The Evergreen State College is an accredited public baccalaureate college, founded in 1967 in the state capital, Olympia, Washington. Its academic offerings are generally traditional, but the college replaces grades with individual written evaluations from faculty and organizes most studies into largely interdisciplinary classes titled "Coordinated Studies." Evergreen offers the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Master of Environmental Studies, Master of Public Administration, and Master in Teaching. As of 2004 it had approximately 4,400 students taught by 267 faculty members. Fourteen percent of faculty are part-time.
The EvergreenStateColleges commitment to sustainability and green power is clear with the colleges exceptional commitment to 100 percent green power usage on campus.
Evergreen students voted overwhelmingly in December of 2004 to go green enacting a student fee of one dollar per credit to purchase green power from renewable sources in the northwest region through the utilitys Green Power program, putting theory into practice.
The student proposal was approved by Evergreens Board of Trustees as a part of the colleges biennial budget in June, 2005.
Kaplan/Newsweek ranked Evergreen as one of the "12 Hottest Schools" for 2004.
Evergreen's seniors and first-year students scored in the 90th percentile for the Active and Collaborative Learning benchmark compared to all Baccalaureate-Liberal Arts Colleges in the National Survey of Student Engagement.
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