At The Evergreen State College you have
a direct hand in building a narrative-based transcript that’s unlike any other school’s.
Much of it is written in your own voice, which
allows you to stand out as a real person among a sea of grade point averages. The documents in your transcript are a fixed and semi-public
record. You can shape them to effectively serve you after graduation. This guide offers a broad
APPLICATION STATEMENT
ORIENTATION ESSAY
PURPOSE • Reflect on, assess, and communicate your prior academic, service, or professional experience and the skills you will bring to Evergreen.
PURPOSE • Reflect on, assess, and communicate your position as a new student at Evergreen.
PURPOSE • Reflect on, assess, and communicate the progress, achievements, and skills you developed in a program or course.
• Envision yourself at Evergreen and set goals for your future academic pursuits.
• Articulate your insights in your own words.
• Summarize, highlight, and connect the different parts of your prior experience.
SELF-EVALUATION
FINAL SELF-EVALUATION PURPOSE Same as Self-Evaluation (list at left), also: • Revise past Self-Evaluations to make them appropriate for audiences such as graduate school admissions staff and employers.
• Set goals for your future academic pursuits.
• Add important perspective and detail not captured in your faculty’s evaluations of you or your Final Academic Statement to your Evergreen Transcript.
view of the documents that you will create and
• Introduce yourself.
EVERY EVERGREEN TRANSCRIPT INCLUDES:
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE
Admissions will use this to learn about your academic history and interest in Evergreen, and to decide whether to admit you.
Faculty may use your Orientation Essay to understand your work and goals when you seek their guidance.
Faculty may use your Self-Evaluations to understand your work and goals during your evaluation conference.
You can use this document to support writing your Annual and Final Academic Statements.
You can use this document to support writing your Annual and Final Academic Statements.
Anyone who requests your transcript, including graduate schools and employers, may use the SelfEvaluations you choose to include to learn more about you and your educational background.
use to build your final Evergreen Transcript.
1. A COVER SHEET ABOUT EVERGREEN This document provides a description of how Evergreen works.
2. RECORD OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT All your programs/courses, course equivalencies, credits earned (resembles a traditional transcript).
3. FINAL ACADEMIC STATEMENT 4. FACULTY EVALUATIONS OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT 5. FINAL SELF-EVALUATIONS OPTIONAL You choose whether or not to submit Self-Evals to your transcript.
TRANSCRIPT
FACULTY EVALUATIONS OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Your faculty write evaluations that detail the quality of the work you completed and your participation in program. They provide examples of your achievements and feedback on your approach to learning and how you work with your fellow students. Faculty usually meet with you during Eval Week to share what they’ve written. This is an opportunity for you to discuss the evaluation, your further goals, and your transcript. Anyone who requests your transcript, including graduate schools and employers, will use it to learn more about you and your educational background.
REQUIRED OF FACULTY View faculty evaluations of you on my.evergreen.edu in Academic Progress.
You can use this document to lead into work on your Orientation Essay and Annual and Final Academic Statement.
300 –500 WORDS
300–500 WORDS
STUDENT EVALUATION OF FACULTY
TRANSCRIPT
200–750 WORDS
PURPOSE • Reflect on, assess, and communicate your faculty’s effectiveness in facilitating your learning. • Articulate to your faculty what they’ve done well and what they could improve on. • Evaluate and assess the structure of the program or course and its learning outcomes.
TRANSCRIPT
ANNUAL ACADEMIC STATEMENT
FINAL ACADEMIC STATEMENT
PURPOSE • Review, reflect upon, and connect common themes in your education via the progress, achievements, and skills you have developed each year.
PURPOSE • Introduce yourself and your transcript in your own words to audiences such as graduate school admissions staff and employers.
• Revisit your Academic Statement from the previous year—update and clarify your goals and plan your next steps.
• Summarize, highlight, and synthesize your full journey at Evergreen. Describe your area/s of emphasis.
• Create a continually evolving map of your academic journey.
• Review, reflect upon, and connect common themes in your education via the progress, achievements, and skills you have developed during your entire undergraduate career.
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE
Your current faculty may use the Student Evaluation of Faculty to review their own performance and the structure of the program or course.
Faculty and advisors may use your Annual Academic Statement to understand your work and goals when you seek their guidance.
You use this document to articulate and assume responsibility for the education you’ve constructed.
The Academic Deans will use it during the regular faculty review process.
