Evergreen, racing Mizzou down the toilet...
Few ever sit down and analyze Evergreen. It was started in 1967....as a NON-traditional type college. That means that they were going in an experiential direction. You would show up and enroll in an academic program....NOT a class. The professors would write academic evaluations on students...not grades. In the mix of this...there are no ‘majors’...just a concentration area. While it is accredited, if you were looking at the value of a Evergreen degree...you’d start to shake your head because it opens up the door for a number of losers to attend....fake out the professors....and there’s no worries about failing because of the lack of grades.
Tuition? $6,500 a year. Go and compare it against most four-year public colleges, and it’s a remarkable deal, but you need to ask why.
As for the demographics? This is another part of the story. For the first twenty years....students of color made up seven to ten percent of the students in the college. In the 1990s, they started to edge up....to 15-to-17 percent. Since 2011....they now make up a minimum of 25-percent (probably hitting 30-percent in 2017). All of this while the state demographics image is 3.5-percent black.
My thoughts on Weinstein’s case? If I were the college...I’d go and try to talk him down to one-million and settle before this goes into court. I think he’s got a great case to win but I’m not sure if he deserves 3.8 million.