(Portland, Ore.) – The Evergreen Sustainable Home Project, a collaborative project of The Evergreen State College and South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity has won a national leadership award. 

The Evans Library building is being renovated from the ground up. The exterior appearance will largely remain the same - but the interior of the building is being reborn.

The project aims to make the 360,000 square foot building more energy efficient and to create a more effective learning and working environment for Evergreen's 4400 students and nearly 800 faculty and staff.

When: Thursday, November 11th Noon - 1 P.M.
Where: The Evergreen State College, Seminar II Building, A-1105
Free of Charge

The Evergreen State College will honor all who have served in the United States Military with a Veterans Day Commemoration event Thursday, Nov. 11.

Army Capt. Forest Horan from the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment (Stryker) will speak at the event. He recently returned from Iraq serving with the new Fort Lewis-based Stryker Brigade.

Jason Kilmer, an addictive behaviors specialist at The Evergreen State College, has been named the “mid-level student affairs professional of the year” at a regional conference, and will represent Evergreen at a national student affairs conference as a nominee for the national award.

Kilmer was honored October 29th in Boise, Id. at the regional conference of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Please join Art Costantino, interim VP for finance and administration, Collin Orr, interim director of facilities, and project manager Nancy Johns for an information session about the library renovation project, including an overview of this significant project as well as a 'Q&A' session. 

When: Tuesday, Nov. 30 from 1 - 2 p.m.
Where: Second floor library lobby

The Evergreen State College's 13th annual Graduate School Fair is slated for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10 at the college's Longhouse Education and Cultural Center. The Longhouse Center is located at the main campus in Olympia.

When: Wednesday, October 27th at 7:00 P.M.
Where: The Evergreen State College, Seminar II Building, D-1105
Fee: Free of Charge

New York City author Rodrigo Toscano will be at The Evergreen State College Wednesday, Oct. 27 for a poetry reading and question & answer session.

Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya Books, 2004), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002), and partisans (O Books, 1999).

When: Friday, October 22nd 7:00 P.M.
Where: The Evergreen State College, Seminar II Building, B-1105
Free of Charge

Dime's Worth of Difference challenges the lesser of two evils theory, aiming a good portion of its critique at the liberal support for John Kerry and the Democratic Party. A must-read in this election year, it's the new collection edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, editors of the popular radical website CounterPunch.org and the investigative newsletter CounterPunch.

Contact: Sylvie McGee: 360-867-6859

Center for Community-Based Learning and Action

An expression of 15 years of hopes and dreams will come to life Monday, Oct. 18 as The Evergreen State College Center for Community-Based Learning and Action celebrates its grand opening.