[i] For a discussion of the original vision see Richard M. Jones, Experiment at Evergreen (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Pub. Co., 1981).
[ii] See Appendix 1, catalog copy.
[iii] Conversation with Laura Coghlan, Director of Institutional Research, TESC
[iv] Atwood, Payback : debt and the shadow side of wealth.
[v] “A New Measure of Well-Being From a Happy Little Kingdom – New York Times”; “Gross National Happiness Web Site.”
[vi] See “» DOCUMENTS and LINKS Re-Modeling Teaching and Learning at Evergreen DTF 2009-10,” n.d., http://blogs.evergreen.edu/rtaledtf/documents-and-links/.
[vii] Ibid.
[viii] Initial conversations included new and recently hired business faculty who subsequently chose to teach either in the MPA program or together in business-specific programs. While many faculty were involved in various parts this conversation, and one faculty who drafted the first program description did not rotate out of the Master’s in Public Administration program to teach MVSW, the team that entered the class room the first day of class did draw on a well-established Evergreen tradition for generating program curriculum and faculty teams. As part of the “dream program” exercise at the 2008 faculty retreat Bill Bruner and Jules Unsel created “Dollars to Donuts: Freud Foods and American Capitalism.” Local Mortgage Broker, Dave Nugent, stepped in to provide a series of personal finance lectures during winter quarter.
[ix] Email from Laura Coghlan, spring 2010.
[x] Ibid.
[xi] Alvermann, Adolescents’ online literacies : connecting classrooms, digital media, and popular culture; Livingstone, “Media literacy and the challenge of new information and communication technologies.”; “THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY INTO LEARNING AND TEACHING IN THE LIBERAL ARTS.”; Carr, The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains.
[xii] “Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials: Understanding the “New Students” (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE”; Downes, Interactive realism : the poetics of Cyberspace; Glazier, Digital poetics : the making of E-poetries; Nye, Technology matters : questions to live with.
[xiii] Godwin-Jones, Bob, “Messaging, Gaming, Peer-to-Peer Sharing: Language Learning Strategies & Tools for the Millennial Generation,” Language Learning & Technology, v9 n1 p17-22 Jan 2005; Runco, M., “Creativity and Education,” New Horizons in Education, Vol 56, No.1, 2008; Beavis, Catherine, “Games within Games: Convergence and Critical Literacy,” in Rebekah Willett, et al, eds., Play, Creativity and Digital Culture (London: Routledge, 2008). See also Robert D. Strom and Ellis Paul Torrance, Education for Affective Achievement, (Rand McNally, 1973). Nicholas Carr’s Shallows
[xiv] Cronon, “’Only connect…’..”
[xv] Clark, Supersizing the mind : embodiment, action, and cognitive extension.
[xvi] Chaltain, American schools : the art of creating a democratic learning community; Boyles, “Schools or markets? commercialism, privatization, and school-business partnerships.”
[xvii] Appendix 2, Reading Lists for Three Quarters
[xviii] Appendix 3, Syllabus
[xix] See “From Motricity to Mentality » American Scientist,” n.d., http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/from-motricity-to-mentality; Emily Yoffee, “The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. – By Emily Yoffe – Slate Magazine,” n.d., http://www.slate.com/id/2224932.
[xx] “Hank Willis Thomas.”
[xxi] “2010 Super Bowl Commercials — NFL FanHouse”; “This is your brain on a Super Bowl ad – CNET News.”
[xxii] Appendix 4, Winter Quarter Final Exam
[xxiii] “Why Your Brain Never Really Rests – Newsweek.”
[xxiv] “Spirituality in Higher Education”; Pearce, The biology of transcendence : a blueprint of the human spirit.
[xxv] Wangyal and Lukianowicz, Wonders of the natural mind : the essence of Dzogchen in the native Bon tradition of Tibet.
[xxvi] Dehaene, Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention.
[xxvii] Chen, Moran, and Gardner, Multiple intelligences around the world.
[xxviii] Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves; Flaherty, The midnight disease : the drive to write, writer’s block, and the creative brain.
[xxix] Appendix 5, Fall Quarter Case Study Syllabus
[xxx] Appendix 6– excel workshop something from Bill’s stuff
[xxxi] Suggestions for alumni entrepreneurs were invited from the TESC campus community through email beginning in the spring of 2009. RJ Burt in the office of Alumni Affairs extended invitations to these alumni and others as we faced the challenges of scheduling busy people willing to come to campus without financial compensation.
[xxxii] Appendix 7, Alumni Questionnaire
[xxxiii] Appendix 8, Living the Greener Dream program description
[xxxiv] Appendix 9, Alumni Lecture “Best Quotes”
[xxxv] Margraf, “Volunteer Center – Volunteer Center Home”; Robbins, “Center for Community-Based Learning and Action at Evergreen.”
[xxxvi] Jacobs, Cajete, and Lee, Critical neurophilosophy and indigenous wisdom; Cajete, “Indigenous scholar Greg Cajete visits Salish Kootenai College.”
[xxxvii] Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her numerous publications include Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities and Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education.
[xxxviii] DVD recordings of the Alumni lectures are on file with TESC’s office of Alumni Affairs.
[xxxix] Bronson, Po, and Ashley Merryman, “The Creativity Crisis.”
[xl] Robert Jensen is professor of journalism at the University of Texas and the author of All my bones shake (New York; London: Soft Skull ; Turnaround [distributor], 2009); Robert Jensen, The heart of whiteness : confronting race, racism, and white privilege (San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 2005).
Dan Booth Cohen, Ph.D. is a professional Constellation facilitator and the author of, I Carry Your Heart in My Heart. Family Constellations in Prison (Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Auer International, 2009).[xli] bio Dan Booth Cohen, Tuesday 30 March
[xlii] Ward, Happy ending; and, Day of absence; two plays.; “Day of Absence / Day of Presence at Evergreen.”
[xliii] The stages discussed and tested in this article by William Hall, Roy Freedle and William Cross, Jr. include: 1) Pre-encounter: the world as seen through the oppressor’s logic (e.g., nonblack or antiblack); 2) Encounter: experience shatters current interpretation of the Black condition; 3) Immersion: everything of value is related to Blackness; 4) Internalization: focus can be other than self and Blackness
[xliv] “Awareness TESC Winter 2006.”
[xlv] “What is MI?.” Dr. Jason Kilmer presented a workshop based on these principles at TESC, Summer 2010.
[xlvi] Thanks to Steve Hunter for this analogy to Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which occurred during a conversation about when in the outreach, recruitment and admissions process students and their parents do (or should) become conscious of Evergreen’s alternative educational mission.