The Evergreen State College is an accredited public baccalaureate college, founded in 1967 in the state capital, Olympia, Washington. Begun as an experimental and non-traditional college, its academic offerings have become generally more traditional over time, but the college still 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 224 faculty members. Twenty-nine percent of faculty are part-time.
The school mascot is the geoduck, and school colors are green and white. The basketball and soccer programs are noted for recent national rankings in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Notable Evergreen State College students and alumni
- Lynda Barry, cartoonist and author
- Craig Bartlett, cartoonist and animator
- Charles Burns, cartoonist
- Howard “Twilly” Cannon, environmental activist and organizer
- Rachel Corrie, activist
- Kimya Dawson, musician
- John Bellamy Foster Co-Editor Monthly Review
- Tim Girvin, calligrapher and designer
- Matt Groening, cartoonist, creator of "Life in Hell", The Simpsons and Futurama
- Kathleen Hanna, musician
- Karrie Jacobs, editor and author on architecture and design issues
- Stan Klyne, president of Klyne Audio Arts
- Saab Lofton, author, activist
- Lois Maffeo, musician
- Ciel Mahoney, artist
- Stella Marrs, artist
- Robert McChesney, Co-Editor Monthly Review
- Inga Muscio, author, feminist
- Jared Pappas-Kelley, artist
- Bruce Pavitt, founder of Sub Pop Records
- Michael Richards, actor, best known as "Cosmo Kramer" on Seinfeld
- Steve Thomas, host of the PBS show This Old House
- Mirah Zeitlyn, recording artist