The Evergreen State College Top Questions

Evergreen is best known for it's focus on interdisiplinary learning. At Evergreen you do not take four classes with one subject each, you take one class with 2-5 subjects that is taought by multiple faculty. This allows ideas to be more firmly cemented in a real-life perspective.

Evergreen is best known ofr experimental education; developing your own curriculum, elevating your education without tests and GPAs and grades as well as empowering the students to achieve whatever their mind and imagination is determined enough toexecute.

Freedom to study what one wants to.

It is best known for its progressive and socially liberal student body that is heavily passionate about local, national, and world issues. additionally, the students at evergreen care deeply about the environment and human rights issues.

Evergreen is committed to providing students with an interdisciplinary, reality-based, community-responsive liberal arts education. The curriculum integrates students' life experiences and goals with an emphasis on diverse cultural perspectives provides a unique opportunity for students to go into local communities and engage in research, education and problem-solving projects that are beneficial to communities and students. It offers students the ability to customize their program to meet specific academic and career goals, in a liberal arts program. The college engages in meaningful study and collective action for the purpose of making positive and lasting changes in America.

Narrative evaluations as opposed to a simplistic grade system. Students work is summarized in narrative form per quarter, or length of the program. Classes are taught in program form as opposed to in individual topic section which creates a very interdisciplinary approach to the topics at hand. It also means you are with the same teachers and students for the whole year at times as opposed to just that term.

vibrant interdisciplinary collaborative acedemic community.

liberal and unique program

Having no grades, just written evaluations and their team-taught interdisciplinary programs.

Sustainability studies. the ability to study anything that you want study as long as you have a teacher that will support you.

Evergreen definitely has a stoner-school, hippie, stupid activist reputation. The thing is that those people are the only people anyone really heard about. Evergreen grads are known to be very independent and capable. I think that this school graduates very adaptable students due to the kind of classes and learning and the social community. Evergreen is a very unique place that sometimes I feel only those who have been here can understand. We are also well known for being green and pretty liberal.

A hands-on education in a dynamic and diverse learning environment.

I'm not completely sure. I think the interdisciplinary classes are well known; it is hard to know what is thought of as its merits by someone from out of town. In town, the school is a bit disparaged, I think.

Interdisciplinary education and a focus on sustainability

Being a bunch of dirty hippies. OR being passionate and driven.

Our school is know best for two things: alternative education and being a notorious hippie-filled drug school. Those statements are both correct in their own regard; our education is incredible and I've learned more here than in my twelve years of school. There is a big influx of students who come here because the later reputation, but are not an accurate representation of this school.

hippies, trees and compost

Integrative, collaborative learning. True learning, rather than rote learning or memorization.

Evergreen has established a national reputation for leadership in developing innovative interdisciplinary, collaborative and team-taught academic programs. We have a vibrant undergraduate program, a graduate program, and public service centers that constitute a unique academic setting. Evergreen values a student-centered learning environment, a link between theory and practice, and a multicultural community of diverse faculty, students and staff working together

Being a "Hippie" School- A liberal arts college filled with smelly idealistic kids.