You can use this document to support writing your Final Academic Statement.
You can use it to support writing graduate school applications and cover letters. Anyone who requests your transcript, including graduate schools and employers, will use it to learn more about you and your educational background.
RECOMMENDED
750 WORDS
RECOMMENDED
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750 WORDS
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Due during New Student Orientation, held before fall quarter*
Due Friday of Week 10
Your faculty may set a different deadline.
Due Friday of Eval Week your final quarter
Due Friday of Eval Week your final quarter
Due Thursday of Week 7 each spring quarter
Due Friday of Eval Week your final quarter*
Submit to my.evergreen.edu and also share at Orientation
Turn In to your faculty on my.evergreen.edu
Edit and Submit to Transcript on my.evergreen.edu
Submit to my.evergreen.edu
Edit and Turn In Annual Academic Statements on my.evergreen.edu
Submit your Final Academic Statement to your transcript on my.evergreen.edu (select Graduation)
REQUIRED*/OPTIONAL
REQUIRED
REQUIRED
OPTIONAL
RECOMMENDED
REQUIRED
REQUIRED
*Required if you do not submit SAT or ACT scores.
*If you transfer in winter, spring, or summer, submit your essay the Friday before the first week of your first quarter.
You are required to share a Self-Evaluation with your faculty in the final quarter of a multi-quarter program or course.
You may submit all or some Self-Evaluations to your transcript. They are listed in reverse-chronological order. Your last quarter will be the first listed.
Student Evaluations of Faculty are not required. Also, you don’t have to submit an evaluation of your faculty before they give you their evaluation of you.
If you do not meet the deadline, your registration will be put on hold.
*If you miss this deadline your graduation date will
Due with your application Submit your essay to Admissions with your application.
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RESOURCES INSTRUCTIONS & SUPPORT A written prompt for the Application Essay is included with the application process. Find support by talking to: • Evergreen’s Admissions Office • Your previous school’s guidance counselor • Mentors, friends, and family
Attend New Student Orientation to learn about this essay. If you transfer in winter or spring, write an Orientation Essay with support from New Student Programs.
RESOURCES INSTRUCTIONS & SUPPORT
Your faculty will give instructions each quarter in your course or program for writing Self-Evaluations. Faculty may have specific expectations for Self-Evaluations that differ from other faculty you have worked with. If explicit expectations aren’t given, ask your faculty before Eval Week or explore the resources below.
• New Student Orientation facilitators who
You submit Self-Evaluations on my.evergreen.edu. Search helpwiki.evergreen.edu or ask student support staff for help navigating the website.
• The Writing Center
• Academic Advising and Peer Advisors
• Mentors, friends, and family
• Academic Advising and Peer Advisors
• The Writing Center
• evergreen.edu/writingcenter/evaluations
• Mentors, friends, and family
• “Hacking Your Transcript: How to Intentionally Shape Your Transcript to Serve You” by Caryn Dudley
hold sessions about this essay (Fall quarter)
© 2019 by The Evergreen State College This document was developed by the Writing Center with support from: the Mentor Council, Admissions, Registration & Records, Marketing & Communications, the Transcript Review team lead by Institutional Research and comprised of faculty and staff from Academic & Career Advising, and with review from the Academic Deans and the Provost. Includes excerpts from “Hacking Your Transcript: How to Intentionally Shape Your Transcript to Serve You” by Caryn Dudley, available at evergreen.edu/writingcenter/evaluations.
Ask your current faculty what type of feedback would be useful for them to learn and grow in their teaching. The evaluations that you write of your faculty can influence their growth, teaching plans, and goals. • Academic Advising and Peer Advisors • The Writing Center • evergreen.edu/writingcenter/eval_faculty
change. We recommend turning it in a few days early. Once submitted, it cannot be removed or revised.
RESOURCES INSTRUCTIONS & SUPPORT The Academic Statement is introduced at New Student Orientation. Each fall quarter, faculty devote time in programs to this work. At All-Campus Mentoring Days in winter and spring, faculty are on hand for one-on-one sessions to review your Academic Statement. If you enroll after fall quarter and/or if you are not enrolled in a 16- or 8-credit program that offers instruction, explore the resources below: • All-Campus Mentoring Day staff and faculty
• The Writing Center
• Faculty
• Academic Advising and Peer Advisors
• Mentors, friends, and family
• evergreen.edu/academicstatement
evergreen.edu/writingcenter