1987 Admissions Video – A Letter to Home
Dylan Smuin stars as a prospective student composing a letter to his family about his experience visiting Evergreen, Olympia and the surrounding environs. Laura Porter guides him as the Evergreen mascot, the Geoduck. Smuin’s tour includes the library, media loan, student services, computer center, media production, Red Square, [...]

This 1989 admissions video shows Doug Scrima and Bob Cillo leading a typical information session with four prospective students. These sessions are designed to acquaint prospective students with the distinctive qualities of the Evergreen curriculum and community.
(1989) Length 23:23
Produced by the Office of Admissions

This admissions video offers a visual portrait of Evergreen in 1995. It follows students Josh Judd and Laurel Rosen around the campus and the surrounding area as they interview faculty and talk about the facilities, student activities, and living arrangements at Evergreen. Evergreen students and staff produced the video.
Original Format: 3/4 inch video
(1995) Length 9:56
Produced [...]

Media scholar Dr. Robert McChesney (Class of 1976) sat down with Evergreen faculty, Tony Zaragoza, on his first visit back to the Evergreen campus since graduating in1976. They discussed a wide range of issues including McChesney’s own Evergreen experience, his life after graduating, his vision of the future of media, and his current work on [...]

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, narrative evaluations, faculty seminar. This 1989 project led to a larger project for the Office of Institutional Research called Ways of Knowing (available in the [...]

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 done outside of Evergreen and the rational for this mode of learning. The video was created for the Learning Service Center and featured Maxine Mimms, Niels [...]

This uncredited short video offers an honest discussion about campus life at Evergreen by interviewing Evergreen students. Students reflect on the positive and negative aspects of an interdisciplinary curriculum, on-campus housing, and college social life. The piece has no titles or credits and offers little context was likely used to show prospective [...]