(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College in Olympia is rolling out the welcome mat for prospective undergraduate students and their parents with its annual Preview Day on Saturday, January 14. Visitors will get an inside look at Evergreen’s nationally recognized interdisciplinary curriculum; learn about specific areas of academic interest and how Evergreen students design customized academic pathways to meet their personal and career goals; meet and ask questions of faculty members and students; and have an opportunity to tour classrooms, labs, residence halls and other facilities on Evergreen’s unique thousand-acre campus. The full-day event begins with a welcome session at 9 a.m. in the Daniel Evans Library building second floor lobby and continues until 4 p.m. RSVPs are encouraged, but not required. For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/visit.
The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to education. Evergreen has been noted as one of the nation’s top colleges by the Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, and US News & World Report. The book “Colleges That Change Lives” (www.ctcl.org) by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope, praises Evergreen as one of the three best liberal arts colleges on the West Coast. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) notes that Evergreen excels in areas that lead to student success. Evergreen is also noted as one of America’s top “green” colleges, recognizing its leadership in sustainability. To learn more, visit www.evergreen.edu.
The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505. For directions visit, http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm
