Compared with other first-year and senior-class students who reported to NSSE, Evergreen respondents indicated that they more frequently gave class presentations and contributed to discussions in class. They also indicated that they more often worked with other students on projects during class and outside of class, as well as discussed ideas from reading and classes with others outside of class- all measures of Active and Collaborative Learning. First year students and seniors reported higher levels of Active and Collaborative learning on all measures in this category, as compared to peers, except on the measure of tutoring other students.

In terms of Student-Faculty Interaction, Evergreen students more often discussed ideas from class with faculty members outside of class and received prompt feedback on academic performance. Evergreen first-year students and seniors were significantly more likely to have participated in several enriching educational experiences than students at other colleges and universities, engaging in more independent study and more frequent conversations with students who are different from themselves in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, or values.

While the report presented predominately favorable news for Evergreen, Laura Coghlan, Director of Institutional Research notes that student engagement is a continuous process and work remains. According to Coghlan, the report noted that Evergreen first year students are less likely to feel the campus environment helps them cope with their non-academic responsibilities or provides the support they need to thrive socially. Also, Evergreen seniors see quality of relationships as something in need of improvement. "While the good news reinforces that we are meeting our intention of engaging students in an innovative and challenging learning environment," says Coghlan, "we are also reflecting on the implications of lower than average areas and striving to improve them." 

Evergreen participates in the National Survey of Student Engagement as part of its ongoing institutional assessment plan. Six hundred and sixteen four-year U.S. colleges and universities participated in the survey. The National Survey of Student Engagement works on the premise of providing a more complex view of quality, with recognition that holistic assessments of many disaggregated factors provide for more accurate and useful comparisons on issues of concern for student learning than traditional ranking systems.

While Evergreen also does well in traditional regional and national rankings, Evergreen's regular participation in the National Survey of Student Engagement provides additional national context and multi-year trend data through which to examine educational practices, emphases, and challenges. The survey had high participation at Evergreen with a response rate near 25 percent of all first year students and 22 percent of all seniors enrolled.

For more information on NSSE results and trends, visit http://www.evergreen.edu/institutionalresearch/nsse.htm

Upcoming Olympia campus workshops

• Dec. 7
• Jan. 25th
• Feb. 10
• Feb 22nd
• March 10th

Olympia campus at 3 pm in Seminar 2-E 3123.

Off campus workshops

Dec. 9 and Jan. 20th at 6 pm at the Olympia Timberland Regional Library.

Tacoma campus workshop

The quarterly workshop at the Evergreen Tacoma campus, 1210 6th Avenue, will take place Jan. 26th from 1:50-3 pm.

The Evergreen State College seeks compassionate, critical thinkers who reflect our culturally diverse Washington communities in order to support the learning of children and youth in our public schools. We offer an excellent two-year program that leads to an initial teaching certificate and master’s degree. Our program prepares teachers for elementary, middle school or high school teaching. We welcome applicants with all subject area backgrounds who are committed to creating respectful, engaging multi-cultural classrooms and especially invite students with interests in teaching math, science or children with special needs or limited English proficiency.

Local districts are eager to hire our graduates because of their excellent preparation, commitment to teaching, and ability to work effectively with diverse learners

To request a catalog or learn more about the program visit the MiT website at www.evergreen.edu/mit. Specific questions can be addressed to MiT Associate Director Maggie Foran at (360) 867-6559.

Biologists from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), Woodland Park Zoo, Oregon Zoo, and the U.S. Army released the frogs this fall into Dailman Lake on the Fort Lewis Military Reservation in Pierce County in a collaborative effort to return the endangered frog to a portion of its historic habitat.

The frogs, most weighing less than two ounces, were collected as fertilized eggs last spring, and “head-started” in captivity at the zoos and the Cedar Creek Corrections Center near Olympia to improve their chance of survival once they return to the wild.

The frog release is the second in a five-year collaborative effort led by WDFW to establish a self-sustaining population on the Fort Lewis site. Approximately 600 frogs reared at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park and Oregon Zoo were released at the same location last year.

This year, two Cedar Creek inmates raised a number of the young frogs through the Sustainable Prisons Project, a partnership between The Evergreen State College and the Washington State Department of Corrections that allows incarcerated men and women to participate in science-based conservation projects.

The Dailman Lake area was chosen for the reintroduction because it contains diverse wetlands that can sustain a frog population and is largely protected from human activity, said Jim Lynch, Fort Lewis wildlife biologist.

All of the frogs released last year appear to have survived predators.

“We were encouraged with these findings, but direct observation was limited because the frogs are very effective at concealing themselves,” Lynch said.

This year, to improve data collection, about a quarter of the released frogs will be equipped with a tiny microchip that can be scanned by a wand reader.

In 2010, biologists will begin looking for egg masses to determine if the frogs have established breeding populations.

The Oregon spotted frog historically ranged from southwestern British Columbia to northeastern California, but is now known only in Klicikitat and Thurston counties in Washington. Loss of habitat, predation by non-native species such as the American bullfrog and disease have decimated its numbers, which prompted its listing as a Washington state endangered species in 1997.

“Frogs worldwide are known as sentinel species that play an important role in ecosystems,” said Marc Hayes, senior research scientist and project lead for WDFW. “When they disappear from their habitat, these ecosystems can be disrupted.”

The U.S. Department of the Interior recently awarded WDFW a grant to coordinate range-wide recovery projects for the Oregon spotted frog and associated species. A portion of the grant supports the Fort Lewis project.

“Restoring native wetland species such as the Oregon spotted frog and protecting habitat over broad areas are examples of an ecosystem approach that WDFW and partners are taking to help restore the state’s biodiversity,” said Phil Anderson, WDFW director.

Partners involved in the reintroduction program at Fort Lewis include WDFW, Fort Lewis Military Reservation, Woodland Park Zoo, Oregon Zoo, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Washington State Department of Transportation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Evergreen State College, Washington State Department of Corrections, Port Blakely Tree Farms, Washington Department of Natural Resources, NW Zoo & Aquarium Alliance, U.S Geological Survey, Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Centre and The Nature Conservancy.

• 12:00pm – 6:00pm Cooking
• 7:00pm – 8:30 Dinner

The First Christian Church
701 Franklin Street
Olympia, WA 98501

Meet at the Evergreen bus loop at 11:30 am and we’ll take the bus down together!

For more information or to pre-register call (360) 867-6137 or email Hilary.

On Tuesday November 24th at Noon, Amy Goodman, award-winning investigative journalist and host of Pacifica's "Democracy Now" will appear at The Evergreen State College Longhouse in a benefit for KAOS-FM Olympia Community Radio and Thurston Community Television. The event is in support of her new book "Breaking the Sound Barrier." The book will be available at the event. Seating is limited; tickets are available at the door the day of show or online at buyolympia.com.

About Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 750 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press.

Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media."

Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers. She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.

Her daily reporting and groundbreaking work from Nigeria and East Timor has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored.

About the Book

Breaking the Sound Barrier: By Amy Goodman, Edited by Denis Moynihan, Foreword by Bill Moyers

Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the "experts" who, in Goodman's words,"know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong," this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear.

About KAOS

Licensed to the Evergreen State College, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio has been the South Sound's only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-seven year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County's largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

About TCTV

Thurston Community Television is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation/membership organization that provides public, educational, and government access television in greater Thurston County, Washington. TCTV provides access channel management, training and production support to local residents, groups, government agencies and educational institutions. TCTV's programming is seen on access channels on the Comcast cable system in Thurston County. Membership is open to any Thurston County resident or non-profit organization located in Thurston County. TCTV believes that community access media is an appropriate and powerful vehicle for promoting greater awareness and understanding of the larger community and the diversity of its people. To that end, TCTV provides communications resources to build a stronger community.

About the Longhouse

The Longhouse exists to provide service and hospitality to students, the college, and surrounding Native communities. With a design based in the Northwest Indigenous Nations' philosophy of hospitality, its primary functions are to provide a gathering place for hosting cultural ceremonies, classes, conferences, performances, art exhibits and community events. The Longhouse provides the opportunity to build a bridge of understanding between the regions' tribes and visitors of all cultures. The public service mission of the Longhouse is to promote indigenous arts and cultures through education, cultural preservation, and economic development.

Contacts

John Ford
KAOS
360-867-6894
fordj@evergreen.edu

Deb Vinsel
TCTV
360-956-3100
dvinsel@tctv.net

A collaborative effort between the college, regional artists, chefs and organizations committed to creating opportunities for future generations of community leaders, the first annual Art of Living brunch and art auction welcomed some 150 attendees. Artwork included creations by Nikki McClure, Cappy Thompson, Perri Lynch, Tom Anderson, Tina Hoggatt and other established and emerging artists.

Proceeds from the event directly benefit student scholarships and the newly renovated Evergreen Gallery. Sponsors included Heritage Bank, The Evergreen State College Alumni Board of Directors, Capital Medical Center, Platform Gallery, Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters, and The Evergreen State College Organic Farm.

The event took place October 11, 2009 and the college intends to continue hosting the event in the future as a means to help support student scholarships.

Gill will speak on Veterans Day, November 11 from 10:30 a.m. to Noon

Olympia, WA-- Steve Gill is a Program Manager for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs who is responsible for the Veterans Estate Management Program in Olympia and the Transitioning Warrior Program in cooperation with the Warrior Transition Battalion and the Solider and Family Assistance Center on Fort Lewis.

As a leader in the Transitioning Warrior Program, Gill helps to heighten awareness and increase soldiers’ capabilities to manage combat and operational stress by providing recent veterans with education, programs and tools that help them with both mental and logistical transitions out of places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gill served honorably in the U.S. Army from 1994 to 1998 as a Human Resources Specialist at Fort Lewis, WA and Seoul, Korea. He is an accredited Veterans Service Organization Representative with the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs and is certified as a Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resources Management.

Gill has received the Washington Governor’s Award for Customer Service as a member of the Veteran’s Benefit Enhancement Team and he is a member of The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Gill received his undergraduate degree and Master of Public Administration from The Evergreen State College.

The event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505. Directions are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

Featuring Keynote Speaker Mike Gregoire, Washington’s First Gentleman and U.S. Army Veteran

• Thursday, November 5, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
• The Evergreen Longhouse, Room 1001
• 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505

We will recognize Evergreen’s newly admitted veterans with a ceremonial presentation of the challenge coin medallion.

Presented by the Veterans of Evergreen Transition and Success Team.

More on Mike Gregoire:

Mike Gregoire’s daughters will tell you he is the calm, easy-going history buff who spent countless hours carting them from soccer practice to piano lessons, from ballet to church groups. He is the best backpacking companion, one patient gardener and the ultimate dessert chef. Around the Gregoire dinner table, he is the one who will goad others into a heated debate and then recline in his chair calmly taking in the scene.

Mike Gregoire was born and reared in Everett, Washington. His mom taught elementary school in the Everett school district for 35 years. His father worked as a private contractor and union carpenter. A graduate of Everett High School 40 years ago, Mike remains connected to many of his high school friends — he and his football buddies regularly get together to practice the art of poker.

Mike graduated from the University of Washington with a history degree in 1968. While student teaching at a Seattle high school his final year, he considered pursuing a career as a teacher. During finals week of his senior year, Mike received his draft notice. While his classmates celebrated their graduation day, Mike began basic training at Fort Lewis.

After completing field artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Mike was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the air defense artillery corps. He then served a tour of duty as a platoon leader and convoy commander with the “Delta Express” in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

Upon returning to Washington, Mike met Chris in September 1971, when they were both working for the Department of Social and Health Services. For their first date, Mike packed a picnic lunch and took Chris on a hike. After several hours of wandering, Chris realized they were lost, and started wondering if Mike’s navigational skills had been left behind in the Delta. Three years later, however, Mike navigated Chris perfectly down the wedding aisle. He and Chris have two adult daughters: Courtney, an attorney, and Michelle, a recent college graduate. For the next 30 years, Mike worked as a health care investigator for the state of Washington. Retiring in July 2003 certainly hasn’t slowed him down. He harvests a bumper crop of tomatoes, apples and pears; stays active in St. Michael’s Parish; and fits in an occasional racquetball game.

Mike’s service in the military spurred a lifelong commitment to veterans’ affairs. He is particularly concerned about the effects of Agent Orange and veterans’ mental health issues. He is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the American Legion and the Vietnam Veterans of America. As Washington’s First Gentleman, or “First Mike” as he prefers to be called, he tours the state to meet with veterans and active military personnel. He lobbies the Governor over dinner on veterans’ issues and is committed to making sure our state lives up to its commitments to our servicemen and servicewomen.

Mike Gregoire is an advocate for children’s and family literacy. As a parent, Mike recognizes the importance of reading with children. He also knows that strong reading skills prepare young people for academic success and a lifelong love of learning. Mike is traveling across the state to visit schools and libraries. He reads to elementary school students and thanks teachers, principals and librarians for their good work. He has visited at least one elementary school in each of the state’s 39 counties.

Evergreen Noted Among Colleges that Demonstrate High Levels of Commitment to Public Service as an Academic Aim and Educational Approach

Olympia, WA -- Washington Campus Compact and the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium released data today on a faculty engagement survey of the Western Region.

The first of its kind to collect faculty engagement data on service learning and community-based research across a multi-state region, the survey included more than 2,500 faculty members at 47 campuses across California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

So What is Service Learning?

Service-learning is education based in inclusive community assistance, activism and outreach. Students engaged in service learning activities attain academic goals via service to their community. Also examined in the survey, community-based research involves collaboration between researchers and community members in the design and implementation of research projects aimed at meeting community-identified needs.

The Evergreen State College was notable for its use of service learning in teaching of social sciences, cross-cultural and international relations, education and the humanities. In each of these areas, Evergreen reported higher use of service learning than Western Region averages.

Service learning at Evergreen was also characterized by a focus on learning that promotes socially beneficial aims. The most reported issues addressed by service learning efforts according to responders at Evergreen included cultural awareness, education and literacy, environmental issues, health care, homelessness, immigration and refugee assistance, low-income assistance, parks and gardens, visual and performing arts, and vulnerable youth.

Researchers working on the project collected common data across the Western Region in order to identify current faculty service-learning and community-based research practices; possible strategies to motivate and support new faculty to do service-learning and community-based research; best practices by which to support faculty who already incorporate service-learning and community based research into their work; and the potential impacts of service-learning and community-based research on faculty, students, campuses, and communities.

Established in 1992 and hosted at Western Washington University, Washington Campus Compact and its membership of 35 two- and four-year colleges and universities work to promote service learning as a means to provide meaningful experiences for students to become active, engaged leaders in their communities, further the civic and public purposes of higher education and strengthen communities. Washington Campus Compact is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 higher education institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education

Participating Campus Compacts will be able to use data in the survey to shape strategic directions and programming as well as learn more about how faculty members are involved in service-learning and community-based research; how to support faculty; and how service-learning impacts faculty, students, and community members. “A research effort of this kind hasn’t been done in our region,” said Jennifer Dorr, executive director of Washington Campus Compact. “This research points to the significant impacts that service-learning has on faculty, students, and communities.”

The research project was funded by Learn and Serve America Higher Education, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service and directed by Washington Campus Compact.

For more information visit:

• Washington Campus Compact at http://www.wacampuscompact.org/
• The Evergreen State College Faculty Engagement Survey Quick Facts (PDF)

Free and open to the public

Representatives from more than two dozen graduate schools from Washington, Oregon and beyond will be on hand to field questions and provide counseling on next steps to pursuit of graduate education. Learn about Evergreen's Master of Public Administration, Master in Teaching and Master of Education, Master of Environmental Studies programs as well as a wide range of other graduate degree opportunities. The fair will feature degree options from the Northwest and across the country. Some of the participating schools include the University of Washington, Prescott College, Willamette University, Walla Walla University School of Social Work & Sociology, Lewis and Clark College, Antioch University--Seattle, Saint Martins University, Bainbridge Graduate Institute and Vermont Law School, among others.

Prospective graduate students will learn about undergraduate requirements, the importance of standardized tests, transcripts and other credentials needed for graduate school admission, and interdisciplinary study options. For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/career/events, call 360-867-6193, or email: knightn@evergreen.edu

The event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Library Building Lobby, second floor.

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505

Directions: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour

The Longhouse Holiday Native Art Fair will be held on Friday December 11, 2009 and Saturday December 12, 2009 at the Longhouse on The Evergreen State College campus in Olympia.

The fair hours will be 10 AM to 5 PM on Friday and 11 AM to 6 PM on Saturday.

Entertainment includes Rona Yellow Robe Walsh (Chippewa Cree) with Native Flute at 2 PM on Friday December 11 and a children’s story hour at 4 PM on Friday in the Cedar Room. Bobbie Bush (Chehalis) will offer children’s story telling again on Saturday at 2 PM.

Indian tacos, fry bread and beverages will be offered for sale by Tahoma Indian Center. To learn more visit http://www.evergreen.edu/longhouse/

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, Washington. For directions visit: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

"The Role of Chemistry in the Development of Regional Styles of Beer and Ale" at The Evergreen State College

Who

Dr. Mark Thomson of Ferris State University

What

Learn about how beer is made and the role that chemistry or microbiology plays in the process? We will briefly discuss the basic process of beer fermentation from a small-scale perspective. From malting the barley and mashing the malt, through fermentation and conditioning, to packaging the finished product, particular attention will be paid to the role of chemistry in the development of regional beer styles and traditions. Connections will be made between steps in the process and results in the final product including color, bitterness, aroma, body, and taste. Many of these connections will illustrate the subtle, but important role that small chemical details can play. For those interested, information will be available on judging standards and style guidelines for local and national Homebrew Competitions provided by the BJCP or Beer Judge Certification Program.

When

October 21st, 2009 at 6 p.m.

Where

The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505; Seminar II Building B-1105

Cost

Free Admission, No Reservations Required

An additional opportunity

Dinner with the speaker at 7.30 p.m. at Budd Bay Café in Olympia www.buddbaycafe.com; RSVP for dinner reservations only by 10/18/2009 at bopegedd@evergreen.edu or (360) 867-6620

Saturday, October 17, 2009 starting at 1 pm.

Where: “House of Welcome,” Longhouse Education and Cultural Center
The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505

Schedule:

1:00 p.m. - Opening Ceremony

1:30 p.m. - Open House (light food and refreshments served)

2:00 p.m. - Program (including acknowledgments, dedication of new Longhouse art, dance performances, potlatch (giveaway). The celebration will feature: Twana Seowin Society (Skokomish), Hottowe Family Dancers (Makah), Quinault Indian Nation Dancers, Kuteeya Alaska Native Dance Group and Siy?y? (Squaxin Island) as well as dedication of new art installations by John Goodwin “Nytom” (Makah) and Andrea Wilbur-Sigo (Squaxin Island) and Steve Sigo (Squaxin Island)

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to: the Ford Foundation, The Evergreen State College Foundation, the Lucky Eagle Casino and ARAMARK.

