Jean MacGregor
is a senior scholar at the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of
Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College. She directs
the Center's new "Curriculum for the Bioregion" Initiative, whose
goal is to engage more undergraduates in experiential
learning related to environment, community and sustainability.
From 2000-2004, Jean co-directed (with Barbara Leigh Smith) the National
Learning Communities Project, a Pew Charitable Trusts-funded initiative aimed
at strengthening learning community programs and communities of practice nation-wide.
In 1985, she was one of the founding directors (with Smith) of the Washington
Center, a 51-college grass roots partnership working on curricular reform
and faculty development in the state of Washington. In that capacity, she
has supported campuses in Washington and throughout the nation in launching
curricular learning community initiatives. She also was centrally involved
in the Center's other projects, focusing on cultural pluralism and academic
success for students of color, and mathematics and science reform.
With formal training in biology and environmental studies (Wellesley
College and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment),
Jean's career has revolved around teaching and community organizing in the
fields of environmental studies, environmental education, community studies
and community development. She has been involved in both the collaborative
learning and service learning movements since the early 1970s. She has taught
solo and in interdisciplinary teams at Warren Wilson College in western North
Carolina and at The Evergreen State College, and currently teaches Environmental
Education in Evergreen's Masters of Environmental Studies Program.
Jean consults widely at two- and four-year colleges and universities in the
areas of learning communities development and teaching, collaborative learning,
student intellectual development, and assessment. She has been involved
in several collaborative writing efforts: Learning Communities: Creating Connections
among Students, Faculty and Disciplines (Jossey-Bass, 1990); Student Self-Evaluation:
Fostering Reflective Learning (Jossey-Bass, 1993); Strategies for Energizing
Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities (Jossey-Bass, 2000);
and Learning Communities: Reforming Undergraduate Education (Jossey Bass,
2004).
From 1982-2000, Jean was a consulting editor for the Journal of Environmental
Education. For the past 20+ years she has been an officer or board
member of Black Hills Audubon Society, which serves 1200 members in southern
Puget Sound. She also currently serves on the Board of Stewards of Audubon
Washington, a state office of the National Audubon Society.
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