Category: Teaching and Learning

SELF EVALUATION: or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the five foci (2010) 56:35

This is a live, studio production of Sally Cloninger’s final 5th year review.  She combined a monologue about her work as a teacher and co-learner at Evergreen with…

Mary Hillaire, A Lasting Vision (1999) 34:00

This portrait of the late Mary Hillaire, Evergreen faculty and a member of the Lummi nation until her death in 1982, was produced by Marge Brown and Barbara…

Drawing from the Landscape (1994 and 2008) 24:30

Faculty and staff joined their colleagues and facilitators Marilyn Frasca, Larry Eickstaedt, and David Whitener on Squaxin Island for a 1994 summer institute sponsored by a grant from…

Living Catalog – Xequiquel (1974) 11:01

Faculty members Nancy Allen and Ron Woodbury discuss their coordinated studies program Lawmakers/Lawbreakers. About the Living Catalog series: In the initial years of The Evergreen State College, academic…

The Living Catalog – Lawmakers/Lawbreakers (1974) 20:03

Faculty members Mark Levensky and Dave Powell discuss their coordinated studies program Conceptions Of Self. About the Living Catalog series: In the initial years of The Evergreen State…

Living Catalog – Conceptions Of Self (1974) 11:53

Faculty members, Mark Levensky and Dave Powell discuss their coordinated studies program, Conceptions Of Self. About the series: ” In the initial years of The Evergreen State College,…

Living Catalog – Human Responses To Human Documents (1974) 22:07

Faculty members Chuck Pailthorp, Dave Hitchens, Tom Maddox, and Leo Daugherty discuss their coordinated studies program, Human Responses To Human Documents. About the Living Catalog series: In the…

Living Catalog – Advanced Science Group Contracts (1974) 9:01

Faculty member Willie Parson discusses his three Advanced Science Group Contracts. About the Living Catalog series: In the initial years of The Evergreen State College, academic programs were…

Living Catalog – Encounter America: Ideologies & Realities (1974) 19:17

Faculty members Eric Larson, Dumi Maraire, Margaret Gribskov and Russ Fox discuss their coordinated studies program, Encounter America: Ideologies & Realities. About the Living Catalog series: In the…

Political Ecology: A Survey Of Its Purpose, People, Projects, Problems (1971) 26:27

This film documents an early science program at Evergreen focusing on Political Ecology. Narrated by Faculty Ed Kormondy, Richard Anderson, David Milne, Oscar Soule and Fred Tabbutt, the…

Celebrating Dr. Maxine Mimms (2007) 11:57

Maxine Mimms, founder of Evergreen’s Tacoma program, talks about her philosophy of education and life, weaving music, culinary arts, and teaching into her “Opera of Maxine Mimms.” Faculty…

For What It’s Worth (1976) 21:11

Beginning with a look at the political and cultural context of the founding of the college, this 1976 film documents and evaluates Evergreen’s growth as an alternative institution…

Dreams and Goals – Willy Unsoeld and Tom Rainey Discussion on Community (1974) 16:04

Faculty members Willy Unsoeld and Tom Rainey discuss community at Evergreen. They consider governance, ways to build strong community, and the ideas behind faculty forum. This video is…

Dreams and Goals – First Academic Deans (1974) 17:28

Faculty members Dave Hitchens, Richard Brian, and Larry Stenberg sing a song written by faculty librarian Malcolm Stilson, about the first three deans at the mythical “Wintergreen.” Charlie…

Introduction to External Credit at Evergreen (c.1975) 11:56

This early video introduced prospective students to the innovative external credit program at Evergreen. Faculty and staff explain both the application process to earn college credit for work…

Geology and Chemistry of Pollution (1992) 19:50

The 1992 upper-division science program, Geology and Chemistry of Pollution, documented student work over one academic year. Students produced a baseline analysis of pollution in Puget Sound by…

Teaching Art And Science (2008) 15:19

A visual essay with voice over about faculty member, Susan Aurand’s experience teaching art and science in a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs at Evergreen. Originally produced as…

Viewpoint – Filmmakers (28:20) 1974

Seattle’s KOMO 4 Television 1974 public affairs program Viewpoint presents the films made by Evergreen students early in the college’s history. Art McDonald, the show’s host, discusses the…

What’s New In The Schoolhouse (c.1974) (29:30)

KOMO 4 Education Director Marty Wilson hosts this weekly program about local education. She introduces three members of Evergreen, faculty Ed Kormondy and students, Terese Coggins and Steve…

Why Evergreen? (1971) 18:30

This is Evergreen’s first promotional film (c. 1971), intended to serve as a student recruitment tool. It features many of Evergreen’s founding Faculty and Administrators discussing what one…

First Draft (1989) 43:43

Faculty and staff discuss components of Evergreen’s pedagogical philosophy: interdisciplinary study teaching and learning, a student-centered curriculum, the public nature of teaching and learning, students’ responsibility for learning,…