To participate:

RSVP by 10/12/09 to 360.867.5344 or email.
More information is available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/longhouse/

(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College Foundation is hosting its inaugural Art of Living Brunch and Art Auction from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 11 in the Daniel J. Evans Library on the college’s Olympia campus. The majority of the money raised will support student scholarships, with a portion also supporting the Evergreen Art Gallery. Tickets are now on sale to the general public at www.evergreen.edu/artofliving. Tickets are $100 each and include brunch. Seating is limited.

The event will include art in a range of media by artists including Nikki McClure, Cappy Thompson, Perri Lynch, Tina Hoggatt and other established and emerging artists. Many of the artists are Evergreen alumni. “Experience” items such as studio tours, dining and travel will also be up for bid. In addition, those attending will have an opportunity to make direct contributions to student scholarships which will be doubled by matching gifts from other Foundation donors. The event Web site includes a growing preview gallery of items available in the silent and oral auctions.

The event includes hors d’oeuvres by local chefs, pastries by The Bread Peddler, specialty items from Ranch House BBQ, coffee by Batdorf & Bronson Roasters and a gourmet four-course brunch featuring organic, locally-grown produce.

“The Art of Living event is a celebration of art, cuisine and community,” explained Lee Hoemann, Vice President for Advancement and Executive Director of The Evergreen State College Foundation. “It’s a collaborative effort between the college, artists, chefs and organizations committed to creating opportunities for future generations of community leaders. It will also be a lot of fun and a great chance to see and purchase some fantastic art.”

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/artofliving.

"Day of Caring is an annual United Way event that matches volunteers with community service projects at local nonprofit and community organizations. This year our volunteers have increased by 30 percent to more than 600 individuals working on 48 different projects, due to our collaboration with The Evergreen State College and the Volunteer Center. Day of Caring also officially kicks off United Way’s 2009 giving campaign, with a goal is to raise $1.4 million to help meet local human service needs," Pam Toal, Executive Director reports.

Ellen Shortt Sanchez, Director of the Evergreen Center for Community Based Learning and Action, states, "Evergreen has a 20-year history of encouraging new students to engage with the community. Community to Community service day is an activity during new student orientation week. Collaborating with United Way and the Volunteer Center, students will join Day of Caring sites to learn about community needs. The Evergreen Center for Community Based Learning and Action and the academic program Community Connections are encouraging students to respond to national problems with local solutions. We are expecting 150 students to volunteer at 16 local organizations."

This year the Volunteer Center managed the project and team database and helped United Way develop many new and innovative projects to engage volunteers in meaningful work. Examples include "On Board!," a class for people who are interested in joining a nonprofit board of directors, and "Building Bridges," another class where individuals can learn how to volunteer effectively with low-income families and individuals. Finally, United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council members are providing one-on-one mentoring with girls at the local Boys and Girls Clubs of Thurston County.

"We really wanted to develop a portfolio of volunteer opportunities for this year’s Day of Caring," said Sara Ballard, Executive Director of the Volunteer Center. "It’s important for people to see that they can help in a variety of ways. We worked hand in hand with businesses and community organizations to create unique projects for this year’s event."

NINE WHOLE DAYS??

Well… the KAOS Fall Membership Drive could be shorter - - it’s up to the listeners.

Here’s how it works: for every $4000.00 in paid memberships KAOS receives before 5pm Wednesday October 14, KAOS will shorten the drive by one day. If KAOS gets enough paid memberships to eliminate the entire nine days – they will eliminate the 2009 Fall membership drive and get right back to music, news and information.

New or renewing members at the $60 level or above--who also bring in a new paid member at the same level (or above)--will receive double thank-you gifts!

How to join KAOS: Visit http://www.kaosradio.org and click on join.

Artists include: Victoria Adams, Nicholas Brown, Timothy Cross, Michael Dailey, Steve Davis, Caryn Friedlander, Nicole Gibbs, Joseph Goldberg, Philip Govedare, Lee Imonen, Patrick Kelley, James Lavadour, R.T. Leverich, Norman Lundin, Nikki McClure, Anna McKee, Richard Misrach, Lynda K. Rockwood, Glenn Rudolph, Kirby Stanton, Barbara Earl Thomas, Wes Wehr, Brett Weston, Don Worth, Claude Zervas.

Evergreen wishes to acknowledge the artists and lenders who made this exhibition possible: private collectors, Francine Seders Gallery, Grover/Thurston Gallery, James Harris Gallery, Catherine Person Gallery, The James F. Holly Rare Book Collection of the Evergreen State College Library, The Evergreen State College Art Collection.

Evergreen Gallery

Hours: Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Daniel J. Evans Library Building, main entry level, room 2204
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW
Olympia, WA 98505
(360) 867-5125
www.evergreen.edu/gallery

With assistance from partners including The Evergreen State College, Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board, The Wild Fish Conservancy, People For Puget Sound, the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Restore America’s Estuaries program, an undersized 3-foot wide culvert at the mouth of campus’s Snyder Creek will be removed and replaced by a 14-foot wide box culvert. The cost of the culvert project totals $214,000, and is covered by contributions from The Evergreen State College, the Salmon Recovery Funding Board, and the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program.

The new fish passage will serve fish species such as coho salmon, chum salmon, cutthroat, and possibly steelhead. The bottom of the culvert will hold native stream bed. According to Jamie Glasgow of Wild Fish Conservancy, “Fish won’t even know they are in a culvert as they pass through it.”

Fish will once again gain access to almost one mile of spawning and rearing habitat. The work will also restore the natural processes of sediment, wood, and water transport - processes that researchers have found to be vital for fish and forest health. A work team, including contactor Horsley Timber and Construction, an engineer from Fisheries Consultant, Inc., an archeologist from the Squaxin Island Tribe, and fish biologists from Wild Fish Conservancy began construction on August 31 and construction will continue through September 6.

Bulkheads, barrier culverts, and other shoreline obstructions are threats to salmon habitat throughout the Puget Sound, and this project represents a potential model for actions around the Sound to restore fish access to critical breeding and rearing habitat. Restoring these habitats also has wider ecosystem benefits beyond the benefits for salmonids because it restores the ecological processes that shape diverse habitat structures. The shoreline of the College is one of the largest remaining stretches of undeveloped shoreline in south Puget Sound and thus restoration adjacent to that shoreline provides an opportunity for significant impact.

Horsley Construction was contracted by Wild Fish Conservancy after a competitive bid process. This method of public works required an innovative agreement between Wild Fish Conservancy and the college. Jamie Glasgow is the project manager for Wild Fish Conservancy.

Snyder Creek flows into Eld Inlet at Snyder Cove at the northwest corner of The Evergreen State College in Olympia.

Highlights:

• The Evergreen State College included in ‘America’s Best Colleges’
• Evergreen receives accolades for its commitment to teaching and for its “learning community” approach.
• America’s Best Colleges recognition latest in a series of strong showings for Evergreen in college rankings.

The Evergreen State College has been recognized among top colleges in the 2010 edition of America’s Best Colleges by U.S. News Media Group. The popular rankings, which include more than 1,400 schools nationwide, are available at http://www.usnews.com/colleges and will also be published in the September issue of the U.S. News & World Report magazine.

Evergreen was categorized among the best universities with options for Masters Degrees in the Western Region.

Evergreen was also recognized in the accompanying article “A Strong commitment to teaching” which noted the college as a top college and the only public college in the West that was identified for its “unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching” as measured by a peer assessment survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.

Evergreen’s distinctive “learning communities” approach was also highlighted by a peer assessment survey conducted by US News. Under the category “learning communities,” in the article “Programs to look for” Evergreen was listed among only 26 nationwide. Learning communities are a way of structuring curriculum to link together coursework so students find greater coherence in what they are learning and achieve more interactions with faculty and peers.

Over the past 26 years, the U.S. News college rankings, which group schools based on categories created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has grown as a research tool for students and parents considering higher education opportunities.

The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts and sciences college that consistently achieves national recognition--most recently from The Princeton Review, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, and Sierra Magazine -- for its distinctively rigorous and thoughtful educational model, affordable price and commitment to sustainability. More on other recent awards is available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/news/home.htm

Sierra magazine has named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably. From Harvard’s 17 LEED-certified buildings to Penn’s biodiesel recyclers, the magazine’s September/October cover story spotlights the schools that are making a true impact for the planet, and marks Sierra’s third annual listing of America’s greenest universities and colleges. The complete list is available online at http://www.sierraclub.org/coolschools

The Evergreen State College placed sixth on the list. Initiatives at the college include a pervasive focus on working toward sustainability and justice by integrating these topics into the graduate and undergraduate curriculum and student academic experiences, leadership in environmental design and organic agriculture, and sound conservation policies, including protection and preservation of natural spaces on campus.

“We're thrilled to see The Evergreen State College making a real commitment to greening its campus,” said Carl Pope, the Sierra Club’s executive director. “The next generation of students cares deeply about stopping global warming, and schools like Evergreen that take the initiative to become environmentally responsible are doing the right thing for the planet and are better poised to attract the best students.”

The announcement comes just weeks after the Princeton Review noted Evergreen as one of its 15 ‘Green Honor Roll’ colleges for receiving a score of 99, the highest possible green rating score possible. More on this: http://www.evergreen.edu/news/archive/2009/07/princeton

This year’s top-20 coolest schools are taking dramatic steps to curb climate change. Whether it’s UCLA, with 38,476 students, The Evergreen State College with its 4,696 students, or the College of the Atlantic with 321 students, Sierra’s list shows that schools of all sizes are taking action.

Sierra’s Top 20 coolest schools of 2009 are:

1. University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
2. University of Washington at Seattle (Seattle, Washington)
3. Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
4. University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)
5. College of the Atlantic (Bal Harbor, Maine)
6. The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington)
7. University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
8. University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
9. University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
10. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
11. Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
12. University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire)
13. Arizona State University at Tempe (Tempe, Arizona)
14. Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
15. University of Florida at Gainesville (Gainesville, Florida)
16. Bates College (Lewiston, Maine)
17. Willamette University (Salem, Oregon)
18. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, North Carolina)
19. Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
20. New York University (New York, New York)

Sierra magazine has 1.2 million readers and is a publication of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental group. For full descriptions of each winning school’s green efforts, visit Sierra magazine online at: http://www.sierraclub.org/coolschools

Only about 15% of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship annual college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with school rating scores in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges.

Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's V.P., Publishing and author of "The Best 371 Colleges," "We commend The Evergreen State College for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book. We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character. We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff who visit hundreds of colleges a year. We also value the opinions and suggestions of our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and independent college counselors we hear from yearlong."

In its profile on The Evergreen State College, The Princeton Review praises the school for its focus on interdisciplinary education, its strength in environmental studies, and its strong emphasis on collaborative learning. The Princeton Review quotes from Evergreen students. Among their comments about their campus experiences: "the professors at Evergreen are more than teachers, they are your partner in education and dedicate themselves to facilitating the students’ learning."

The Princeton Review's 62 ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" are entirely based on its survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Topics range from student assessments of their professors, administrators, financial aid, and campus food. Other ranking lists are based on student reports about their student body's political leanings, race/class relations, gay community acceptance, and other aspects of campus life.

The school profiles in "The Best 371 Colleges" also have ratings that are based largely on institutional data that The Princeton Review collected during the 2008-09 academic year. The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 that are tallied in eight categories. Among them are ratings for Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, and Green, a rating The Princeton Review introduced in 2008 that is a measure of school's commitment to environmentally related policies, practices and education. The Evergreen State College ranked 99 (the highest possible score) on the Green Rating, placing it among only 15 schools on the Green Rating Honor Roll.

The Princeton Review posts the school profiles and ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" on its site at which users can read FAQs about the book, the survey, and the criteria for each of the ratings and rankings.

"The Best 371 Colleges" is the 18th edition of The Princeton Review's annual "best colleges" book. Over the years, the book and its ranking lists have been favorably cited by former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (among others).

The schools in "The Best 371 Colleges" are also part of 640 colleges and universities that The Princeton Review commends in its website feature, "2010 Best Colleges: Region by Region - Northeast / Midwest / Southeast / West."

The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is known for its tutoring and classroom test preparation courses, books, and college and graduate school admission services. Its corporate headquarters is in Framingham, MA, and editorial offices are in New York City. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.

The Maori artist Takirirangi Smith who crafted The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center’s first waka (war canoe) at The Evergreen State College is returning for Tribal Journeys 2009 featuring canoes and international cultural activities at end of journey events from Monday August 3, 2009 until Saturday August 8, 2009 in Suquamish, Washington.

Canoes will arrive at 1:00 p.m. on August 3 at the new community house, “The House of Awakened Culture” that is located near the waterfront in downtown Suquamish. The event on the Port Madison Reservation in North Kitsap County will feature cultural events, learning adventures and family entertainment.

The Canoe Journey is a time of healing, hope, happiness, honor and hospitality. People attending the event can expect to be thrilled at the sight of a bay filled with beautifully carved canoes coming in to land.

The events mark the 20th anniversary of the historical 1989 “Paddle to Seattle.” This was the first traditional intertribal canoe voyage in over a hundred years, leaving the shores of Suquamish for Seattle. The 1989 Journey with nine canoes continues this year in central Puget Sound with approximately 80 canoes expected to participate.

Mr. Takirirangi will paddle the waka carved with fellow artist John Smith. The waka usually resides at The Evergreen State College Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

Canoes will arrive in Suquamish from diverse locations including Hood Canal, Washington’s West Coast, Mainland BC, the San Juan Islands, Westcoast Vancouver Islands and the Inside Passage of British Columbia.

More information is available at http://www.tribaljourneys2009.com/ and http://tribaljourneys.wordpress.com/

NEW YORK, July 27, 2009, Noon EDT -- The Princeton Review – known for its education services helping students choose and get into colleges -- today reported its second annual Green Ratings of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99. The company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings.

The Princeton Review named 15 colleges to its "2010 Green Rating Honor Roll" – a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest possible score – 99 – in this year's rating tallies.

The Princeton Review’s "2010 Green Rating Honor Roll"

This list, published in "The Best 371 Colleges," salutes 15 institutions (eight private and seven public colleges) that received the highest possible rating score of 99. It includes:

(in alphabetical order)

• Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
• Bates College (Lewiston ME)
• Binghamton University (State Univ. of New York at Binghamton)
• College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
• Colorado College (Colorado Springs CO)
• Dickinson College (Carlisle PA)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia WA)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
• Northeastern University (Boston MA)
• University of California - Berkeley
• University of New Hampshire (Durham)
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• Yale University (New Haven CT)

Said Robert Franek, V.P. / Publisher, The Princeton Review, "The 'green' movement on college campuses is far more than an Earth Day recycling project. It is growing tremendously among students and administrators alike. This year we saw a 30% increase in the number of colleges participating in our Green Rating survey. We thank the nearly 700 institutions (697 vs. 534 last year) that supplied us with the data we requested to tally their scores. Many have shown extraordinary commitments to environmental issues and to the environment in their practices and programs. We are pleased to play a role in helping students who care deeply about these issues identify, get into, and study at these schools."

Franek noted the rising interest among students in attending colleges that practice, teach and support environmentally responsible choices. Among almost 16,000 college applicants and parents of applicants The Princeton Review surveyed this year for its annual "College Hopes & Worries Survey," 66% of respondents overall (and 68% of students vs. 59% of parents) said they would value having information about a college's commitment to the environment – a 4% increase from last year's respondents. Among that cohort, 24% of respondents overall (26% of students vs. 18% of parents) said such information would "very much" impact their (their child's) decision to apply to or attend the school.

The Princeton Review has dedicated a resource area on its website for students and others interested in learning more about the rating and the benefits of attending a green college. The area has information on colleges with exemplary environmental programs, questions to ask on school visits, and links to organizations that promote higher education and campus sustainability programs.

Criteria

The Princeton Review developed its Green Rating criteria and institutional survey in 2007 with ecoAmerica , a non-profit environmental organization that continues to participate in this project. The criteria for the rating cover three broad areas: 1/ whether the school’s students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable, 2/ how well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges, and 3/ the school's overall commitment to environmental issues. The institutional survey for the rating included ten questions on everything from energy use, recycling, food, buildings, and transportation to academic offerings (availability of environmental studies degrees and courses) and action plans and goals concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions.

About The Princeton Review College Ratings and College Rankings

The Green Rating scores appear in the profiles of the 697 schools that The Princeton Review posted today on its site, . The ratings are also in profiles of those schools in the 2010 editions of three Princeton Review books: "The Best 371 Colleges" (on sale July 28, $22.99), "The Best Northeastern Colleges" (on sale August 4, $16.99), and "Complete Book of Colleges" (on sale August 4, $26.99), all published by Random House.

The Princeton Review college ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 in eight categories that it reports in some college profiles on its website and in its college guides. The ratings are based primarily on institutional data. In addition to the Green Rating, other rating categories include: Financial Aid, and Fire Safety (for which The Princeton Review also reports Honor Rolls of schools receiving its highest possible score of 99), and Admissions Selectivity. Schools from which The Princeton Review does not receive sufficient data in a category to tally a rating receive a score of 60* (sixty with an asterisk).

The Princeton Review college rankings are lists of schools in 62 categories (in rank order 1 to 20) based entirely on the Company's surveys of 122,000 students attending the schools in its book, "The Best 371 Colleges." The survey asks students to rate their own schools on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them.

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review (NASDAQ: REVU) has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for more than 25 years through college and graduate school test preparation and tutoring. With more than 165 print and digital publications and a free website, , the company provides student and their parents with the resources to research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education. The Princeton Review also partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout the U.S. to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning services, helping more students pursue postsecondary education. The Company is headquartered in Framingham, MA with editorial offices in New York City and test preparation locations across the country and abroad. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.

About ecoAmerica

ecoAmerica (www.ecoAmerica.org) is an environmental nonprofit that uses consumer research, partnerships, and engagement marketing to shift the personal and civic choices of mainstream Americans. ecoAmerica partnered with The Princeton Review to develop the initial concept of the Green Rating and provided strategic planning and partnership building expertise for its development. Other programs ecoAmerica has launched include The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, Nature Rocks, and GreenCareers by MonsterTRAK.

Criteria for The Princeton Review Green Rating of Colleges

The Princeton Review tallied the Green Rating scores based on institutional data it obtained from the colleges during the 2008-2009 academic year in response to ten survey questions that asked:

1. The percentage of food expenditures that goes toward local, organic or otherwise environmentally preferable food
2. Whether the school offers programs including free bus passes, universal access transit passes, bike sharing/renting, car sharing, carpool parking, vanpooling or guaranteed rides home to encourage alternatives to single-passenger automobile use for students
3. Whether the school has a formal committee with participation from students that is devoted to advancing sustainability on campus
4. Whether new buildings are required to be LEED (environmental certification of equipment/appliances) Silver certified or comparable
5. The school's overall waste diversion rate
6. Whether the school has an environmental studies major, minor or concentration
7. Whether the school has an "environmental literacy" requirement
8. Whether the school has produced a publicly available greenhouse gas emissions inventory and adopted a climate action plan consistent with 80 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 targets
9. What percentage of the school’s energy consumption, including heading/cooling and electrical, is derived from renewable sources (this definition included “green tags” but not nuclear or large-scale hydropower)
10. Whether the school employs a dedicated full-time (or full-time equivalent) sustainability officer.

Universities Join UN-led Initiative to Combat Climate Change

Nairobi, 23 July 2009 - Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.

They are the pioneers among hundreds of universities, colleges and other academic institutions worldwide that are taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote "greening" of their campuses and invest in low-carbon research and development.

UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said: "The Climate Neutral Network was inspired by a simple idea that a transformation to a low, even zero emission future is a learning process. It is therefore fitting that universities from all over the world should join this global networking platform and help make the best knowledge on climate neutrality available to all."

"As think tanks, creativity hubs and change agents in our societies, we welcome universities on board the CN Net and hope that they will bring their vast libraries of knowledge to the Network and use it to accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient future."

From using renewable sources of energy such as wind, sun and biomass to developing fuel cell vehicles to encouraging neighbouring communities to take on the low carbon challenge, the new CN Net participants are taking leadership on the issue of climate change at the local, national and international levels.

In the United States alone, 645 colleges and universities are moving towards climate neutrality as part of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), and many of these schools are perfect candidates for the CN Net.

"Colleges and universities are arguably the most important institutions to address climate disruption because they can model climate neutrality on their campuses, and they can teach their students the skills and knowledge they need to address the climate crisis," said Anthony D. Cortese, coordinator of the ACUPCC and president of Second Nature - a nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities make the principles of sustainability fundamental to every aspect of higher education.

The first universities that have joined the Climate Neutral Network are:

College of the Atlantic, Maine (USA): The College was founded in 1969 on the premise that education should go beyond understanding the world as it is, to enabling students to actively shape its future. It has pioneered a special interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education - human ecology - with the view to developing the types of leaders needed by all sectors of society in addressing the compelling and growing human needs of our world. College of the Atlantic has been carbon neutral since December 19, 2007. It achieved this by reducing and avoiding its greenhouse gases emissions, and by carefully calculating all other emissions (including that of visitors to campus), which are offset. All electricity is now purchased from a low-impact hydroelectric generator in Maine, and a wind turbine powers the farmhouse on the college's outlying organic farm (which supplies some of the produce to the college's dining hall). The college has completed an energy audit, established a bicycle plan, encourages telecommuting when possible and has switched all possible incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs.

Evergreen State College, Washington (USA): The Evergreen State College has established a national reputation for leadership in developing innovative interdisciplinary academic programs. Evergreen has been a leader in environmental education from the beginning, and in recent years, the College has advanced its commitment to sustainability. Evergreen is engaging the local, regional and global community to demonstrate and enact clear policies to address the world-changing challenges of climate change. The College has set a goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2020 and currently purchases 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) from renewable energy sources, representing 100 percent of the school's annual electricity usage. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Evergreen State College's purchase of more than 16 million kilowatt-hours of green power is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 1,600 average American homes each year or has the equivalent impact of reducing the CO2 emissions of more than 2,100 passenger cars annually. Furthermore, Evergreen's most recent energy savings and conservation plan will reduce carbon output by 500 tonnes and save $73,000 per year.

Malaga University (Spain): Malaga University (UMA) is a public institution which promotes outstanding research and teaching within the European Higher Education Area. With a university community of just over 40,000 people, over the last decade UMA has sought to promote the internationalization of its teaching. UMA offers an extensive catalogue of specialized teaching and postgraduate study with particular focus on urban biodiversity. In the sustainability field, Malaga University has created a solar thermal surface of 2000 m2 for a renewable energy heating source. The University is also in the process of building a solar photovoltaic panel surface of 8000 m2 with a production capacity of 1 megawatt with plans to eventually use geothermal energy with a tri-generation plant on the campus. In the year 2012, Malaga University will finish subway transportation between the Central City and the University City. In addition, the university plans to introduce more sustainable transportation (bicycles, hybrid vehicles) and create 264.905 m2 of urban forest and green zones.

Middlebury College, Vermont (USA): Middlebury is ranked as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward. Indeed, the college claims that the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns-for some through the study of the environment. Middlebury College has set a goal of carbon neutrality by 2016. The implementation strategy adopted by the College relies on a switch of the fuels it uses for heating, cooling and cooking from fossil based to renewables. Toward that end, the College recently built a $12 million biomass gasification system which uses wood chips from nearby forests and mills. This has cut Middlebury College's carbon footprint by 40%, or 12,500 metric tonnes, cut fuel costs by $750,000/yr. and has put $800,000 new money into the local economy.

Tongji University, Shanghai (China): Tongji University was established in 1907 and is one of the oldest leading universities in China, operating under the State Ministry of Education. It offers degree programs both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a School of Environmental Science and Engineering and an Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, which was created in partnership with UNEP. The name Tongji signifies "cooperating by riding the same boat." Tongji University certainly understands that we are all part of a global "boat" that needs to deal with the rising tide of climate change and Tongji has begun developing green technologies. The Tongji Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering Center helped develop fuel cell vehicles, which are now being tested in a six-month road testing in California. Principals of Tongji Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering Center have expressed that this was the first time for China's fuel cell vehicles to participate in international demonstrations. These fuel cell-powered sedans can reach 150 miles per hour and cover up to 300 miles after one Hydrogen charging. Tongji University also uses solar energy, reuses water, and has energy-saving technologies. In the Wenyuan Building, the university does not only maintain the historical features of the building, but also builds the concept of eco-building by using technologies such as geo-heat pumps, thermal insulation systems, rainwater collection and recycling systems.

University of the West of England, Bristol (UK): The University is committed to a range of actions that address climate change through its Sustainability Strategy for 2008 to 2012, including clear reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. The University developed a carbon management plan in partnership with the Carbon Trust that aims to progressively reduce dependency on fossil fuels and contribute to achieving the UK target of an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. From 2006 to 2007, the University reduced its carbon emissions by more than 23%. Some aspects of their strategy involve calculating the University's carbon commitment, reducing energy use in buildings, encouraging public transportation, and implementing an energy awareness campaign. The University is also a founding member of the West of England Carbon Challenge, an innovative project that is challenging all businesses, public and third sector bodies in the Bristol city-region to commit to making an annual cut in emissions for four years to reach a cumulative total of at least 10% by 2012.

Quotes from some of the new CN Net members:

"We are pleased to have this opportunity to join with a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." - Scott Morgan, Office of Sustainability, Evergreen State College

"Middlebury College has set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016 for several important reasons. We recognized early on that the threats of climate change are serious and that they can only be addressed through coordinated local and international efforts by all sectors of society. By taking leadership on this issue we are expressing that concern and showing that there are solutions that make sense from a sustainability perspective - solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the local economy, and strengthen the vitality and health of surrounding communities. We joined CN Net because it provides a means for adding our voice and our examples of leadership to a growing international movement to take substantive, effective action to address the challenge of climate change." - Jack Byrne, Director, Sustainability Integration Office, Middlebury College

"The University of the West of England, Bristol is delighted to support the UN's Climate Neutral Network. We look forward to actively participating, learning from the successes of fellow members and sharing the outcomes of the actions that we have taken to reduce our own carbon dependency. Joining this new Network is further evidence of the University's strong commitment to sustainability. The University is already taking vigorous action to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations - we cut gas consumption by 46% between 2006 and 2007 - and we seek to ensure that our students - the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow - are aware of the challenges and opportunities of creating a sustainable and low-carbon future. We also carry out key research into climate change issues through an Institute dedicated to sustainability. In addition we are responding strategically to the challenges of sustainability and climate change via a Sustainability Board, chaired by the Deputy Vice Chancellor." - Professor James Longhurst, Associate Dean and Professor of Environmental Science, University of the West of England, Bristol

For more information, please visit: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=593&ArticleID=6255&l=en

In order to reduce landfill trash on campus, Greeners have turned to reusing, recycling and composting waste instead. The Evergreen Organic Farm, and Silver Springs Organics, a local commercial composting facility, picks up an average of 6000 lbs. of compost each week. At present, Silver Springs accepts the bulk of it; however, many Greeners hope to see the Organic Farm expand its compost capabilities in the future.

During the winter academic quarter, Evergreen took part in a national competition called RecycleMania. Students, staff and faculty joined efforts to better educate people on proper recycling practices. During the 10 week competition, a group of students, staff and faculty met bi-weekly to coordinate waste reduction efforts across campus. With the help of Sherry Parsons in the office of Facilities Services, coordinators Lindsay Raab, Natalie Pyrooz and Halli Winstead tracked the weights of campus landfill trash, recycling and compost over the 10 week period; the results were then posted on the Evergreen Sustainability website. The RecycleMania team held two waste audits on campus that served as educational tools for everyone involved. Recyclable waste in landfill trash bins was weighed and recorded on a chalkboard for everyone to view, and later analyzed and communicated to the campus community. Other RecycleMania activities included weekly email trivia, creating art from discarded materials, and fieldtrips to Silver Springs Organics.

Students and staff in Residential and Dining (RAD) Services also took steps toward zero landfill waste. When college students move out of their dorm rooms at the end of each academic year, a lot of landfill waste is created. In its effort to strive toward campus sustainability, Evergreen sought ways to mitigate this influx of refuse by offering alternatives for usable and recyclable goods.

In June 2009, RAD Services was able to divert waste both from students moving out, and from the apartment remodeling project. Reusable goods that student residents did not want to take home were collected by the PODS project (portable on-demand storage), sorted, and donated to local non-profits. This project, in its fourth year, is organized by Resident Director Melissa Turkington. Preliminary observations indicate that collections doubled since last year. The program is exemplary in thoughtfully giving back to the community rather than ignoring the environmental and social implications of adding volume to landfills.

New this year, RAD Services was able to donate much of its old furniture that is being replaced due to remodeling some of the apartments. As policy dictates, these goods typically have gone to state surplus in previous years. However, due to the age and condition of the furniture, surplus has not been able to sell these goods, which then may end up at a recycler or possibly in the landfill. Through an agreement with state surplus based on past experiences, RAD Services sought out non-profits who would be able to reuse the goods. RAD Services was able to donate most of the furniture to local non-profits, and recycle approximately 80% of the remodeling waste.

The Waste Reduction and Sustainable Purchasing Work Group of the Sustainability Council at Evergreen continues to focus on two main goals. The first goal is to influence Evergreen’s purchasing decisions toward products and services that are more environmentally friendly. Evergreen's paper usage has decreased almost 25% since fiscal year 2006. “Double-sided printing is encouraged, as well as going ‘paperless’ as often as possible,” said Kathleen Haskett, Purchasing and Contracts Manager. “Many faculty are teaching class without distributing or requiring paper; digital media is used whenever possible.” In addition, the Library and computer labs on campus use a print management system to lessen accidental duplicate printing. The college purchases 100% post consumer recycled content, chlorine/acid free paper, manufactured with 100% certified renewable energy by Grays Harbor Paper of Hoquiam. In addition, Kathleen has proposed a revised purchasing policy for the college that will further support sustainability.

The work group’s second goal focuses on reducing and recycling as much waste as possible, particularly electronic waste. Aaron Powell, Director of Computing and Communications, is drafting an e-waste policy to present to the Policy Oversight Group in the near future. Powell and others across campus continue to work on reducing the amount of printers on campus, and experimenting with green products, such as soy based ink.

It is an ongoing process to update signs, educate people, and keep up-to-date on proper sustainable practices. Sustainability on campus requires effort on both an institutional and individual level. Greeners face many obstacles working toward sustainability on campus, yet they continue to make progress toward their goal of zero landfill waste. For more information about The Sustainability Council at Evergreen, please visit: www.evergreen.edu/sustainability

By Lindsay Raab and Natalie Pyrooz
Members of The Sustainability Council at Evergreen

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Bellevue, WA 98004
August 1, 2009
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August 2, 2009
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Event participants will learn more about conducting a well-informed college search at an information session and college fair. Sponsored by Colleges That Change Lives, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of a student-centered college search process, these programs are free to the public and pre-registration is not required.

Three Northwest Colleges have been featured in the book, including Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington), Reed College (Portland, Oregon), and The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington).

Evergreen is described in Colleges that Change Lives as “one of the three best in the Northwest.” The top 20 college guide also notes that Evergreen was opened to prepare “young people to live effectively in a new kind of world” and that “taxpayers everywhere should demand colleges like this one. . .”

For more details about Colleges That Change Lives and upcoming events, visit www.ctcl.org

The updated 2010 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges features 44 Best Buy Schools. These institutions are selected based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance. The Evergreen State College is a Fiske 2010 Best Buy School.

The list of Best Buy Schools—which doesn’t rank the schools against each other—evaluates more than 330 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Fiske researchers combined cost data with academic and other life-style information about each college or university to determine what institutions offer "remarkable educational opportunities at a relatively modest cost."

The Fiske Guide accepts no consulting, advertising or other fees from colleges.

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Fans of science will love the sixth annual Science Carnival set for Friday May 29 and Saturday May 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day

(Olympia, Wash.)  The Science Carnival is free and open to the public. The event offers hundreds of presentations from Evergreen science students with an emphasis on demonstration, hands on participation and fun. Designed for students kindergarten through grade 12 or anyone in the community with an interest in science, the Science Carnival will feature distinct presentations such as Kids and Chemistry, Mapping other Planets in our Solar System, Mendelian Genetics, and Making Biodiesel, including experiments that will engage the minds of school children and teenagers.   Participants can choose from as many as a dozen presentations at any given time. Each presentation lasts 30 to 60 minutes and many popular topics will be repeated over the two days.

Topics covered will include chemistry, computer science, biology, food science, health science, optics, physics, criminal science, astronomy, marine science, and others. Anyone with an interest in the physical world will enjoy the Science Carnival, the largest event of its kind in Washington State.

Preview the science carnival online

http://academic.evergreen.edu/events/sciencecarnival/

(Olympia, Wash.) Ruth Parker, a nationally recognized expert on mathematics instruction will speak on changes needed in the teaching of mathematics so our communities’ children will have greater access to opportunities.

The event takes place on Thursday May 14, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Olympia High School’s Performing Arts Center, 1302 North Street, Olympia, WA. The presentation, sponsored by The Evergreen Center for Educational Improvement at The Evergreen State College and the Mathematics Education Collaborative (http://www.mec-math.org) is designed for parents, educators, and community leaders — or anyone else who would like to learn how to better prepare children in essential skills for the workplace of today and tomorrow.

For more information contact:

Lynne Adair: adairl@evergreen.edu
Anita Lenges: lengesa@evergreen.edu, (360)867-6150

UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Evergreen State College President Thomas "Les" Purce and legendary musician Arthel "Doc" Watson at the University's spring Commencement Ceremony. The ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 16, on UNC Asheville's Quad. Purce will give the commencement address to some 385 graduates.

Purce has served as president of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a nationally recognized public liberal arts institution, for nine years. Purce has also held top-ranking administrative roles at Washington State University and Idaho State University. He has been a civic leader as well. Purce was the first black elected official in Idaho, serving as city councilman and then mayor of Pocatello. He later served as director of Idaho’s departments of Administration and Health & Welfare. In the private sector, Purce was partner and CEO of Power Engineering Inc., a large electrical engineering firm in the Northwest.

Purce has helped guide The Evergreen State College into its national reputation for interdisciplinary academic programs serving some 4,400 students. Instead of letter grades, professors give individual written evaluations; and rather than choosing a department or major, students design their own curriculums. Evergreen's 1,000-acre campus, including forests and salt water beaches, serve as inspiration for the college's dedication to sustainability. For example, a self-imposed student fee dictates that 100% of the college's electricity comes from "green" sources, L.E.E.D. gold certified buildings make up the campus, and more than a quarter of the food served in the dining hall is from local or organic sources.

Watson, a native of Western North Carolina, is a legendary guitar player, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk and country music. Blind since the age of one, Watson attended North Carolina’s school for the visually impaired in Raleigh. Though he did well in the classroom, his true love was music. Watson got his big career break at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, and recorded his first solo album the following year. He has toured and recorded to rave reviews ever since.

His signature playing style and traditional mountain roots propelled Watson to an award-winning, patriarchal role in the American folk and bluegrass music revival. He has won seven Grammy Awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1997, Watson was given the National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton and in 2000 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. But perhaps one of his most lasting marks on live music was the founding of the popular MerleFest music festival held every April in Wilkesboro, N.C. The festival, named in honor of Watson’s late son, draws more than 85,000 fans each year. Even at age 86, Watson continues to serve as festival host and center stage performer.

For more information about Commencement, call UNC Asheville's Office of the Provost at 828/251-6470 or click on www.unca.edu/commencement/.

More than 1,200 students will receive their diplomas before an audience expected to number more than 7,000. The college will award bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees, as well as joint BA/BS degrees and masters degrees in teaching, public administration and environmental science.

Live Broadcast

KAOS radio will broadcast the ceremonies live, including the annual keynote address. KAOS will broadcast commencement on Friday June 12th, starting at 1 p.m. at 89.3 fm, KAOS Olympia Community Radio.

The ceremony will be available again this year as a live webcast and in pictures.

View the 2009 Graduation Photo Presentation

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Super Saturday, an event that has traditionally followed on the Saturday after graduation, will not take place this year.

2009 Graduation Speakers

Guest Speaker: David Whyte
A poet, lecturer and corporate consultant, David Whyte’s poetry reflects a living spirituality and a deep connection to the natural world. Whyte studied Marine Zoology in Wales and trained as a naturalist in the Galapagos Islands. Whyte has worked as a naturalist guide, leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in various parts of the world, including treks among the mountains of Nepal. He is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, conducting workshops with many American and international companies. In corporate settings, Whyte uses poetry to bring an understanding of the process of change, helping clients to understand individual and organizational creativity, and to apply that understanding to vitalize and transform the workplace.

Faculty Speaker: Alan Parker
Alan Parker is an Evergreen faculty member and also serves as the Director of Evergreen's Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute. He is a citizen of the Chippewa-Cree Tribal Nation, and grew up on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Northern Montana. He is a former director of the National Indian Policy Center and a former Chief Counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, before coming to Evergreen, Parker was the president of the American Indian National Bank. He was recently appointed to serve as Secretary to the United League of Indigenous Nations. Alan received the Juris Doctorate from the University of California-Los Angeles, and has spent many years practicing law.

Undergraduate Student Speaker: Casi L.A. LaLonde
After losing her job with Weyerhaeuser in 2006, Casi LaLonde attended Grays Harbor Community College to finish her AA degree. She was introduced to Evergreen's Grays Harbor program through the dislocated workers program. LaLonde was admitted to Evergreen's Olympia campus in Fall 2007 to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She plans to continue at Evergreen in the Masters of Public Administration Program. LaLonde is a single mother of one and hopes to work with at-risk juveniles.

Graduate Student Speaker: Amanda Marie Peterson
A transfer student from Tacoma Community College, Amanda Marie Peterson entered Evergreen as an undergraduate student in Fall 2004. Peterson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2007 and continued at Evergreen as a graduate student in the Masters in Teaching program. She served as a student-teacher in Tacoma at Henry Foss High School teaching senior English and Meeker Middle School teaching eighth grade reading, math and algebra. After graduation, Peterson hopes to obtain a job teaching middle school in the Tacoma Public School district.

The festival is now a part of history, but KAOS marches on – with their Great CD and Vinyl Sale, Saturday May 23rd on the second floor of the College Activities Building at the Evergreen Olympia Campus. From Noon to 7pm, you can build your library, feed your turntable and SAVE on THOUSANDS of CDs and – for the first time, vinyl albums from the KAOS vaults. There will be outside music vendors as well; vendors interested in selling at the event should contact John Ford at 360-867-6894 or fordj@evergreen.edu.

Synergy: The 8th Annual Sustainable Living Conference is being held at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The dates for the 2009 conference are Wednesday, May 6th through Friday, May 8th.

This conference has grown to be a powerful platform to engage and address the intertwining themes of ecology, design, culture, health, and social change.

Synergy is organized by a non-profit coalition of student organizers. The title of the event reflects a belief that the solutions to the world’s problems can only be solved though collaboration, where the whole becomes more then the sum of its parts.

This year’s conference will include presentations by notable leaders in their respected fields. Speakers include the Rhizome Collective's Scott Kellogg, CEO of Natural Capitalism Hunter Lovins, and Sustainablebusiness.com founder Kevin Wilhelm.

Aramark will be serving a locally sourced and organic meal option each day in the Greenery. Synergy is a free event and open to the public, all are encouraged to attend. Parking is $2.00 per day. Synergy is funded by the Evergreen State College Services and Activities Fee Allocation Board.

For more information and a complete schedule of activities, visit http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

• Attend a registration and academic planning workshop
• Meet freshman program faculty and Evergreen staff
• Learn more about the curriculum
• Meet other new students
• Register for your first academic program for fall quarter

Learn more by visiting the Academic Advising Office web pages where you'll find links to a full schedule and complete information.

Olympia, Wash, April 20, 2009 — The Evergreen State College announced today that it was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the 2008-2009 Individual Conference Champion for purchasing more green power than any other school in the Cascade Collegiate Conference.

Since April 2006, EPA’s Green Power Partnership has tracked and recognized the collegiate athletic conferences with the highest combined green power purchases in the nation. The Individual Conference Champion Award recognizes the school that has made the largest individual purchase of green power within a qualifying conference.

The Evergreen State College beat its conference rivals by purchasing more than 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, representing 100 percent of the school’s annual electricity usage. The Evergreen State College is buying utility green power products from Puget Sound Energy and Tacoma Power, which helps to reduce the environmental impacts associated with the campus’s purchased electricity use.

EPA estimates that The Evergreen State College’s purchase of more than 16 million kilowatt-hours of green power is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 1,600 average American homes each year or has the equivalent impact of reducing the CO2 emissions of more than 2,100 passenger cars annually.

The Cascade Collegiate Conference’s collective green power purchase of more than 31 million kWh of green power is equivalent to the annual electricity use of more than 2,600 average American homes or the annual CO2 emissions of nearly 3,500 cars.

“Each year our college and university Green Power Partners raise the bar for clean, renewable energy use,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “By taking action on its campus, Evergreen State College is helping to move our nation into a clean energy future.”

Twenty-two collegiate conferences and 44 schools competed in the 2008-2009 challenge, collectively purchasing more than 1 billion kWh of green power. EPA will extend the College & University Green Power Challenge for a fourth year, to conclude in spring of 2010. EPA’s Green Power Challenge is open to all U.S. colleges, universities, and conferences. In order to qualify, a collegiate athletic conference must include at least one school that qualifies as a Green Power Partner, and the conference must collectively meet EPA’s minimum conference purchase requirement. For more information, visit: http://www.epa.gov/grnpower/initiatives/cu_challenge.htm.

Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro. Green power is considered cleaner than conventional sources of electricity and has lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a greenhouse gas linked to global climate change. Purchases of green power help accelerate the development of new renewable energy capacity nationwide.

From edible forest gardens to a salmon-safe certified organic farm to campus housing options in which students consciously choose a different way to relate to their natural world, Evergreen provides students with the opportunity to embark on new ways of thinking. Purchasing Green Power is an important part of Evergreen’s commitment to sustainability.

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

About the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership

EPA’s Green Power Partnership encourages organizations to purchase green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use. The Green Power Partnership currently has more than 1,000 Partners voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, trade associations, as well as colleges and universities. For additional information please visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower.

For more information about EPA’s College and University Green Power Challenge, visit the Challenge Web site at http://www.epa.gov/grnpower/initiatives/cu_challenge.htm.

One lane will be worked on at a time in order to accommodate normal traffic with minimal delays. Flaggers will be directing and controlling traffic throughout the project. Intercity Transit will continue their normal services and maintain their normal routes and schedules in this area.

Thanks for your understanding and patience as we implement this important project. Please contact Brian Anderson if you have questions and concerns.

April 14th at 7 pm

Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Olympia

Topic: Bee colony collapse disorder

Speaker: Bob Bower - Owner of Four B’s Farm and appointed representative from Washington State to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Bower has just returned from Maryland after attending a meeting with five other agencies to discuss this crisis. He will share the latest research on colony collapse disorder including possible solutions and what individual gardeners can do to help mitigate the destruction of bee populations.

The event will take place at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 1530 Black Lake Blvd. SW in Olympia

Gallery opening, art exhibition

April 2, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm (exhibition continues through April 29, 2009)
The Evergreen State College Gallery, Main Floor of The Daniel J. Evans Library at Evergreen

Basia Irland is a sculptor and installation artist, a poet and book artist, and an activist in international water issues. Her thoughtful interdisciplinary projects combine beautiful artworks, a fascination with research, and a participative engagement with the viewer.

The exhibition at Evergreen Gallery, A Gathering of Waters: The Nisqually River, Source to Sound includes a survey of Irland’s earlier artworks, which provides context for her recent project created while working as an artist-in-residence. Through this grass-roots participatory project, Irland has sought to connect people and bring more attention to ongoing efforts for protecting and honoring our rivers and streams. While exploring the effect of human controls and demands on rivers, it celebrates the people who work to conserve our watershed.

This project is generously supported by a gift from the Tom Rye Harvill Award.

Irland is Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, Department of Art and Art History. She has created projects about water issues throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in 22 permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Public Archives of Canada, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Fulbright Senior Research Award to Southeast Asia. In 1999, Irland produced a documentary that was shown on PBS: A Gathering of Waters: The Rio Grande, Source to Sea. A monograph on her art, titled Water Library, was published in 2007 by University of New Mexico Press.

More Information: Opening Day Slide Show | The Evergreen Gallery

Artist’s web site: http://www.unm.edu/~basia/BIRLAND/

About KAOS

Licensed to the Evergreen State College, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-six year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County’s largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

About TCTV

Thurston Community Television is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation/membership organization that provides public, educational, and government access television in greater Thurston County, Washington. TCTV provides access channel management, training and production support to local residents, groups, government agencies and educational institutions. TCTV’s programming is seen on access channels on the Comcast cable system in Thurston County. Membership is open to any Thurston County resident or non-profit organization located in Thurston County. TCTV believes that community access media is an appropriate and powerful vehicle for promoting greater awareness and understanding of the larger community and the diversity of its people. To that end, TCTV provides communications resources to build a stronger community.

About Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 750 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press.

Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.”

Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.

Goodman is the winner of the 2007 Gracie Award for Individual Achievement for a Public Broadcasting Host, from American Women in Radio and Television, and is a 2007 honoree with the Paley Center/Museum of Television and Radio’s She Made It Collection, which “celebrates the achievements and preserves the legacy of great women writers, directors, producers, journalists, sportscasters, and executives.” She was the 2006 recipient of the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her daily reporting and groundbreaking work from Nigeria and East Timor has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored.

About the Book

Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement?

The answer: They are everywhere.

Standing Up to the Madness is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--and also offers advice on what you can do to help.

Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed.

WHO: Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman

WHAT: Benefit for KAOS 89.3fm & TCTV

WHEN: Sunday March 29, 5:30pm, doors open at 4:30pm

WHERE: Capitol Theater, 206 5th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501

TICKET COST/LOCATIONS: $10 General Admission
Tickets are available at Rainy Day Records, Traditions Fair Trade, at the door the day of show or online at buyolympia.com.

CONTACTS:
KAOS - John Ford, 360-867-6894 / fordj@evergreen.edu
TCTV– Deb Vinsel, 360-956-3100, dvinsel@tctv.net

Members of International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers Arrives in Early May

(Olympia and Tacoma, Wash.) The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers was formed almost five years ago out of a deep concern for “the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.” The Council, which includes spiritual leaders from across the world, assembles to pray, share ancestral wisdom and counsel the world from multiple perspectives of distinctive cultures.

The Evergreen State College welcomes four North American members of this council of leaders of nations. The Grandmothers will share their views on the environment, resiliency, peace and knowledge in a time of unprecedented global change.

Schedule

On Saturday, May 2, the week of events opens with the keynote presentation, the Traditional Salish Welcome Ceremony and Presentation by the Four Grandmothers from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., with reception and food provided by The Lucky Eagle Casino. The free, public event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Daniel J. Evans Library, 2nd Floor Lobby, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, Washington 98505.

During the Welcome Ceremony and keynote presentation, the elders will share their knowledge and experience of indigenous science, spiritual healing and ceremony, peace and prayer. The purpose of their conversation is to engage thought on the world’s spiritual, earthly, and cultural resources through examples from the experience of the grandmothers and from a deep reservoir of cultural wisdom.

On Tuesday, May 5, the visiting council members will pair up for two distinct, free public talks entitled “Ancestral Teachings for Times of Unprecedented Change.”

Mona Polacca and Rita Pitka Blumenstein will deliver their message at Evergreen’s Tacoma campus on May 5 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (This talk will be telecast live at Evergreen’s Olympia campus in Lecture Hall 1.) The Tacoma campus is located at 1210 6th Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98405

Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance and Council Chair Agnes Baker Pilgrim will speak on that same theme May 5 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Evergreen’s Olympia campus, Lecture Hall 1.

Anyone attending one of the previous events is invited to join in honoring and thanking the visiting council members at the Closing Ceremony and Reception on Friday, May 8, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Seminar II, E1107.

Visit this page for directions to Olympia and Tacoma campuses: www.evergreen.edu/tour

If you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation for this event, please contact Meredith at inocenc@evergreen.edu; (360) 867-6348 or TTY/TDD 360.867.6834.

About the Grandmothers

The concept of the council of elders is an ancient form of governance ruled by a circle rather than a hierarchy of command. Councils of elders are emerging in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. The four elders are here as North American representatives of an international council formed out of concern for the destruction of Mother Earth, indigenous ways of life, and the wellbeing of humanity. They will visit and teach at Evergreen, local schools, and in the wider South Sound communities. The first council gathering was a time of hope and inspiration. The grandmothers are women of prayer and women of action. Their traditional ways link them with the forces of the Earth. Their solidarity with one another creates a web to rebalance the injustices wrought from an imbalanced world; a world disconnected from the fundamental laws of nature and the original teachings based on a respect for all of life.

• Rita Pitka Blumenstein serves as the first certified tribal doctor in the state of Alaska. She is a Yup'ik mother, grandmother, great grandmother, wife, aunt, sister, friend, and tribal elder. Well known as a traditional healer, teacher, and artist, she has spent over forty years investigating, producing, and passing on many aspects of Alaska Native culture such as song, drumming, skin sewing, basketry, storytelling, and use of plants for dyes and medicinal purposes. She has traveled and taught in 167 countries.

• Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance is a Lakota keeper of the traditional ways, great grandmother, Native American Church elder, and bead worker. She lives with her sister, Beatrice Long-Visitor Holy Dance on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. With her sister, Grandmother Rita initiated the Council’s Youth Ambassador program. She is involved in the Grandmothers’ efforts to encourage the Vatican to rescind several Papal Bulls and edicts that set the stage for the "doctrine of conquest" that has had such far-reaching effects on the treatment of indigenous peoples.

• Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Chairman of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, is the oldest known living female member of her tribe, the Takelma Indians, originally from southern Oregon. An alumna of Southern Oregon University, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in Native American Studies, she is a historian, storyteller and cultural instructor. She has been honored as a "Living Treasure" by her tribe the Confederated Tribes of Siletz, and as a "Living Cultural Legend" by the Oregon Council of the Arts.

• Mona Polacca is a Hopi/Havasupai /Tewa elder. She has a Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University where she is working on her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary justice studies. She is also on the faculty of the Turtle Island Project, a non-profit program dedicated to promoting a vision of wellness by providing trans-cultural training to individuals, families, and healthcare professionals. Grandmother Polacca has worked on issues of Native American alcoholism, domestic violence and mental health for the elderly native peoples.

More information on the activities of the grandmothers at Evergreen from May 2 to May 9 can be found at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/springcolloquium/home.htm

More information on the International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers can be found at http://www.grandmotherscouncil.com

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The week of events is presented by the Willi Unsoeld Seminar Series, The Evergreen State College Diversity Series and the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, in collaboration with First Peoples’ Advising Services and academic programs across the college. 

The Willi Unsoeld Seminar Series welcomes distinguished visitors who reflect the values and philosophy of Willi Unsoeld, a founding Evergreen faculty member, philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. Unsoeld was well known for his first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, in which they made the first successful traverse of any Himalayan peak. For this feat, President John F. Kennedy presented them with the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society’s highest honor. The annual Unsoeld Seminar is endowed as a “living memorial” in honor of Willi Unsoeld who lost his life in an avalanche on Mt. Rainier in 1979.

The Diversity Series was established by Evergreen’s Office for Diversity Affairs to engage the community in conversations about multicultural equity and social justice. The series serves to remind us that our communities are comprised of many cultures, and that everyone benefits when we rely on varied ways of being, knowing, teaching and learning.

The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center opened on the Olympia campus of The Evergreen State College in 1995. The Center’s primary public service work is to promote indigenous arts and culture. In the beginning, the center focused on six local Puget Sound tribes and their artists; today staff work with indigenous artists throughout the Pacific Northwest region, nationally, and with other Pacific Rim indigenous peoples to promote indigenous arts and cultures through a wide variety of programs.

We are honored that the Lucky Eagle Casino will provide the generous donation of food for the reception following the Welcome Ceremony and keynote presentation on Saturday May 2.

Saturday April 25th, 2009 Reggae Fun to Follow Procession of the Species

After the Procession of the Species in downtown Olympia, The Evergreen State College is continuing the community celebration with Give Peace a Dance, a gathering of music of New Monsoon, a rock and experimental band form San Francisco, Kore Ionz, a reggae, rock and roots band from Seattle and Pachamama with afro-beat, reggae and ska from Los Angeles.

Tickets are $7 for students with ID (from any college or high school) and $10 general audience admission at the door. Advanced purchase tickets are available at a discount $5 for students, $7 general admission) from The Evergreen State College bookstore, Traditions Café, Rainy Day Records and BuyOlympia.com.

The event takes place at The Evergreen State College, College Recreation Center, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Parking is free on Saturday. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Dancing is optional, but encouraged. Bleachers are available for the audience as well.

Directions to the campus are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm The show is sponsored by The Evergreen State College, Student Activities; KAOS community radio, and MEChA.

For more information, please see http://www.evergreen.edu/activities/ or call (360) 867-6220.

The award recognizes professional distinction, regional and national leadership within NASPA, and extraordinary service. The acronym NASPA stands for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Costantino also was recently recognized with the Region V Fred Turner Award for Service to the Profession at the Western Regional NASPA Conference in November.  The Turner Award recognizes significant state and regional leadership, significant advancement of NASPA, and continuous service to NASPA for more than ten years.  Also in November, President Les Purce received NASPA’s Region V President’s Award for advancing the quality of student life over a sustained period of time by supporting student affairs staff and programs.

Representing over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses in 29 countries, NASPA is a leading voice for student affairs policy and practice.  NASPA members commit to serving college students by embracing core values of diversity, learning, integrity, collaboration, access, service, fellowship, and a spirit of inquiry.

NASPA members serve a variety of functions and roles, including positions as vice president and dean for student life, as well as professionals working within housing and residential life, student unions, student activities, counseling, career development, orientation, enrollment management, racial and ethnic minority support services, and retention and assessment.  

More information on NASPA awards can be found at
http://www.naspa.org/fdn/pillars.cfm
and
http://www.naspa.org/programs/awards/annual.cfm

Download the NASPA News Release: News Release PDF | News Release DOC

It takes five consecutive wins to claim the championship with the final game March 17. The Geoducks will play their first game in Branson against 11th-seeded Bluefield College of Virginia in the first round. The Geoducks will contend with the Rams at 11:45 a.m. PST on Wednesday March 11. All games in the NAIA tournament are available in live video stream format through the NAIA website: http://naia.cstv.com/.

For more information on the tournament and the full tournament bracket visit: http://naia.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/naia/sports/m-baskbl-div2/auto_pdf/2009Bracket_1st.

Thursday March 5, 2009, 7 pm

Sem II E1105 

A founding faculty member of The Evergreen State College, Willi Unsoeld was a philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. He was well known for the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, for which President John F. Kennedy presented them the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society’s highest honor.

Join members of the Evergreen community for a night of storytelling as we honor and remember Willi Unsoeld, who with student Janie Diepenbrock, perished in a slab avalanche on Mt. Rainier on March 4, 1979.

Note: While this event is not part of the Unsoeld Seminar Series, information on this year’s Series is located at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/springcolloquium/home.htm

All are invited; faculty, please consider announcing this to your students.

As the event grew and developed over time, it required an investment of hundreds of staff and volunteer hours each year, months of planning, and a net expense of about $20,000 annually. While Super Saturday will remain an important part of our campus history and will be missed by many, the decision to retire the event will allow us to redirect resources to other college priorities, which is especially important as we work to address significant state budget cuts.

In recent years the event drew an estimated 15,000-20,000 people to the campus, making it the single largest community event held on campus.

While Super Saturday is coming to an end, Evergreen's connections to its community continue. In addition to its primary role in providing higher education opportunities, some of Evergreen's other contributions include free and low-cost community events and performances, public access to facilities, and student volunteers' support for local organizations.

Donations to The Evergreen State College Annual Fund, supporting student scholarships, are gratefully accepted.

If a person can be judged by the lists in which he appears, Robert McChesney is shaking things up in America. For Evergreen alumni, he is a greener to be proud of and a credit to his alma mater:

• 2008 - Utne Reader's "50 visionaries who are changing the world"
• 2006 right-winger David Horowitz's "101 most dangerous professors in America"
• University of Wisconsin-Madison's top 100 classroom teachers
• 2001 Adbusters Magazine's "Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism.

This event presented by the academic program "Political Economy of the Media: U.S. Historical & Contemporary Realities," with support from "Beyond the News: Media, Theory and Global History," the Media Artist Studio, the Office of Alumni Relations and the Center for Sustainable Entrepreneurship.

Official Biography

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2008 the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their "50 visionaries who are changing the world."

In 2002 he was the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization and served as its President until April 2008, when he stepped down to devote more time to other interests.

McChesney also hosts the "Media Matters" weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on NPR-affiliate WILL-AM radio - http://will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/default.htm; it is the top-rated program in its time slot in the Champaign-Urbana area.

His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. McChesney has written or edited seventeen books. McChesney's most recent book is The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (Monthly Review Press); this is the companion volume to Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media (New Press, 2007).

In 2008, his 1999 book Rich Media, Poor Democracy was awarded the ICA Fellows Book Award, which recognizes books that "have made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication field, as well as the broader rubric of the social sciences, and have stood some test of time." McChesney's work has been translated into eighteen languages.

In 2001 Adbusters Magazine named him one of the "Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism." In 2006 right-winger David Horowitz included McChesney on his list of the "101 most dangerous professors in America." While teaching at Wisconsin, he was selected as one of the top 100 classroom teachers on the Madison campus.

In addition to his academic work, McChesney serves on the Board of Directors for several nonprofit and noncommercial media organizations. From 2000 to 2004 he served as co-editor of Monthly Review - www.monthlyreview.org - the independent socialist magazine founded by Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman in 1949. Prior to entering graduate school in 1983, McChesney was a sports stringer for UPI, he published a weekly newspaper, and in 1979 was the founding publisher of The Rocket, a Seattle-based rock magazine. At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in McChesney's hometown of Cleveland, the founding of The Rocket is credited as the birth of the Seattle rock scene of the late 1980s and 1990s. In his spare time, McChesney writes on professional basketball for a number of websites.

“Given the economy, this year will be more challenging for KAOS, as it will be for all non-profits,” said John Ford, station Development Director. “Thankfully, many listeners realize that KAOS provides commercial-free programming and community voices that they can’t get anywhere else, and it’s a service that requires them to pay their share. Our hope is to get more committed listeners to give at a level that fits their situation. Every donation at all levels still adds up to a stronger station for all KAOS listeners.”

All funds raised are used to support the programming and training activities of KAOS Olympia Community Radio. Celebrating 36 years of community service, KAOS has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service, offering a wide range of independent music, local and global news, and community information since 1973. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

A Queerly Disabled Employment Non-Discrimination Act:
A Few Cutting Remarks about Transgender Ex/Inclusion.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
7:00 p.m.

Recital Hall/Communications Building
The Evergreen State College - Olympia

Distinguished historian Susan Stryker surveys the history of transgender discrimination and activism in the United States in order to shed light on current controversy over the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Susan Stryker, PhD, is a researcher, writer, queer historian, artist, and a filmmaker. She was executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco from 1999 until 2003. In addition to numerous scholarship articles and magazine pieces, she is coauthor of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996); contributing editor of the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (1998); author of Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (2001); co-director of the Emmy Award-winning public television documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot of Compton’s Cafeteria (2005); co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Transgender Studies Reader; and author of Transgender History (2008). She held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair in women’s studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, 2007-08, and is now an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University.

Cal Anderson was Washington state's first openly gay legislator, serving in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and in the Senate from 1994 to his death in 1995. The Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series is a forum to capture the spirit of reasoned discussion of public policies and ideas that marked Cal Anderson's career. During his time in the legislature, he led the on-going battle for equal civil rights protection for gay and lesbian citizens and introduced many bills related to AIDS programs.  His wide-ranging commitment to public service included work for campaign finance and regulatory reform, motor-voter registration, veterans' issues, environmental protection and open access to government.  The Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series is funded by an endowment held by The Evergreen State College Foundation.

Contact Mary Ann at steelema@evergreen.edu or (360) 867-6106 or Jason Wettstein with questions.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to education. Evergreen has been noted as one of the nation’s top colleges by the Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, and US News & World Report. The book “Colleges That Change Lives” (www.ctcl.com) by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope, praises Evergreen as one of the three best liberal arts colleges on the West Coast. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) notes that Evergreen excels in areas that lead to student success. According to NSSE, Evergreen students read more, write more, study more and engage more actively with faculty and each other than at the vast majority of American colleges and universities. To learn more, visit www.evergreen.edu.

Learn More: Visit the MIT Web Pages

The grant will help defray the cost of variable speed drives that reduce the energy used by the two chillers that provide chilled water for air conditioning at Evergreen. The drive works by varying the speed at which the chiller runs depending on the amount of chilled water needed for the air conditioning load. The proposed chilled water system with variable speed drives has the potential for 27 percent or 226,442 kilowatt hours per year savings over the previous system.

In 2008, PSE provided more than $18 million in conservation and energy efficiency grants to businesses and organizations in their service area. The Evergreen State College has been a partner in PSE’s green energy program since October 2005.

Brought to you by Academic Advising, Center for Community Based Learning & Action, and Student Employment

Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., is an Arab-American writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist whose work has long been rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands region he affectionately calls "the stinkin' hot desert." He professor and Research Social Scientist based at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona--- his alma mater.

He teaches geography, as well as interacts with faculty and graduate students engaged in creative writing and ecology research. He continues advising or consulting with many non-profits--including the Renewing America's Food Traditions collaborative.

For his literary non-fiction, grassroots conservation and community-based ethnobiology projects, Nabhan has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, a MacArthur "genius" award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Pew Fellowship in Conservation and Environment, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, and a Quivira Coalition award for excellence in science that contributes to "the radical center."

His numerous books include: Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods; Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine; Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods; Arab/American: Landscape, Culture and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts; Salmon Nation; Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity; The Forgotten Pollinators, The Desert Smells Like Rain, Cross-pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry; Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture and Story; Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy; Coming Home to Eat and compiled and edited, Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions published by EcoTrust. Nabhan's books have been translated in five languages, and he has lectured at universities in Mexico, Lebanon, Peru, Oman, Guatemala, and Italy, including Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.

When not gardening, caring for heritage breeds of sheep and turkeys, he is active in the Order of Ecumenical Franciscans, the Orion Society and the local foods movement.

From: http://www.garynabhan.com/

Event sponsored by: The Evergreen State College Provost Office in conjunction with the Curriculum in the Bioregion Project; Sustainability and Justice associated programs; Greater Olympia Slow Food

Evergreen State College contact: Martha Rosemeyer, 360-867-6646

President Les Purce received NASPA’s President’s Award for advancing the quality of student life over a sustained period of time by supporting student affairs staff and programs. 

Representing over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses in 29 countries, NASPA is a leading voice for student affairs policy and practice.  NASPA members commit to serving college students by embracing core values of diversity, learning, integrity, collaboration, access, service, fellowship, and a spirit of inquiry.

NASPA members serve a variety of functions and roles, including positions as vice president and dean for student life, as well as professionals working within housing and residential life, student unions, student activities, counseling, career development, orientation, enrollment management, racial and ethnic minority support services, and retention and assessment.

More information on NASPA awards can be found at http://www.naspa.org/programs/awards/annual.cfm

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed effective at 3:30 p.m. today.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

The Evergreen State College Olympia campus will be open Wednesday, December 24th.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus will not open until 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 23rd.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed, Monday, December 22, 2008.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for updates on further potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed today, Friday, December 19, 2008.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for updates on further potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed effective at 3:30 p.m. today.

Please check www.evergreen.edu shortly after 6 a.m. tomorrow for an update on potential campus delay or closure on Friday, December 19, 2008.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus will not open until 10 a.m. Thursday, December 18th.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed effective at 3:00 p.m. today.

Please check www.evergreen.edu shortly after 6 a.m. tomorrow for an update on potential campus closure on Thursday, December 18, 2008.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

If you had an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Evergreen students scored the college strongly on the NSSE category Academic Challenge. They indicated that they spend more time preparing for class, engaging in coursework that requires synthesizing, analyzing, applying theory to practical problems, and making judgments about the value of information. They also reported reading more assigned texts.

Compared with other first-year and senior-class students who reported to NSSE, Evergreen respondents indicated that they more frequently gave class presentations and contributed to discussions in class. They also indicated that they more often worked with other students on projects during class and outside of class, as well as discussed ideas from reading and classes with others outside of class- all measures of Active and Collaborative Learning. In terms of Student-Faculty Interaction, Evergreen students more often discussed ideas from class with faculty members outside of class. Evergreen first-years and seniors were less likely to come to class underprepared and more likely to report that they worked harder than they thought they could to meet their instructors’ expectations. They also reported greater institutional support for their academic success than their counterparts at other institutions.

Evergreen first-year students and seniors were significantly more likely to have participated in several enriching educational experiences than students at other colleges and universities, engaging in more independent study and more frequent conversations with students who are different from themselves in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, or values. Seven-hundred and twenty-two four-year colleges and universities participated in the survey. Evergreen conducts the National Survey of Student Engagement annually as part of its ongoing institutional assessment plan. The National Survey of Student Engagement works on the premise of providing a more complex reading on quality, with recognition that holistic assessments of many disaggregated factors provide for more accurate and useful comparisons on issues of concern for student learning than rankings systems that set institution wide averages of institutional resource measures.

While Evergreen also does well in traditional regional and national rankings, Evergreen’s regular participation in the National Survey of Student Engagement provides an additional national context and multi-year trend data through which to examine educational practices, emphases, and challenges. The survey had high participation at Evergreen with a response rate of near 30 percent of the 1550 students sampled.

Transcript
"In The Know" Radio

November 20, 2008

<<Cue Thomas Dolby, "Airwaves">>

Host: Let’s face it. The world could use a little more KAOS. Now, thanks to a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), it’s going to get exactly that.

This week the CPB awarded Evergreen’s community radio station $78,872 to add HD transmissions alongside its current signal at 89.3 on your FM dial. To find out what all this means, we talked to John Ford, KAOS’s director of development, long-term volunteer, and tireless promoter and champion.

<<Roll interview tape KAOS11.20.2008ed>>

Host: So John, what’s all this really mean? What’s HD and why is it good for KAOS?

John Ford: First of all, let’s be clear. HD doesn’t stand for anything. That’s just a marketing thing. HD is the name of a digital format for radio broadcasting. Adding HD transmission capability will let KAOS broadcast additional ‘channels’ alongside our regular signal.

Host: Do analog listeners need to worry about upgrading their equipment to keep their beloved KAOS coming in strong?

JF: Any FM radio will still get 89.3 FM, but HD radios will get that plus the new digital channels, let’s call them “KAOS 2,” “KAOS 3,” and so on. You’ll have to have HD equipment to get the new channels, but plain old FM will always be there—a far more equitable arrangement, especially for folks with limited resources. Unlike the digital TV push which eliminates analog TV and forces everyone to get new sets or subscribe to cable, this does not force folks to “switch.”

Host: So, I assume that with more airwaves, KAOS will be growing. Can we also assume that the station will keep its community-centered philosophy and its core reliance on volunteers for programming?

JF: Definitely. Those additional channels will be dedicated to additional programming. Personally I’m very excited about the prospect of more [broadcast] space for more service to the community—and more volunteers

Host: I understand the $78,872 will pay to purchase and install new transmission equipment over the next couple of years during the CAB remodel. Does this funding come with strings attached?

JF: Well, the total costs for the project are budgeted closer to $100,000—we’re still hammering out the final figures—so it will require additional funding from the station. And we may ask our listeners to help us meet that goal. We’ll be letting folks know our needs as we get further into the project.

Host: Thanks so much and good luck with going digital.

JF: Thank you. It’s a big win for non-commercial, community radio in the South Sound area.

Host: That was John Ford and I talking earlier today. In addition to Mr. Ford, who spearheaded the grant effort, we want to congratulate Andy Corn, Jerry Drummond, Tom Mercado, and Rob Rensel for their contributions to the project. If all goes according to plan, KAOS will broadcast its first official digital program within a year of returning to its new and improved station, which will be constructed during the CAB remodel in 2009-10.

<<Cue Joni Mitchell, "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio">

***** The above is a somewhat fictionalized retelling of a true story.*****
Radio Copy by John McLain, Academic Grants Manager at The Evergreen State College

More on KAOS

Evergreen’s KAOS radio station recently received top honors from the Princeton Review as one of the nation’s best college or university radio stations. Development director John Ford said he believes it’s the station’s strong community-oriented service ethic, combined with a focus on local and independent music that makes KAOS distinctive among others surveyed. The station emphasizes local speakers and issues, allowing content to be shaped by the needs of its public. KAOS gets the opportunity to grow creatively in ways larger stations cannot, due to its unique non-commercial and educational status. According to Ford, KAOS programming showcases a wide variety of voices never heard on commercial radio.

The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at The Evergreen State College is pleased to announce its 2008 national grant recipients. Twenty four grants were awarded to Native artists, organizations and tribes throughout the United States.

Four grants up to $5,000 were awarded through the National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists program and twenty grants up to $2,000 were awarded through the National Native Creative Development Program.  The Longhouse’s national re-granting program is made possible by the Ford Foundation’s IllumiNation Program, which was established to strengthen Native arts and cultures throughout the United States.

The National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists program is designed to create opportunities to promote Native arts and cultures within urban and rural Native communities throughout the United States.   The grant provides an opportunity for a Master Native Artist to teach other Native artists, whether established or emerging, within a community setting.  Organizations may apply for funds to support a master Native artist to be in residence for the purpose of teaching a form of visual or performing arts to Native artists within the community.

2008 National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists include:

M. Cochise Anderson (Chickasaw/Mississippi Choctaw), Ed Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock), Clarissa Hudson (Tlingit) and the Yakama Nation Language Program

The National Native Creative Development Program (NNCDP) addresses the professional development needs of individual artists.  Grants are awarded to artists that are interested developing a website, traveling to artist gatherings, and purchasing tools, supplies, materials, and studio time, etc.

2008 National Native Creative Development recipients include:

Marcus Amerman (Choctaw), Shawn Brigman (Spokane), Raven Chacon (Diné), Victor A. Charlo (Bitterroot Salish), Kelly Church (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians), Wade Fernandez, Sr. (Menominee), Erin Genia (Sisseton-Wahpeton), Pauline Hillaire (Lummi), Anna Hoover (Aleut), Clarissa Hudson (Tlingit), Janice Jackson (Tlingit/Tsimshian/Haida), Sonya Oberly (Nez Perce), Sandra Osawa (Makah), Michael Peters (Squaxin Island), Shaun Peterson (Puyallup), Joseph Seymour, Jr. (Squaxin Island), Cedar Sherbert (Santa Ysabel Iipay), Ronald Washington (Northern Arapaho), Melanie Yazzie (Diné) and Rona Yellow Robe-Walsh (Chippewa-Cree)

For more information about the Longhouse grant programs, visit http://www.evergreen.edu/longhouse/grantprograms.htm

- Wesley L. Creel, president and founder of Colleges of Distinction

Olympia, WA – The Evergreen State College recently received the designation “College of Distinction” in the newly-released 2008-2009 edition of Colleges of Distinction. Unlike traditional numeric-based college guidebooks, this book recognizes and appeals to students’ unique interests, realizing what may be “the best” college for one student, may be vastly different than the best for another.

Approximately 40 colleges in each of the six geographical regions in the United States were selected as meeting four key criteria that make a college truly exceptional: engaged students, great teaching, vibrant communities, and successful outcomes. These are the “hidden gems” of higher education institutions - as determined by a review board of academicians, guidance counselors, and parents.

"Obtaining a bachelor’s degree shouldn’t be a means to an end,” says The Evergreen State College director of admissions, Doug Scrima. “The colleges included in this guide book are truly invested in transformative learning. Prospective college students and their family members will appreciate this guide because it cuts through the ordinary to help you find the extraordinary."

Colleges of Distinction were required to go through an application process to be considered, be nationally recognized by education professionals, employ outstanding teachers that provide innovative learning experiences, have an active campus and community that allows for personal development, and be highly valued by employers for outstanding preparation.

GEAR UP – an acronym for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs – has been an Evergreen tradition since 2002. GEAR UP grants are designed to increase the rates of college attendance by working with students beginning in middle school. The national program is focused on reducing poverty by supporting students’ efforts to prepare for college and encouraging retention in schools.

The second of two GEAR UP grants received by Evergreen will be used to serve Clover Park and Oakville school districts. Approximately 2,800 students have participated in GEAR UP to date. The new six-year grant will provide for direct services to another cohort of students -- approximately an additional 2,800 students --- including mentoring programs, information for families and professional development for teachers. The work relies heavily on partnerships with school districts and twenty six community groups.

“The whole purpose of GEAR UP, starting with the sixth and seventh grade is to help students graduate and enroll in college,” says Dr. Kimberly Lees, GEAR UP director. “And, this is not just about the students, the parents are a critical piece of the support system in the lives of students,” adds Lees.

“GEAR UP helps the parents navigate the complicated process of choosing a college and gaining financial aid, as well as making vocational choices,” says Lees. “We give the parents the nuts and bolts information and start them off early in planning, including college visits, tutoring, and considering career options. Our grant is meant to help us go out and enlist the resources of community partners.”

Dr. Phyllis Lane, dean of academic and support services notes that the program “provides help to restore communities, enhance cultural resources and share what we know.” She notes that previous GEAR UP funds have resulted in a development of a culturally aware and relevant curriculum that did not exist for the Confederated Tribes of Chehalis.

“GEAR UP allows us the opportunity to change the course of history,” says Lane. “We have the opportunity to help students to learn, help their families to learn, and to help the students help themselves.”

Carletta Garraway, educational specialist at Lake High School in Clover Park, says GEAR UP “creates vision and possibilities. The one thing I have learned in working with the kids is that they can learn that possibilities are unlimited.”

Garraway emphasizes that GEAR-UP’s goal is to create both college readiness and “college-worthiness.”

“We do not sell kids short,” explains Garraway. “We create hope for our students where everyone else is giving up on them. We bring resources to the table and build avenues to explore and build confidence among students. We also focus on the parents. . . . We are the navigating agents, and help families navigate through the educational process so students are able to be more successful.”

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement, commitment to community service ethics and professions, and emphasis on putting learning into action.

For more information, please visit www.evergreen.edu/gearup

Bill Ransom has completed a new book of poetry and prose called The Woman and the War Baby. The collection draws upon Ransom’s experiences as a firefighter and advanced life support emergency medical technician during the 1980s and 1990s in the Olympic Peninsula’s Jefferson County, his participation and familial adaptation to the damage caused by warfare, his volunteer work with humanitarian groups in Central America, and his personal mental travels and experience of atmospheres replete with action and implication.

Published by Blue Begonia Press, the book features cover art and images by Evergreen faculty member Joe Feddersen and Ransom’s translations of poetry by faculty member, Zhang Er. Ransom received a grant for the book from the Seattle-based nonprofit arts organization, Artist Trust. The Woman and The War Baby includes poems from his published book, Last Call, and his CD, War Baby. The book is Ransom’s seventh poetry collection.

Ransom, Evergreen’s academic dean of curriculum, has also published numerous other books, including a book of poetry, Finding True North from Copper Canyon Press, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 1973, Ransom founded the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference at Centrum, the arts colony located at Fort Worden State Park. Held each summer, this gathering is renowned for its intensive, weeklong writing workshops, which are taught by notable authors, as well as its readings, panel discussions and social events.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

She is appearing at 8 p.m. Wednesday at The Evergreen State College Experimental Theater, 2700 Evergreen Parkway N.W., Olympia.

More information: 360-867-6833, or online at Evergreen Expressions

UPDATE: The Lynda Barry event has SOLD OUT:
To satisfy the overwhelming request for tickets we are offering an alternative – a live feed/overflow option in the Recital Hall.
Tickets for this will be $4 and available at the Communications (COM) Building box office beginning at 6:30 pm, night of show.

She will speak 7 p.m., Thursday, November 13, in the Recital Hall, Comm. Bldg.

Sponsored by Common Bread and The Evergreen State College President's Office

Tice will speak on the theme of this year’s event Thanking Those Who Serve, providing insights into life after the traumatic experience of combat. College officials will also unveil a new Evergreen Veterans Medallion, which will be presented to Evergreen students, staff and faculty who have served in the U.S. armed services at a ceremony later in the academic year.

Severely wounded in one of the most horrific battles of the Vietnam War, Hamburger Hill, Tice has been called a National Treasure for his work to help veterans through their experience of war and recovery. His personal story of familial stress, increasing recognition of lasting effects of war and work at reconciliation with the past provides an inspiring story to anyone who wishes to better understand the lives of veterans today.

Since retiring from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in December 1998, Tice has been writing, consulting and presenting on PTSD treatment, as well as providing direct clinical treatment with physically disabled combat veterans from WWII to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Steven's therapeutic approach is to treat PTSD as an emotional malady and not a mental illness. In Tice’s view, symptoms of PTSD are expectable outcomes when individuals participate in or are exposed to traumatic events outside the norm of human experience.

About Steven Tice

Steven Tice, MA, CTS received his Master of Arts degree in 20th Century US Social History from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1981, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from UNLV in 1976. He has been certified as a trauma specialist through the international Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists since 1992. Steven is a Washington State Registered Counselor.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia
College Recreation Center Gym

Free and open to the public

Representatives of more than two dozen graduate schools from Washington, Oregon and beyond will be on hand to field questions and provide counseling. Learn about Evergreen’s Master of Public Administration, Master in Teaching, Master of Environmental Study and Master of Education programs as well as a wide range of other graduate degree opportunities. The fair will feature nearly 50 degree options from the Northwest and across the country. Some of the participating schools include the University of Washington, University of Puget Sound, Seattle University, St. Martin’s University, Prescott College, Willamette University, Lewis and Clark College, and Vermont Law School.

Prospective graduate students will learn about undergraduate requirements, the importance of standardized tests, transcripts and other credentials needed for graduate school admission, and interdisciplinary study options.

For information, visit www.evergreen.edu/career/events, call 360-867-6193 or email.

John “Jack” Longino, a nationally recognized specialist in Neotropical Myrmecology, the scientific study of ants, joined researchers from the University of Connecticut, the Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet of Jena, Germany; and the University of California in providing this analysis. The Neotropic zone includes more tropical rainforest than any other ecozone, extending from southern Mexico through Central America and northern South America to southern Brazil, including the Amazon rainforest. This geographic area contains the vast majority of terrestrial biological diversity.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages). This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to http://www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness
(and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances. We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency. Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM

Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions (see http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/information/Pages/SchoolClosures.aspx)

Weather conditions in Washington can vary widely from location to location. Students, faculty and staff should always evaluate the conditions where they are and make their own decisions about travel.

Steps to register for e2Campus alerts:

1. Visit: www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness
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'A Gathering of Waters' explores the effect of human controls and demands on rivers and celebrates the people who work to conserve river resources. Irland’s first Gathering project, begun in 1995, was conceived as a symbolic carrying of Rio Grande/Rio Bravo's waters from source to sea, to re-establish people's connection with the river and with each other along its 1,875 mile length. Irland’s new project focuses on the Nisqually River - the only river in the United States that begins within a National Park and ends in a National Wildlife Refuge. Basia Irland, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, Department of Art and Art History has created other “Gatherings” in New Mexico, Colorado, Canada and England.

This project is generously supported by a gift from the Tom Rye Harvill Award.

Irland will be available to answer the public’s questions at her illustrated lectures on Tuesday October 21, 4 pm in Lecture Hall 1 and Wednesday October 22, 10 am in the Recital Hall, Communications Building.

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/gallery

Voter Registration Drive
Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 2008

As the 2008 election nears, it is time to let your voice be heard. Take the time to join us on Red Square next week and join in the fun! Voter Registration Deadline is Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.

Who Should Register to Vote?

• Anyone who has moved to a new residence within the city, county, state and from out-of-state.
• If you just turned 18 years old or will be 18 years old by the Nov. 4 election.

Where Can I Register?

• The GovDocs/Maps Desk located at the Library, 3rd floor
• The GovDocs/Maps and HeadCount.org tables on Red Square during the week of Sept. 29
• Olympia and Tacoma Campus: Sept. 29 – Oct. 3
• Online at www.vote.wa.gov

Voter Registration Drive Music Events on Red Square

• Live Broadcast on KAOS
• Monday Sept. 29, 3-5 pm
  Music by High Ceiling
• Wednesday Oct. 1, 1-3 pm
  Music by Z Kamp

• Use the nearest exit. Do not use elevator.
• Move quickly, remain calm.
• Take personal items (keys, purse, wallet, coat, shoes)
• Secure any hazardous materials.
• Close door when you exit.
• Go to evacuation assembly point designated by evacuation plan.
• Check in with officials, report any injuries, casualties, and hazardous conditions.
• Do not leave campus until determined that roads and bridges are safe.
• Do not re-enter buildings until advised by safety personnel.
• Check in with officials before leaving.

Building Fire

• Activate the nearest fire alarm.
• Evacuate the building following evacuation plan.
• Call 9-1-1
• If trapped in building, stay near floor to avoid toxic fumes, try to signal emergency personnel.

Wildfire

• Activate the nearest fire alarm, call 9-1-1.
• Close windows, do not evacuate building unless safe to do so.
• If building is on fire, follow evacuation procedures.

Earthquake

• If indoors, stay calm, don’t rush for the door.
• Drop, Cover, Hold under a table or desk - not in a doorway – turn away from windows.
• Protect your head and neck with your arms, close your eyes.
• Keep away from objects that might fall.
• After the shaking stops, check yourself and others for injuries and move toward the nearest exit. Remember that aftershock can occur at anytime.
• If outdoors, move to clear area away from trees, poles, buildings, wires.

Power Outage

• Turn off and unplug computers and other voltage sensitive equipment.
• For information about a prolonged outage, dial 867-6000 opt 1 for campus status announcement, listen to radio KGY 1240 AM/96.9 FM.

Suspicious Person

• Do not physically confront the person.
• Do not let anyone into a locked building or office.
• Do not block the person’s access to an exit.
• Call 9-1-1. Provide as much information as possible about the person, direction of travel, etc.

Suspicious Object

• Do not touch or disturb object.
• Call 9-1-1.
• Notify your supervisor and/or the building coordinator.
• Be prepared to evacuate.
• Follow evacuation procedures.

Shooting Incident

If shooter is outside building:

Turn off lights, lock windows and doors, close curtains.

Get on floor out of line of fire.

Move to a central area if safe.

Follow directions of uniformed police.

If shooter is inside the building:

If safe to exit, flee.

Call 9-1-1 to give location.

Do not pull fire alarm.

If flight not possible, lock doors, get on floor, remain silent.

Barricade door with something heavy.

Hide behind something that stops bullets.

If shooter comes into class/office:

Call 9-1-1 if it is safe to do so.

Hide behind something that stops bullets.

Fight the shooter, rush with lots of people, throw things, use improvised weapons to take the shooter to the ground.

If caught outside in the open:

Hide behind something that stops bullets. Wait for emergency personnel.

Run if safe, make a run for it, do not run in straight line.

Fight the shooter.

General:

When police arrive, put your hands up to show that you are not a threat to them.

US News and World Report also included The Evergreen State College as a Top College in the West and noted the national reputation of its learning communities and service learning programs. Evergreen ranked highly overall and was featured in the section, A+ Schools for B Students, a grouping for colleges that look beyond grades to other indicators of student success, also described as schools with “first rate programs and strong reputations.”

Evergreen is among The Best 368 Colleges selected by The Princeton Review. In addition to recognizing Evergreen’s academic quality, Evergreen scored well on The Princeton Review’s new Green rating—a measure of environmentally-related practices, policies and course offerings. The Evergreen State College scored a nearly perfect “green rating” of 98 of a possible 99. More information is available here: http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx?uidbadge=%07 and here: http://www.princetonreview.com/green/press-release.aspx?uidbadge=%07.

Sierra magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, named Evergreen as one of the nation’s top 10 “coolest” schools for its efforts to address global warming and engage the campus in environmental conservation. Sierra’s list, “10 That Get It,” shows that schools of all sizes are taking action on global warming. Top schools earned points for policies in 10 categories: buildings, energy, food, investment, procurement, transportation, curriculum, environmental activism, waste management and overall commitment to sustainability. A perfect score in every category would give a school 100 points. Evergreen ranked No. 5 with a score of 88. More information is available here: http://www.sierraclub.org/greencolleges.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

The Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS) Project had been in existence for seven years in 1998 when organizers, from groups as disparate as Junior League of Olympia, Capital Mall (now Westfield Capital), St. John's Episcopal Church and the Community Action Council made a desperate plea for supplies over Mixx 96.1’s airwaves. The response from listeners was immediate, and it spurred Mixx 96.1 KXXO co-owner and station manager Toni C. Holm (Evergreen, 1979) to action. In 1999, the station initiated an all-day radio marathon broadcast from outside the station’s Rockway-Leland Building studios at the corner of State and Washington in the heart of downtown Olympia.

Listeners responded enthusiastically from the beginning and 10 years later, LRS is able to help more kids than ever before, providing them with the school supplies, clean clothing, calculators, and backpacks needed for school. Holm herself has been in the trenches from then on, serving on the LRS board and, since instituting a workout routine some years ago, doing much of the heavy lifting for the group. (This may surprise some of her fellow alumni from her days at KAOS where she needed help to pick up anything over 10 pounds.)

"When we start the drive, we never know what's going to happen." Holm says. "It's a completely grassroots effort, with people responding to help other people, all locally. Yet in a year when everyone is feeling the pinch economically, our community responded more generously than ever with over $12,000 and a ton of supplies. We have a big horn to reach people and I love that we can put it to use in this way. There are going to be lot of happy kids with new backpacks & supplies this year! We live in a great community!"

Donations can be made year-round via checks to The Little Red Schoolhouse Project and mailed to: P.O. Box 6302, Olympia, WA 98507. Please call Community Action Council, 360-438-1100 extension 143 to volunteer.or see www.redschool.org for more information.

“Evergreen has a rich tradition of contributions to the local community,” explained Shortt-Sanchez. “Community to Community Action Day has been connecting Evergreen students to local groups working for community needs for 18 years. The event provides a community service – it’s expected to provide more than 1000 hours of service this year alone – and a learning experience for students new to the college. They get to know their community, understand its needs a little better and reflect on the positive contributions they can make.”

Students from Evergreen’s Community Connections college transition program will be participating in Community to Community Action Day as a required part of their coursework. Academic programs are supported to integrate service learning by a grant from Learn and Serve.

“The organizers of Community Connections have been working closely with the CCBLA on this event,” explained Evergreen faculty member Elizabeth Williamson. “We feel that helping students make a connection to the world beyond the campus is absolutely essential to helping them begin to put theory into practice, and we hope it will set an important precedent for them as they continue their work at Evergreen.”

Campus housing residents from Evergreen’s Green Living and Sustainability House – who choose to live with other students dedicated to helping their community and living sustainably – will participate as well.

Shortt-Sanchez said that, in addition to a wide range of student volunteer activities, during the last academic year Evergreen students contributed over 19,000 hours of community work through the Students in Service Americorps program. Students in Service is a program of the Washington Campus Compact. Community minded student workers receive tuition awards as recognition for community action. This provides the chance for students to integrate their studies with community service and to be compensated.

Community members are welcome to work alongside Evergreen students on Community to Community Action Day. For more information on volunteering, contact Ellen Shortt-Sanchez at 360-867-6859 by Monday Sept 22, 2008.

The project launched a service learning gathering Monday August 11 at The Evergreen State College. Participants from St. Martins, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympic, Centralia, Green River, and Clark Colleges joined Evergreen faculty and staff to investigate poverty and flood relief issues. Local organizations POWER (Parents Organized for Welfare and Economic Rights) and Lewis County Long Term Recovery Organization presented compelling stories of families struggling with poverty and communities affected by December 2007 floods.

This network of service learning efforts at seven local colleges will strengthen our regional ability to contribute to making our community better. The project plans to share the story of the power of student learning that makes a difference.

When: Wednesday, September 24, 12:00- 5:00

Who: Evergreen students new to college who participating in orientation week activities and college transition program “Community Connections” will join Center for Community Based Learning faculty and staff for an afternoon of service learning.

What: Community to Community: A Service Learning Day Sponsored by Evergreen’s Center for Community Based Learning and Action, funded by Washington Campus Compact Learn and Serve grant.

This year’s theme supports the Hunger Free Thurston County Coalition (Thurston County Food Bank, GRUB, and Left Foot Organics). Students are asked to lend their muscle and mind to:

“MAKE THURSTON COUNTY HUNGER FREE”

Sites include:

• Thurston County Food Bank – TCFB works closely with rural food banks in Rochester, Tenino and Yelm, providing direct food assistance and technical support. TCFB serves over 27,000 individuals annually.
• Lincoln School Garden – Elementary school garden used for school projects and lunches. Enhance the beauty of the school environment and familiarize students with the principles of our natural world.
• Yelm Earthworm – Provides countless individuals and companies worldwide, with valuable information and a comprehensive line products to assist them in vermiculture, vermicomposting, horticulture and organic farming.
• Olympia Salvage- Supports recycling building materials by salvaging and re-using materials for construction.
• Rachel Corrie Foundation –Programs that foster connections between people, building understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities particularly the Palestine – Israeli conflict.
• Habitat for Humanity- South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with those in need of affordable housing in the Olympia area. Join community volunteers at the east-side building site.
• Left Foot Organics- Non-profit organization promotes self-sufficiency for people with developmental disabilities through growing organic food.
• USDA – Contribute to and learn about Habitat and Nisqually river restoration.

More information about this designation is available at www.bestworkplaces.org.

For more information about the National Center for Transit Research located at the University of South Florida and administered by the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) please take a few moments to visit their sites: http://www.nctr.usf.edu/ 

Nearly $1 Million given by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Lumina Foundation to Support Partnership for Native Student Success at Muckleshoot Tribal College.

Olympia, Wash. – The Partnership for Native American College Access and Success—a collaboration of five Washington state higher education institutions—has received $292,000 from the Gates Foundation, $195,000 from the Lumina Foundation and nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to strengthen postsecondary curriculum for Native students in Washington and create a clear pathway to a bachelor’s degree for Native Americans in Muckleshoot and Tulalip communities.

Grants from the Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation will support the two-year effort, which began in June 2008. The work builds upon ongoing work through The Evergreen State College’s Enduring Legacies Project, which established the initial partnership between Evergreen and Grays Harbor College to serve reservation-based students. That project also developed teaching resources and culturally relevant curriculum in the form of case studies on key issues in Indian country.

The partnership includes Antioch University, The Evergreen State College, Grays Harbor College, Muckleshoot Tribal College, and Northwest Indian College. It will use lessons learned in the process to suggest a policy agenda to improve preparation for college and seek greater public investment in postsecondary education for Native students in Washington. A report on Indian education in Washington will be produced for wide distribution under these grants. Among other things, the new report will provide up-to-date information on programs available to serve Native students across the state.

According to Michelle Aguilar-Wells, co-director on the grants and director of Evergreen’s Reservation-Based Community-Determined Program, the project represents an unusually deep partnership between institutions. “What brings us together,” she says, “is our commitment to high-quality education for Native students.” Antioch University has offered the only Native teacher education program in the state at Muckleshoot Tribal College for some years. In the fall, Antioch will expand the graduate programs offered. “Evergreen provides a strong program leading to a bachelor’s degree that prepares students for various careers in public service within or outside of tribal communities,” says Aguilar-Wells. Northwest Indian College and Grays Harbor College provide the foundational lower-division coursework with Grays Harbor College emphasizing online courses. “By working together,” adds Aguilar-Wells, “we can strengthen all of our programs.”

“We have been developing strong and diverse programs through partnerships since our start in 1996,” said Louie Gong, educational resource coordinator at Muckleshoot Tribal College. “But these new grants will take the concept of partnership to a whole new level,” he adds.

One of the innovations that will begin in the fall is a joint writing center that students in all of the different programs can use. “There’s just nothing like this elsewhere, and we’re really excited about it,” adds Gong.

Cheryl Crazy Bull, president of Northwest Indian College, said that the project provides many opportunities for their tribal college. “We will be exploring new approaches to education, especially in the first year of college, which is so critical to student success. And we will also be looking at how to improve inter-institutional advising and administrative functions from a student and tribal point of view.”

About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. More information is available at: www.gatesfoundation.org.

About Lumina Foundation for Education

Believing that education is the foundation for individual opportunity, economic vitality and social stability, the Lumina Foundation's goal is to raise the proportion of the U.S. adult population who earn college degrees to 60 percent by the year 2025, an increase of 16 million graduates above current rates. To achieve this ambitious goal of increasing postsecondary degree attainment, Lumina Foundation, in partnership with other stakeholders, is focusing on three main milestones of progress: student preparedness, student success, and college productivity. Based in Indianapolis, the Foundation is led by Jamie P. Merisotis. For more information about Lumina Foundation for Education go to www.luminafoundation.org.

Researchers at The Evergreen State College in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Texas A&M have been working to increase food safety by reducing the populations of E. coli in the guts of sheep and cattle. The goal of the research is to increase understanding of the complex predator-prey relationship between bacteria (the prey) and bacteriophages (the viral predator). The research could lead to safer food.

E. coli O157:H7 is a dangerous bacterial food pathogen that occurs naturally in the guts of livestock without making them sick. E. coli is easily passed from farm animals to humans. The bacterium causes food poisoning, sickness, and sometimes death in people who eat tainted meat or contaminated produce or water.

Andrew Brabban and Betty Kutter, microbiologists at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, have been studying tiny E. coli predators known as bacteriophages, which attack E. coli bacteria. The Evergreen State phage biology lab was established in 1973 and together Kutter and Brabban have more than six decades of research experience on phages.

Brabban, Kutter, and colleagues have uncovered bacteriophages that attack various strains of E. coli naturally in cattle or sheep’s stomach. Recent results appeared under the title “Prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 and O157:H7-infecting bacteriophages in feedlot cattle feces” in the October issue of Letters in Applied Microbiology. The research is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Phage Biotics, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

By using phage as a natural predator, it may be possible to better target and tame E. coli and increase the safety of food. Using bacteriophages provides a potentially cheap and broadly applicable way to treat cattle that offers advantages over traditional antibiotics.

