The Evergreen State College history

Provost Dave Barry oversaw the academic deans in the academic planning conference in 1970, and the result was that faculty would be assigned to plan for and be part of interdisciplinary project groups.

In June 1977, Evans was hired as the college’s second president. It was a turning point for the college, said Nancy Allen, 70, of Olympia, who joined the faculty in 1971 to teach Spanish.

The program had its beginning in 1972, when founder Maxine Mimms (b.

In 1982, the Council for Post-Secondary Education recognized the Tacoma Seminar as an official campus of The Evergreen State College and Mimms was named as director.

The campus was recognized by Evergreen as an official "off-campus program center" for the 1983 school year ("Catalog 1983-84," 70). On September 26 of that year, the Tacoma campus held its first day of classes as an official Evergreen program center.

In 1990, she retired and handed the campus down to her protege, Doctor Wintonnette Joye Hardiman (b.

In the 1992–93 school year, students chose Leonard Peltier to give the address at commencement, which was the first with a graduating class of more than 1,000.

The idea of faculty member and Lummi Tribe member Mary Ellen Hillaire was realized when the House of Welcome Longhouse Education and Culture Center opened in 1995.

In 1999, Mumia Abu-Jamal was invited to deliver the keynote address by audiotape for the graduating class at the college.

Continued growth necessitated that the campus move yet again in 2000.

• Two former Evergreen students, Justin Solondz and Briana Waters, pleaded guilty to their roles in the 2001 arson at the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture, where a cell of radical environmentalists mistakenly believed that poplar trees were being genetically engineered.

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 member Gilda Shepherd recorded the 2007 interview on the occasion of Doctor Mimms’s 80th birthday celebration.

1 in the West for undergraduate teaching and masters universities by United States News & World Report’s 2009-10 college rankings.

He will officially take office on October 1, 2015.

The following day, Evergreen's 2017 commencement ceremony was also moved off-campus because of safety concerns.

In 2018, the Lyceum Hall, which Hardiman referred to as the "womb of the campus," was renamed the Doctor Maxine Mimms & Doctor W. Joye Hardiman Lyceum Hall in their honor.