Joye Hardiman, Ph. D.

"At the Tacoma Campus, we seek to create a space that allows students to deepen their sense of identity, service and community. Our commitment is to our students' expanded capacity to be, do and belong."

Joye Hardiman, Ph. D.

After attending the Undergraduate Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, Dr. Hardiman earned a B.A. in Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo, 1968, and a Ph.D. in Applied Literary Studies and Urban Education at the Union Institute, 1986. She is an alumna of Harvard University's Management Development Program and a founding member of Ancestral Artworks, Inc.

Dr. Hardiman is the Executive Director of The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus, a position she has held since 1990. She is an educator, scholar and life-long learner. "I value community, family, service, hospitality, spirituality, reciprocity and integrity. My teaching philosophy focuses on using ancient wisdom to explore and envision solutions to contemporary problems."

She is an International Executive Board Member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations. She was a summer Fulbright Scholar and has done extensive field research on the African presence in global history in Egypt, India, Ghana, Kenya, the Yucatan, Trinidad, the United States and Canada, using literary and popular culture analysis as her primary methodology.

Dr. Hardiman has been an active participant in many state and national higher education institutional, curriculum and pedagogical reform efforts. She was a core facilitator and faculty for the Washington Center for Improvement of Undergraduate Education's Community College Minority Student Success Project, the Ford Foundation Cultural Pluralism Summer Institute, the FIPSE National Learning Dissemination Institute and the PEW Foundation.

A brilliant conceptualist, inspirational speaker and gifted storyteller, Dr. Hardiman is a frequent keynote speaker, a sought-after workshop and conference participant and a trained improvisational artist. Her interests are travel, research, the arts, traditional and popular culture, graphic design, Africana Studies, nature and reading. She has served as a frequent consultant to the Tacoma Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Washington State Historical Museum and WCIC's Youth Information Technology Conferences.

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