Phage treatment is more specific to E. coli, which means it is less likely to encourage resistance in other harmful bacteria and less likely to kill useful bacteria. Also, much like the bacteria, the bacteriophage is easily transferred from one infected individual to another, resulting in a more robust solution to E. coli infections.

Economic impacts could also be significant. “E. coli contamination results in waste of meat, and ultimately wasted meat costs consumers,” says Brabban. “Hundreds of millions are also spent to treat E. coli infections,” he adds.

But while economics are important, healthier food is the top priority of the research. “It would be very rewarding if we could come up with an increased understanding or an application that leads to safer food down the line,” says Brabban. “We all would like food to be safer.”

“Being only a mile from Puget Sound, we take great pride in our environmental farming practice”, says Melissa Barker, Evergreen Farm Manager. “As a regional certification program, Salmon-Safe offers us independent verification that we are meeting our environmental goals and will help us communicate that to our students and the greater community”.

The Evergreen Farm was determined to be Salmon-Safe in the programs’ six main categories: protecting waterways and wetlands, preventing soil erosion, conserving water through irrigation efficiency, minimizing impacts from animals, using natural weed and pest control methods in lieu of toxic chemicals, and promoting on-farm biodiversity.

“The Evergreen Farm serves as a valuable resource for student involvement in organic agriculture and sustainable farming practices” says Larry Nussbaum of Stewardship Partners, the organization coordinating the Salmon-Safe program in Washington. “As the first college farm to be Salmon-Safe certified, Evergreen will serve as a working model to educate the public about both environmental farming practices and credible third-party eco-labeling programs.

The Salmon-Safe program was founded in Oregon in 1997 and has since been recognized as one of the most reliable eco-labels in the country, alongside other well known labels such as Certified Organic and Fair Trade. Stewardship Partners, a non-profit conservation organization, launched the program in Washington in 2004 and is working with farmers in across a variety of sectors including vineyards, orchards, dairies, and row crops. Over 150 farms in Oregon and 50 farms in Washington have been certified Salmon-Safe.

More info is also available at www.stewardshippartners.org.

Dr. Purce, who is currently completing a three-year term which began in 2006, will begin his second three-year term Jan. 1, 2009.

The Council of Presidents is the chief governing body of the NAIA, and is responsible for all fiscal matters of the organization, strategic direction, membership, and operational policies put into action by the association’s various governing councils and committees.

Dr. Purce has served as president of Evergreen since July 2000.

The Cascade Collegiate Conference is comprised of 11 institutions in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Members include Cascade College, The College of Idaho, Concordia University, Corban College, Eastern Oregon University, The Evergreen State College, Northwest University, Northwest Christian College, Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University, and Warner Pacific College.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is the governing body for athletics programs at its nearly 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. The long-held mission of the NAIA is to promote the education and development of well-rounded students and productive citizens through intercollegiate athletics. The association offers equitable access and opportunities for participation in its 23 national championship events held annually throughout the country.

Today, the NAIA strengthens its commitment to student-athletes and strives to enrich their college experience by supporting academic achievement and character development. NAIA Champions of Character is the association’s innovative flagship program designed to instill character values in student-athletes, coaches and youth in the communities it serves.

“Students at Evergreen want to know where their food is coming from. Campus Dining support of the organic farm is an impressive step towards increasing our local food production,” said Sharon Goodman, director of residential and dining services at The Evergreen State College. “The arugula that I helped picked one morning was on the salad bar in the dining hall by lunch time. It felt great to tell students that I had, first-hand, harvested the arugula that very day and that it was fresh, local, organic, and was grown for us to all enjoy. It made me and reminded me that Evergreen really is a special place."

The new greenhouses offer more square feet and increased projected supply for residential dining needs. Additionally, the structures have also increased the economic potential of the organic farm and ecological agriculture efforts on campus. To date, the college has already bested its goal for 2010 by purchasing more than 25%-30% percent of its food from local and organic sources. “With the new greenhouse structures, it is likely that Evergreen could reach 32%-37% percent production from local and organic sources,” said Craig Ward, food service director at The Evergreen State College.

“Dining services needs most of its produce October through June while the typical growing season in Olympia is June through October,” said Melissa Barker, manager at The Organic Farm. “Using the greenhouses to extend the season is very important.”

“It also allows for a year-round agricultural teaching space,” added Barker. Evergreen offers instruction in organic agriculture on The Organic Farm. The Evergreen State College’s three-acre organic farm produces sustainable food for dining services, an on-campus farm stand, Community Supported Agriculture efforts, local food banks, and charities

For driving directions, please visit http://www.evergreen.edu/tour.

The memorial service will also be streamed live at www.evergreen.edu/streams.

The Board of Trustees resolution from the June 12 Emeritus Member conference ceremony captured some of Patrick’s vast contributions to the college:

Upon unanimous recommendation of the Faculty of The Evergreen State College, and

In recognition of 24 years of outstanding service to The Evergreen State College as a Member of the Faculty and Academic Vice President and Provost; of his contributions to the curriculum in the areas of Irish studies and philosophy; of his scholarly leadership; of his ability to maintain the tension between collaboration and free-flowing creativity; of his leadership in hiring a diverse faculty with substantive multicultural experience;

In appreciation of his commitment to both process and content; of his genuine concern for students; of his principles of forgiveness and community; of his deep commitment to social justice; of his thoughtful work with both colleagues and students while engaging in difficult subjects; of his brilliant lectures; and of his storytelling and poetry;

The Board of Trustees does hereby confer the title of Emeritus Member of the Faculty upon Patrick Hill, with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.

At 8:00pm, KAOS and OFS present Seattle’s PURE Cirkus at the historic Capitol Theater in a night of daring delight; from the audacious to the exquisite. 

Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for KAOS/OFS members, kids under 12 just $5.

PURE Cirkus is a performance art and event production company that spans multiple genres and themes within the live entertainment and circus field.  Their productions focus on Corporeal storytelling and Variety acts merging elements of street performance, Cirque Noir or "Dark Cirkus", live theater, circus acts, dance, burlesque, tribal art and live music, with more modern forms of performance such as grinder performance and fire manipulation.

Featuring stunning costumes, height-defying stilt walkers and aerialists, illusionists, comical clowns, jaw dropping acts of demented bravery by the geeks, freaks and acrobats, the clash of both the macabre and mystical side of the three ring circus is brought to life through the human body as PURE Cirkus.

Also performing, the Penny Dreadfuls, formerly known as Femme de Fabrique; and the music of Vince Brown and his Fish Tale Hoppin’ Barley Feetwarmers!  All freaks, geeks, and families welcome!  This fun time event is a fundraiser for the Olympia Film Society and KAOS-fm Olympia Community Radio!  It’s an all-ages show with a 21+ beer garden in the upstairs mezzanine.

About KAOS

Celebrating its 35th year on the air, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio is licensed to The Evergreen State College. KAOS has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-five year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County’s largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

About the Olympia Film Society

The Olympia Film Society is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance film appreciation within the community by promoting alternative films and by aiding and encouraging the development of allied arts. The Society also works to foster, promote and present visual media and performing arts. OFS cultivates a diverse volunteer and membership supported organization and is the largest of its kind in the northwest. Now in its 28th year of operation, they enliven its community by presenting and fostering the development of independent film, music, and other arts in the South Puget Sound.

Who: PURE Cirkus, the Penny Dreadfuls, Vince Brown & Romanteek
What: Benefit for KAOS 89.3fm & Olympia Film Society
When: Saturday June 14, 8:30pm, doors open at 8:00pm
Where: Capitol Theater, 416 Washington St. SE, Olympia, WA 98501
Ticket Cost/Locations: $15 General Admission/$10 for KAOS or OFS members, children under 12 $5.00. Available at Phantom City Records, Capitol Theater box office and buyolympia.com
Contacts: KAOS - John Ford, 360-867-6894 / OFS - Audrey Henley, 360-754-3635, ext. 3

Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Location: The Evergreen State College campus, Lecture Hall 1
Time: 7 p.m.
Cost: free

A locally-sourced dinner dinner will be served from 5 - 7 p.m. at the Evergreen cafeteria, The Greenery, on the ground floor of the CAB.

About the Speaker:

A sought-after conference speaker, Salatin addressed a wide range of issues from "creating the farm your children will want," to "making a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country."

Salatin's speeches are both conviction-based and humorous, akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations. He describes his occupation as "mob-stocking herbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization."

Background:

In 1961, William and Lucille Salatin moved their young family to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, purchasing the most worn-out, eroded, abused farm in the area. Using nature as a pattern, they began the healing and innovation that now supports three generations. Today the farm represents America's premier non-industrial food production oasis.

For more information about Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms: http://www.polyfacefarms.com/default.aspx

This event is sponsored by Olympia Climate Action, Olympia Food Coop, Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute, Olympia Slow Food, and The Evergreen State College

The event is free and open to the public. Super Saturday runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 14. This year’s event will feature more than 40 new arts and crafts booths.

Super Saturday performances cover genres from African Marimba to Celtic to folk to children’s' music and classic rock, and include bands such as Mukana Marimba, Fiddlehead, Adrian Xavier, The Tanglefoot Cloggers, Samara Dancers and Legend Heart.

Sponsors for Super Saturday 2008 include The Pacific Northwest Mushroom Festival June 28th and 29th in Lacey, KFMY 97.7 FM-The Eagle, Mixx96 96.1 FM KXXO, The Olympian, Toyota of Olympia, Puget Sound Energy, Squaxin Island Tribe Tourism Department, American Family Insurance of Tumwater, and Tumwater Costco.

Getting to Super Saturday

Parking is free for the event and Intercity Transit is also running a shuttle service to the Super Saturday festival. Direct round-trip service runs every 15 minutes between 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. from the park and ride shuttle location at the Department of Licensing, 405 Black Lake Boulevard at 4th Avenue on June 14, 2008. Travel is also available every 15 minutes between 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Intercity transit Route 41, departing downtown Olympia from the Olympia Transit Center at State and Washington Street on June 14, 2008. More information on commuting options is available at www.intercitytransit.com.

Visit http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm for a map of the campus and directions to The Evergreen State College.

The Science Carnival is free and open to the public. The event offers hundreds of presentations from Evergreen science students with an emphasis on demonstration, hands-on participation and fun.

This year, the Chemistry Club will attempt to make a giant baking soda and vinegar volcano erupt. The Kids in Chemistry event will feature ice-cream making and many other hands-on science experiments that will engage the imagination of school children. Participants can choose from as many as a dozen presentations at any given time. Each presentation lasts 30 to 60 minutes and many popular topics will be repeated over the two days.

Anyone with an interest in the physical world will enjoy the Science Carnival, the largest of its kind in Washington State. The popular event is great for middle and high school students, including home school students. Demonstrations will cover chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, marine science, optics, health science, food science, computer science, and much more. In the spirit of interdisciplinary education -- a hallmark of the Evergreen learning experience, the event will include more than a dozen science-related art demonstrations in a wide range of media.

Preview the carnival online at http://academic.evergreen.edu/events/sciencecarnival/index.html

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Science at Evergreen is taught by nationally and internationally recognized faculty - not graduate students - in small classes with hands-on opportunities for undergraduate research and access to sophisticated scientific equipment, including a scanning electron microscope and ultra-high-end analytical instruments.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action

Friday, May 23rd at 8pm
College Recreation Center

DOORS OPEN AT 7:15PM

Tickets

Students w/ID, Staff and Faculty $5.00 advance - $10.00 at door at the Evergreen Bookstore Only

General Admission $15.00 advance - $20.00 at door available at:

www.ticketswest.com

Rainy Day Records
301 5th Avenue SE
Olympia 360.357.4755

Ted Brown Music Company
6228 Tacoma Mall Blvd.
Tacoma 800.562.8938

Wall of Sound
315 E Pine Street
Seattle 206.441.9880

For more information, contact S & A Productions: 360.867.6220

2008 Graduation Ceremony

Friday, June 13, 2008

1:00 pm on Red Square—Rain or Shine

No tickets required for the ceremony

A sociologist, historian and professor who taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont, James Loewen co-authored, Mississippi: Conflict and Change, which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction, but was not approved for use in the Mississippi school system because it was considered too controversial and placed too much focus on racial issues. This led to the lawsuit, Loewen v. Turnipseed, which was considered by the American Library Association to be a historic First Amendment Case, and one of the foundations of our “right to read freely.”

Loewen’s book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, is based on his two-year study at the Smithsonian Institution of twelve American history textbooks. The book focuses on alleged errors or deliberate omissions in history textbooks but also on the lack of controversy that he claims would make learning history exciting. The book sold 800,000 copies and continues to inspire teachers to encourage students to challenge – rather than memorize – their textbooks.

For more information, please visit:  
http://www.evergreen.edu/graduation/

While the new electric vehicle is not necessarily sporty, sexy, or speedy, it is efficient and the right vehicle for Evergreen. The ZX40ST, the first street-legal electric vehicle to arrive on campus, is produced by Miles Electric Vehicles (http://www.milesev.com). The model ZX40ST work truck comes in white and carries up to 1,100 pounds with a top speed of around 35 miles an hour.

Mark Kormondy, grounds and motor pool manager at Evergreen sees the truck as “a very convenient way to get into all locations on campus,” as well as important means to produce fuel savings and not produce additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Evergreen will introduce four more electric vehicles by the end of June says Paul Smith, director of facilities services. The additional electric cars will be financed in part with a grant from the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (ORCAA).

Executive Director of ORCAA Richard Stedman says that his organization’s intent is to “prime the pump to get some of these technologies out to institutions that can use them... rather than gas-powered or diesel-powered trucks and service vehicles.”

The college is considering more electric vehicles, capable of handling various loads and carrying more people to replace some of its gasoline vehicles, says Smith. “We’re evaluating the options now and we are hoping to add as many as five more electric vehicles within the next biennium,” he adds. Smith says he sees the cars as part of a larger effort to “further our goal of achieving carbon neutrality.

With these larger goals in mind, operators of the unobtrusive white work truck are downshifting the carbon economy and turning heads. “The car gets a lot of attention around here,” says Kormondy “even if it is almost totally silent.”

Synergy: The Seventh Annual Sustainable Living Conference is being held at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The dates for the 2008 conference are Monday, May 19th through Friday, May 23rd. This conference has grown to be a powerful platform to engage and address the intertwining themes of Ecology, Design, Culture, Health, and Social Change.

Synergy is organized by a non-profit coalition of student organizers. The title of the event reflects our belief that the solutions to the world’s problems can only be solved though collaboration, where the whole becomes more then the sum of it’s parts.

This year’s conference will include presentations by notable leaders in their respected fields.

Dr. Mitchell Joachim of New York based non-profit Terreform, will be presenting a keynote lecture on the future of ecological urban design at 6PM on Thursday May 22nd in Lecture Hall 1. Dr. Joachim, a MIT Media Lab graduate, is best known as being the creator of the Fab Tree Hab. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car with the MIT Smart Cities Group.

Paul Stamets will be giving a talk entitled, “how mushrooms can save the world” at 5pm on Wednesday May 21st. In business since 1980, Paul Stamets has run Olympia based Fungi Perfecti, a family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people.

Also presenting will be Executive Director of Puget Sound Partnership, David Dicks, and Executive Director of Olympia Waste ReSources, Dan Daniels, in addition to many other speakers and workshops over the 5 day event. Other topics to be covered during the conference include permaculture, the global food crisis and green building.

Each day will feature live music on Red Square in the center of campus, broadcast live from 12-1pm on KAOS 89.3 as part of the first annual Red Square Concert Series. The music events are presented by The Evergreen Musicians Club.

Synergy is a free event and open to the public, all are encouraged to attend. Parking is $2.00 per day. Synergy is funded by the Evergreen State College Services and Activities Fee Allocation Board.

More detailed information, speaker bios and event times and locations at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

Keith Kessler has been appointed to a term effective March 7, 2008, ending September 30, 2013. Kessler is a personal injury attorney with Strimatter Kessler Whelan Withey Coluccio. He served as president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association in 1990 and was the chair of the Washington Trial Attorneys Political Forum from 1993 to 1995. He is a member of several other professional organizations including, the Washington State Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and served and has served on the executive committee of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Washington Chapter since 1995. In addition, he has received numerous awards including, Outstanding Plaintiff Trial Lawyer, Washington Defense Trial Lawyers in 2002, and Trial Lawyer of the Year, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association in 1994.

Kristin Hayden has been appointed to a term effective March 31, 2008, ending September 30, 2009. Hayden is the founder and director of OneWorld Now!, an award winning and nationally recognized global leadership program for high school freshman and juniors. She works with the World Affairs Council of Young Professionals and served on the steering committee for the Washington Coalition for International Education.

The board is the governing body for The Evergreen State College.

(Olympia, Wash.) Civil rights leader and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. James M. Lawson will be speaking at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 5 at Temple Beth Hatfiloh, 201 8th Ave SE in Olympia.  Rev. Lawson will talk about building a community that both values activism – to promote better quality of life and greater equity among citizens – and ensures civility and respect for the rights of all.  The event is free and open to the public.  It is sponsored by the City of Olympia, The Evergreen State College, The Hispanic Women’s Network, Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, participating members of Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, The Port of Olympia, Unity in the Community, and Veterans for Peace.  For directions to the temple, visit http://www.bethhatfiloh.org/directions.html

Lawson is a leading figure in the civil rights movement. On the eve of his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world."

Lawson, along with King, helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960. While a Vanderbilt Divinity School student in the early 1960s, he utilized nonviolent protests, in the tradition of Gandhi, in an effort to stop downtown Nashville segregation at lunch counters. As a result of his activities, Lawson was expelled from Vanderbilt. Thirty-six years after his expulsion, Vanderbilt honored Lawson with a Distinguished Alumnus Award for his actions.

In 1961, Lawson coordinated the Freedom Ride, and was the advance staff person for the Birmingham campaign in 1963. He coordinated the Meredith march in Mississippi in 1966, and participated in the 1961-67 Chicago march efforts. Lawson served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for 14 years, and was chair of the strategy committee for the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, which drew national attention. King was assassinated while supporting that effort.

Lawson, a retired Los Angeles Methodist pastor, has remained outspoken and active in fighting for peace and against racism throughout his career. Rev. Lawson is a lifelong advocate for positive social change through nonviolent means and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. In Los Angeles, he hosted a weekly call-in show, "Lawson Live," where he discussed social and human rights issues affecting minority communities. He spoke out against racism, and he challenged the Cold War and U.S. military involvement in Angola, Cuba, and Central America. Even after his retirement, Lawson protested with the Janitors for Justice in Los Angeles, and with gay and lesbian Methodists in Cleveland. 

(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College welcomes Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of today’s premiere leaders in science, astronomy, and education to Olympia for a presentation and question and answer session on April 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at Evergreen’s College Recreation Center (CRC). Renowned astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and host of PBS’s Nova ScienceNow, Dr. Tyson is a leading voice in astronomy who has appeared alongside Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The presentation is being offered in cooperation with KCTS9 Television and the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.

