awareness

Mutual Inquiry

General

In general, students and faculty agree to:

• Participate fully and faithfully in program activities.  Attend—and arrive on time for—all scheduled program activities.  Students agree to notify faculty of expected absences from the program, but students must recognize that there are no “excused absences.”  (There are times when one might not be able to attend program activities.  You should tell us when you cannot attend, but we do not want to be forced to judge the adequacy or legitimacy of “excuses.”)
• Stay informed about the program and its schedule, including active, regular monitoring e-mail and the class listserv and regular checkbacks to the program web page.  To subscribe to the listserve, send a message to the following address:
  join-awareness@lists.evergreen.edu
  Confirm your intention to subscribe when prompted.
• Think carefully about TESC’s five learning foci and the six expectations of an Evergreen graduate: http://www.evergreen.edu/aboutevergreen/fivefoci.htm
  http://www.evergreen.edu/aboutevergreen/expectations.htm.
• Be present with one’s full humanity and the learning community.
• Be prepared for program activities, which includes having done all assigned reading in advance of attending program meetings. Do not attend program meetings when unprepared.
• Communicate in a direct and timely way about intended absences, problems, changed plans, misunderstandings, needed accommodations, etc.
• Respect staff, facilities and equipment.  Theft or deliberate damage of equipment is grounds for dismissal.
• Be fully present and work safely.  This means, in part, that no one should come to class impaired by the use of drugs, licit or illicit, or alcohol.
• Maintain clean individual and collective workspaces.  This includes, specifically, bodies.
• Work cooperatively in sharing and building on each other’s contributions.  Be willing to learn by being open to new ideas, suggestions, points of view, and methods of instruction.  Recognize that everyone, students and faculty alike, will blunder into mistakes, lapses in good judgment, indiscretions, poorly, even objectionably, phrased comments, and so on.  Everyone must be willing to point these out honestly, engage in necessary discussion, and then to continue learning from and with the other members of this program.
• Be individually responsible for any work submitted as one’s own.  This means, in part, not plagiarizing work.
• Engage in respectful, honest, open and well-intentioned exchange and investigation with one another.
• Refrain from unjustifiably offensive behavior or language.
• Abide by the principles of the Social Contract (see http://www.evergreen.edu/aboutevergreen/social.htm), Student Conduct Code and Faculty Handbook.  (Respect differences, honor rights, seek understanding.)
• Resolve disputes directly and without rancor.  All members of the program should abide by the principle of honest and face-to-face resolution of conflicts.  In the event you do not feel successful in resolving a conflict yourself, bring your concerns to the attention, first, of your seminar leader.  If the individual faculty member cannot resolve the problem, he or she will bring it to the attention of the faculty team and they will take steps to resolve the problem.  Any conflicts that cannot be resolved by your own efforts or the efforts of your faculty will be referred to our program’s Academic Dean.  You may not skip steps in this process.
• Respect each other’s lives outside of the program,.
• Follow through on obligations made to others in teamwork situations.
• Take responsibility for contacting Access Services (867-6348, Lib 1407D) regarding any health condition or disability that may require accommodations to participate effectively in this class. See their handout.

Students

Every student specifically acknowledges that to receive credit he or she must:

• Submit all assignments on or before due dates. Guidelines for all written work:  No separate title pages are necessary, but essays must have titles.  No plastic covers, please.  No font smaller than the equivalent of Times 12.  All written work should be word-processed, spell-checked, and double-spaced with appropriate margins and scholarly citation.  Style guide resources are available at http://www.evergreen.edu/library/catalog/styleguides.htm. Submit peer reviews of earlier drafts and a cover letter with your final draft.
• Pay all fees properly assessed.
• Attend all program activities.
• Complete a self-evaluation according to the scheme outlined throughout the quarter.
• Write a faculty evaluation.
• Attend an evaluation conference.

Faculty & Credit

The faculty specifically agree to:

• Review work in a timely manner.
• Be available to meet during office hours or by appointment.
• NOT accept late student work.
• Schedule an evaluation conference and prepare a brief written evaluation to accompany each student’s self-evaluation.

The faculty will award full credit to every student who satisfactorily completes the assigned program work.  Final decisions about credit and evaluations will be made by the program faculty team at the end of evaluation week.  The faculty assume that everyone will do sufficiently good work to receive full credit.  It is in everyone’s best interest that this assumption be allowed to hold.

Except in truly extraordinary circumstances, no one will be allowed to carry an INCOMPLETE beyond the end of the program.

FERPA

Agreement

Good faith compliance with this Covenant is required for membership and credit in Awareness.

Faculty and Student Signatures:                                                                    Date: