Here at The Cooper Point Journal we are very invested in sharing information relevant to our campus community and strive to hold the Evergreen administration, faculty and staff accountable for their words and actions. As the Evergreen State College social contract states, the college “governance system must rest on open […]
Faculty Hiring at Evergreen Hiring Continues as Planned Amidst Faculty Equity Drama
By Jasmine Kozak Gilroy The Evergreen State College is currently hiring eight regular faculty members to teach undergraduate programs. Parallel to the hiring process, the new Diversity and Equity council has released their Strategic Equity Plan, which has ignited underlying tensions among staff, culminating in an ongoing stream of passionate […]
Faculty Votes to Limit Independant Study Contracts
DROPPING ENROLLMENT NUMBERS PROMPT ADMINISTRATORS TO RE-THINK THE EVERGREEN CURRICULUM, BUT A RECENT DECISION TO LIMIT CONTRACT CREDITS SPARKS DEBATE BY EMILY McHUGH In January, the Evergreen faculty voted to limit the number of credits individual students can earn from Independent Learning Contracts (ILCs) to 48 from an originally unlimited […]
Is the Grass Greener on the Common Side?
BY RAY STILL It is the dawn of a new technological age at Evergreen. The ancient dinosaurs of the TESC Talk and TESC Crier listserv will soon be extinct, and the Greener Commons thread-styled forum will rule the campus as the new option for students to communicate. The project to […]