Tickets for the April 29 presentation are on sale now. The public can purchase tickets by phone at (360) 867-6833, online at www.buyolympia.com/events, or in person at The Evergreen State College book store, Rainy Day Records in Olympia, or the Communications Building Box Office at The Evergreen State College. The latter is open from noon to 3 p.m. on weekdays. Advance tickets are $20 for reserved section seating (not available at the door), $10 for adult general admission ($13 at the door) and $5 for student general admission ($8 at the door). Student prices apply to youth under age 16 or anyone with valid student ID (e.g. high school or college students). KCTS9 members receive a discount when they purchase online at www.buyolympia.com/events.

Tickets are being sold on a first come, first serve, space-available basis. Neil deGrasse Tyson enthusiasts are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance and arrive early on April 29. The box office will open at 5:30 p.m. Event parking after 5:00 p.m. is free for this event and on this night only. Group discounts for groups of 20 or more are available by calling Pat Barte at (360) 867-6128.

Noted among TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Tyson is described as “The Carl Sagan of the 21st century—as long as you envision a Sagan who’s muscular, African American, and as cool as his predecessor was geeky.” In the same article, Tyson is referred to as “the great explainer of all things cosmic.”

Dr. Tyson’s latest book Death by Black Hole covers topics from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology to the movie industry’s less than perfect efforts to get its night skies right. Renowned for his ability to blend scientific knowledge, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while sharing his infectious excitement for our universe.

Dr. Tyson will speak on a wide range of topics familiar to audiences and readers, including the wonders of astronomy, science and math literacy, the connections between science and the humanities, civil discourse in regard to science, and other topics in science and society.

The Unsoeld Seminar Series brings distinguished visitors to The Evergreen State College campus who reflect the values and philosophy of Willi Unsoeld, a founding faculty member, philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. Unsoeld was well known for his first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, in which they made the first successful traverse of any Himalayan peak. For this feat, President John F. Kennedy presented them with the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society's highest honor. The annual Unsoeld Seminar is endowed as a "living memorial" in honor of Willi Unsoeld who lost his life in an avalanche on Mt. Rainier in 1979. For more on Neil deGrasse Tyson visit: http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/ The Evergreen State College campus is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway N.W. in Olympia, Washington. For a campus map, visit: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour

Dining service provider ARAMARK is helping The Evergreen State College in its efforts to provide local, nutritious, and organic foods to students.

From Purple Marconi Peppers to Patty-Pan Flying Saucer Squash, purchasing levels for inimitable and tasty, local and organic foods are growing with help from a $16,000 donation from the company. According to Sharon Goodman, director of residential and dining services at Evergreen, the college has already bested its goal for 2010 by purchasing more than 42 percent of its food from local and organic sources. 

With completion of the new greenhouse structures and first planting in early February, it is likely that Evergreen could reach 47 percent production from local and organic sources, says Food Service Director, Craig Ward. 

Bringing the new green house structures online will also increase the economic potential of the organic farm and ecological agriculture efforts on campus. “Basically, we are helping to develop another revenue stream for the farm,” says Ward. “The additional purchases we foresee in February should build income as well as assist in Evergreen’s educational effort,” he adds.

Previous greenhouse structures were damaged by storms in December 2006. ARAMARK’s contribution along with funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will mean replacement and expansion of greenhouse structures, meaning more square feet and increased projected supply for residential dining needs.

By reducing transportation emissions, sourcing food locally also will likely contribute to The Evergreen State College’s goal of reducing its carbon footprint and reaching climate neutrality by 2020.

Dining services needs most of its produce October through June while the typical growing season here is June through October, says Melissa Barker, organic farm manager:  “Using the greenhouses to extend the season is very important.”

“It also allows for a year-round agricultural teaching space,” adds Barker.  Evergreen offers instruction in organic agriculture on the organic farm.  The Evergreen State College’s three-acre organic farm produces sustainable food for dining services, an on campus farm stand, Community Supported Agriculture efforts, local food banks and charities.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kenji Yoshino is the author of the award-winning book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Human Rights, a groundbreaking critique of current civil rights law and a vision for a new direction.  A specialist in constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and law and literature, he has published work in The Advocate, The Boston Globe, The Nation, The New York Times, Slate, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post, as well as in a wide variety of academic journals.  He is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and former deputy dean at Yale Law School.

For more information call 360.867.6100 or www.evergreen.edu or www.kenjiyoshino.com

Cal Anderson was appointed to the Washington state House of Representatives in 1987, where he was elected to three full terms after completing his original appointment.  In 1994, Seattle's 43rd district elected him to the state senate where he served until his death in 1995.  Washington state's first openly gay legislator, Cal Anderson called himself "a Democrat who happens to be gay."

The Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series is a forum to capture the spirit of reasoned discussion of public policies and ideas that marked Cal Anderson's career.  Anderson labored for campaign finance and regulatory reform, motor-voter registration, veterans' issues, environmental protection and open access to government.  He introduced many bills related to AIDS programs and led the on-going battle for equal civil rights protection for gay and lesbian citizens.

The college convened a campus forum on February 19 to discuss the incident, answer questions and begin the process of addressing related issues.  Approximately 300 students, faculty and staff attended. 

“The range of emotions I have gone through from just being flat sad, to disappointed to angry, to violated, have just swung back and forth in me,” Purce explained, “because I think about when you students first came to this campus, the promises we made to you and to your parents about what this place was and what we strive for it to be, and to have that kind of event occur in our house caused me great pause…While we may never know everything about this event, one thing I know and we all have to know is that what happened is not acceptable by any standard.”

President Purce announced a moratorium on student-sponsored concerts and other events that involve substantial safety and security considerations until processes are improved.

“We aren’t having any more concerts until we can get our house in order,” Purce said. “We have to ensure that we have the appropriate kinds of security and safety on campus and a revisiting of our policies as they relate to all aspects of approval of concerts, so that we can be assured that our house is safe.”

The college will convene a committee of students, faculty and staff to review policies and procedures for planning and implementing campus events. Recommendations will be forwarded to the Vice President for Student Affairs.

As the group is being formulated and convened, Phyllis Lane, Dean of Student and Academic Support Services, in consultation with Art Costantino, Vice President for Student Affairs, will determine which events will be allowed in the short-term. While all events will be evaluated for security needs, college-sponsored lectures and art exhibits, for example, will continue as planned.

Purce also repeated his intention that the college will pay for the damage to the Thurston County Sheriff’s vehicle destroyed in the incident.

At the forum, Evergreen Police Services officer April Meyers, who responded to reports of a fight at the concert and made an initial arrest, explained the timeline of events from her perspective. Others shared differing views of how the incident unfolded and expressed a broad range of concerns related to relationships with campus police, respect for diversity on campus and other issues of campus climate.

The college will also refer this specific incident to its Police Services Community Review Board – a body of students, faculty and staff charged with reviewing law enforcement issues and concerns on campus – to assess the actions of Evergreen Police Services related to the incident.

According to Costantino, Evergreen is planning a follow-up campus forum at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27 in Lecture Hall 1 to continue discussion and begin the work to develop longer term strategies related to both to this incident and other issues of shared concern that affect safety and quality of life on campus.

If you have information that would help in our investigation, please contact Police Services at 360-867-6832. 

Our campus community is shocked and concerned by the violence that occurred following the Dead Prez concert at The Evergreen State College on Thursday, February 14. A large crowd had a confrontation with police after the arrest of a concert attendee who was suspected of assault. Two police cars were damaged, one severely. Some individuals, both in the crowd and among police, suffered minor injuries. The event was over by the early morning hours on Friday. Only a small proportion of students was involved in or directly affected by the incident.

We have launched a police investigation to determine the facts and hold responsible parties accountable.

This incident is not representative of the philosophy or character of The Evergreen State College. It not only runs counter to our values of respect and civility, it casts a shadow on the outstanding academic work of our students and faculty. Evergreen has earned a national reputation for academic excellence, innovative interdisciplinary education and alumni success in graduate school and careers. This event distracts from those successes.

Evergreen Police Services is leading an investigation of the incident with support from the Thurston County Sheriff’s Department. We will also be addressing the incident in a campus forum on February 19.

If you have information that would help in our investigation, please contact Police Services at 360-867-6832. 

(Olympia, Wash.)  The State of Washington Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) voted unanimously on January 16 to reapprove the Master in Teaching Program (MIT) and the Professional Certificate Program at The Evergreen State College in Olympia.  Both programs were reapproved for five years based on demonstrated and even “exemplary” compliance with state standards.  The Board also approved Evergreen’s request to offer the new, separate, more rigorous Middle Level Math and Middle Level Science endorsements which lead to being highly qualified to teach these subjects in grades four through nine.

Evergreen’s MIT program is the first teacher preparation program in the state to receive approval to offer these newly adopted endorsements.

The PESB conducted an in-depth on-site evaluation and gave the Evergreen MIT program “exemplary” marks in more than half a dozen key areas including overall program design, quality and effectiveness of its Professional Education Advisory Board, field experience and clinical practices, collaboration with P-12 schools, experience working with diverse faculty, and recruitment, admission and retention, including outreach to and inclusion of students of color.

In its accreditation report, the PESB noted praise for Evergreen’s MIT program and students from local school districts.

“District administrators and school administrators lauded (Evergreen) MIT candidates’ abilities to work with all students due to their coursework and field experiences,” the report noted.  “In general, public school personnel find the extensive field experience exceptional. One principal commented that the two student teaching experiences that MIT candidates receive is ‘paramount.’ When asked if she hires MIT students, she stated, ‘I hire ‘em like hotcakes!’

According to program director Sherry Walton, Evergreen’s MIT graduates have an exceptional record of success in teaching.  “Three of our students were honored as Outstanding (New or Young) Art Educator of the Year in 2006 and 2007, another was recognized as Outstanding Environmental Educator of the Year in 2003-04 and many more have been recognized for excellence in teaching and education.”

“Our MIT program is not only producing exceptionally qualified teachers, we’re also helping to fill specific needs in this state in high demand areas including math, science and English as a Second Language,” noted Walton.

Walton explained that the Evergreen MIT is a two-year, full-time program that leads to a master's degree and Residency Certification.  She said it is aimed at people who have a bachelor’s degree and want to become teachers.

“In the program, faculty and students work together to develop the knowledge and skills to effectively support the development of the diverse learners who attend our public schools.  We also have a unique emphasis on social justice and collaborative teaching and learning.  Our distinctive interdisciplinary approach produces teachers that are well grounded in educational theory and practice, including an understanding of a broad range of student learning styles and teaching approaches.”

For more information about the MIT program at The Evergreen State College, visit www.evergreen.edu/mit.

The Evergreen State College Offers Open House for Aspiring Teachers

(Tacoma, Wash.)  Evergreen’s Master in Teaching (MIT) program is holding an open house for prospective students at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 11.  The event will be held at Evergreen’s Tacoma Campus at 1210 6th Avenue.

Teachers from the Tacoma/Lakewood area who graduated from Evergreen’s teacher preparation program will be at the open house to share their experiences and answer questions. Staff members will also provide information about curriculum, application requirements and financial aid.

For more information about the open house, contact Maggie Foran at 360-867-6559, email foranm@evergreen.edu, or visit www.evergreen.edu/mit.

(Tacoma, Wash.)  Evergreen’s Master in Teaching (MIT) program is holding an open house for prospective students at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 11.  The event will be held at Evergreen’s Tacoma Campus at 1210 6th Avenue.

Teachers from the Tacoma/Lakewood area who graduated from Evergreen’s teacher preparation program will be at the open house to share their experiences and answer questions. Staff members will also provide information about curriculum, application requirements and financial aid.

For more information about the open house, contact Maggie Foran at 360-867-6559, email foranm@evergreen.edu, or visit www.evergreen.edu/mit.

You can also call the main campus switchboard at anytime, 360-867-6000 and press 1 to hear the operating status of the Olympia campus.

Stations in Aberdeen - 1320 AM, Centralia - 1170 AM, Shelton - 1030 AM, as well as KIRO 710 AM and KOMO 1000 AM are notified.

Evergreen's Tacoma campus follows the Tacoma School District decision.

Students, faculty and staff should always evaluate the conditions where they are and make their own decisions about travel. In Washington, weather conditions can vary widely from location to location, sometimes just miles away.

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All films are free, open to the public and will be shown at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. For screen times, guest speakers and location visit www.evergreen.edu/sesame.

For more information call (360) 867-6724 or email SESAME.

"We've designed a flexible and affordable program to help teachers improve their skills, advance in their careers and take on new leadership roles in the education community," said program director Magda Costantino, Ph.D.

Costantino said the approximate tuition cost for the 40-46 credit, seven quarter program is under $10,000 for Washington residents. "That makes it an excellent value for working teachers," Costantino noted.

Costantino said that in addition to a core curriculum, teachers will also deepen their knowledge in mathematics or ESL education in preparation for state endorsement testing.

"The Master in Education at Evergreen will provide excellent professional development opportunities for teachers in the South Sound region," says Randy Spaulding, Higher Education Coordinating Board director of academic affairs. "Evergreen's proposal was very timely in that it responds to several strategies included in Gov. Chris Gregoire's Washington Learns report, such as the need to build expertise in math and science teaching; improve learning opportunities for English language learners; and encourage diversity and cultural understanding."

"The program builds on the strength of the current Master in Teaching program and Evergreen's teacher professional development activities, and will allow teachers to improve their teaching practice and add additional endorsements in either math or ESL – both of which are in high demand right now," adds Spaulding.

The program will begin with a full-time summer session in July and August and continue with part-time evening and weekend classes through the school year.

Evergreen is offering a series of free information sessions on the new M.Ed. program in February:

• Feb. 6, 3-5 p.m., The Evergreen State College, Seminar II Bldg., Room E 3123
• Feb. 13, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Rochester High School Library, 19800 Carper Rd., Rochester
• Feb. 20, 3-5 p.m., Shelton School District Office Conference Room, 700 S. First St., Shelton
• Feb. 27, 3-5 p.m., Olympia Timberland Regional Library, 313 8th Ave. SE

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/med, or call 360-867-6639.

The Series will continue on Tuesdays through February with presentations by artists Blake Haygood, Claude Zervas, Adriene Cruz and Melissa Shiff as follows:

February 5, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1- Blake Haygood   is an artist, curator and co-director of Platform Gallery and has lived in Seattle since 1992. His current paintings and prints involve machinery parts of undeterminable scale floating in space without a horizon and in constant states of decomposition and regeneration. http://www.blakehaygood.com/

February 12, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 - Claude Zervas' artwork uses technology and a variety of media to explore representation of landscape, social ecology, and memory. He creates 2D, 3D, and time-based work using video or custom computer programs.  http://claudezervas.com/

February 19, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 - Adriene Cruz moved to Portland from Harlem in 1983, where her artwork turned increasingly toward creating brilliantly colored and adorned quilts. She pieces together richly patterned materials in rhythmic arrangements that are stately as well as exuberant, structured as well as improvisational, deeply moving on a spiritual level as well as simply enjoyable for their sheer beauty. http://www.adrienecruz.com/

February 26, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 - Melissa Shiff is a video, performance, and installation artist who specializes in utilizing Jewish myths, symbols and rituals in the service of social justice and activism as well as engaging with issues of cultural memory. http://melissashiff.com/index.html

Evergreen Gallery - Artist Lecture Series
www.evergreen.edu/gallery

Chris Jordan Photographic Arts
www.chrisjordan.com/ 

With funding and assistance from partners including the The Evergreen State College, Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board, The Wild Fish Conservancy People For Puget Sound, the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Restore America’s Estuaries program, an undersized culvert at the mouth of campus’s Snyder Creek will be removed and replaced by a 14-foot wide box culvert. The cost of the culvert project totals $214,000, and is covered by contributions from The Evergreen State College, the Salmon Recovery Funding Board, and the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program.

The new culvert will restore passage for fish species such as coho salmon, chum salmon, and cutthroat. These fish will once again gain access to almost one mile of spawning and rearing habitat. The process will also restore the natural processes of sediment, wood, and water transport.

Bulkheads, barrier culverts, and other shoreline obstructions represent threats to salmon habitat throughout the Puget Sound, and this project represents a potential model for actions around the Sound to restore fish access to critical breeding and rearing habitat. Restoring these habitats also has wider ecosystem benefits beyond the benefits for salmonids because it restores the ecological processes that shape diverse habitat structures. The shoreline of the College is one of the largest remaining stretches of undeveloped shoreline in south Puget Sound and thus restoration adjacent to that shoreline provides an opportunity for significant impact.

Snyder Creek flows into Snyder Cove at the northern end of The Evergreen State College Campus. Work will take place in Snyder Cove during Spring and Summer 2008. Pending the results of the feasibility study work on bulkhead removal should begin in Summer 2009.

Dan Grosboll, an Evergreen State College alumnus and now South Puget Sound Habitat Restoration Coordinator for People For Puget Sound, says, “We see this as a great opportunity for the Sound, and a good example of a public-private partnership that can bring benefits for the school as well as the environment. This is a great educational opportunity as well because students are welcome to get involved in the restoration and monitoring and we will be working with faculty members on various aspects of the project,” says Grosboll.

The total funding for the bulkhead removal feasibility study part of the project is about $60,000 with funding from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Restore America’s Estuaries program, Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program, and People For Puget Sound.

The Evergreen State College, Olympia campus will be hosting a series of daytime workshops on January 30, 2008, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Evergreen State College is a proud participant in Focus the Nation, a nationwide campaign to bring communities together through the help of colleges and universities in order to find solutions to global warming issues.

For more information on daytime events on area campuses and evening events at the Washington Center, visit http://focusthenation.evergreen.edu.

(Olympia, Wash.)    The Evergreen Fund for Innovation supports pioneering efforts by members of the Evergreen community for projects that will shape the college’s future.   The award was established in 1996 in an effort to keep Evergreen on the leading edge of higher education.   Two winning teams were announced the 2007-2008 academic year.  

The team of Sally J. Cloninger, Evergreen faculty; Peter Randlette, Evergeen adjunct faculty; Randy Stilson, Evergreen adjunct faculty; and Jules Unsel, interdisciplinary media faculty librarian were awarded the Evergreen Fund for Innovation award for their project to establish The Evergreen Visual History Archive.    With this project, team members will work to preserve the visual and aural media record of Evergreen’s academic mission and accomplishments since the college’s inception.

The team of Robert Cole, Evergreen faculty; Dylan Fischer, Evergreen faculty; and Alexandra Kazakova, Evergreen student were awarded the Fund for Innovation Award for their proposal Carbon Fluxes in Our Forest and Carbon Offsets as a Piece of Evergreen’s Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2020.  The research team will work to examine and address the efficacy of purchasing carbon offsets and will also address the carbon uptake and carbon-offset potential associated with the management of the un-built Evergreen State College forest reserves.   

Successful proposals focus on innovative ideas that may be sustained after the award and represent the best that Evergreen has to offer in interdisciplinary and cross-divisional collaboration.   Awards for 2007-2008 also addressed the challenges and opportunities posed by The Evergreen State College Strategic Plan Update available at http://www.evergreen.edu/president/docs/strategicplanup07.pdf

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.