How is he able to walk without a spine? Truly a feat!

I hope BB will be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his meticulous work on documenting the fall of Evergreen. No-one deserves it more.

He looks like the kind of of guy who would falsely claim to be an architect.

I am so pleased that you pointed out that how ESC lost students, the number of administrators and non-teaching bureaucrats actually increased. This is a trend that I witnessed firsthand which began in the 1980s. The woke crowd demand these high salaried offices of this and that vaguely defined initiation and multisyllabic administrative posts, which while adding nothing to the educational value, they become employers for the very same malcontents who demanded their creation

They have to "create" administrative positions otherwise those diversity and inclusion degrees are usless.

And just when I thought I was out, you pulled me back in.

He's "chosen to stay at Evergreen and teach". I'll bet he had mountains of job offers from other colleges just dying to be driven into receivership

He's like a sitcom character, where the whole point of his role is being a doofus.

They just don't get it and never will. Lost in a sea of their own importance.

He'd be pretty good at selling broken toasters. "this one has a broken plug, but I believe with hard work and determination, we can all start to imagine.... what your bread would be like"

"We are literally the only college in the state with declining enrollment. Who should we blame? Most definitely not me."

You might be interested to know that there's a French version about Evergreen at "Sanglier Sympa" - about an hour-long - which stitches together various bits and pieces of your hours and hours of documentation - called "Evergreen et les dérives du progressisme" - meaning Evergreen and Progressive unraveling - it's very well done. It has almost 1.5 million views! One French comment captured the moment perfectly when he said : "Pas terrible cet épisode de black mirror, les acteurs surjouent et franchement le scénario on y croit pas une seconde, les humains ne deviendront jamais aussi décérébrés." Which means - Not the best episode of Black Mirror I've seen. The actors overplay their roles and, frankly, the scenario is not really believable. Real human beings would never act so mindlessly". He should have added: I give this episode about 2 stars!

To be fair the equity strategy worked. It ruined the University for everyone.

The real tragedy is that schools like Evergreen had real and viable possible solutions to the weaknesses of the current dogmatic education and teaching methods, but those solutions were lost in Post-Modernism Woke madness

He gestured with his hands, right up until the end. It is a manifestation of his subconscious resistance.

As already mentioned in chat, I cannot imagine having to go through all the video of Evergreen and not spontaneously combust! George makes my blood boil after 10 seconds, but to go through all the hours and hours to edit this together..? You got some seriously strong will there, Benjamin :)

It is tempting to make one of many possible jokes about things Bridges did and said, but in the end, it’s not funny. I have met several Evergreen graduates and through your videos, I’ve become well acquainted with you and Brett and Heather. As far as I can tell, Evergreen was a very innovative and unique college, much like a college I attended. I can forgive Bridges for making mistakes, but I cannot forgive him not taking any responsibility for the destruction of a unique American college over which he presided. He ran it into the ground, then walked away with what I presume was a large sum of money and a generous pension. It does, of course, connect to the incompetence of our larger American leaders and institutions and we see the same lack of accountability and unwillingness to take responsibility. I hope Americans come to their senses before the county comes to the same fate as Evergreen and I hope Evergreen can eventually be “untransformed” to its former glory.

It’s so bizarre that everything that happened at evergreen is happening nationwide

@Benjamin A Boyce "Equity is what has caused Evergreen to tank and that is the one structure and system that they won't challenge, that they won't change" It would be foolish to think that George Bridges and the rest of the administration at Evergreen don't realize this simple and obvious thesis. If in fact George was completely unaware of the situation, he could potentially be forgiven. This however, we know isn't true. If any statistic proves the point is while the enrollment plummeted, the number of administrative positions went from 61 to 114! We all know they weren't simply hiring more custodians, stem professors or cafeteria workers. George and his college used the equity craze to do the very thing the academic world needs less of; bureaucratizing your way out of a problem.

Great fodder for Evergreen the Musical.

Watching someone deceive themselves so much and try to convince the rest of faculty is astounding.

"Blaming groups, does absolutely no good" - stop teaching CRT then. Because that is based on blame.

There’s an old saying. “Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach”. Bridges is the living embodiment of that.

I was honestly shocked by how much the enrollment numbers went down. At what point does Evergreen go into some sort of receivership?

Fascinating and yet, nauseating. I made it 7 minutes. Thanks again, Benjamin. Keep up the good work.

I'm getting the hell out of Washington state. I won't contribute to this government anymore.

This documentary series is a triumph.

"In February 2022, the chief enrollment officer reported that total enrollment had fallen to 1,952 students."

Well, very sad. In reverse order, pretend it's a ship and crew with a captain in a storm: "There's a light at the end of the tunnel." "I'll take it and call it a trend." "Look for fall." "This is a slide we've seen before." And, oh, sh*t, "That is not a cliff," just as the ship intersects with the wall of rocks. Calling the cliff a system of Oppression and Privilege isn't going to make it fade away, nor is tossing bars of stolen gold at it. Davy Jones Locker is full of those that thought they could intersect, or avoid intersecting with, "That is not a cliff": Reality. One can put their Equity Lenses on and peek over the edge of This Is Not A Cliff and see a whole lot of equity below. There is only one type of equity. If Bridges does teach, a good book for him to teach would be, "Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy," by Thomas Sowell. It's from way back in 1995, but so timeless, it's almost as if nothing has changed at all, as if we may be stuck in a period of time that is a cage or car stuck in the mud or snow, spinning it's tires getting nowhere. A culture trapped and stalled by the least creative, most clone-like, dull midwit administrative class isn't going anywhere and will always be unhappy, poor, and spiritually impoverished. There's almost some sort of Dull Midwit Clone Machine that must pop these people out. They all look and act the same. It's as if they were birthed by Birthing People, taken and raised in a dreary orphanage and trained to become College Presidents, Governors, Presidents, Health Officers, School Board Members, Social Workers, Judges. And they had some sort of Fairy Godmother in a nun's habit tap them on the head each day and tell them how special they were, and that they were destined to change the world....then, would rap them across the knuckles and scream at them for having hands on the table and thinking themselves so privileged. And she would read these poor gray children picture books full of data and charts with lines going up and down, and show how to use those and call them data, science, and progress, or defeat when needed.

The level of intellectual dishonesty on display here is so remarkable that one fears the real problem is psychiatric. It is particularly striking when telling lies about numbers, not just the obviously mean and cruel people preaching love and compassion for personal advantage. Only a masochist would chose to go there. I especially enjoyed the financial goon explaining how a long term reduction of enrollment to less than half what it was when the madness started is somehow good news even whilst admitting it is in truth "unsustainable". Sadly, unsustainable is precisely what Evergreen is untill there is accountability. Something which the American polity in general has somehow forgotten.

Thanks Benjamin! Education requires freedom of thought and freedom of thought requires two things. Standing outside of yourself; outside of your identity. And submitting to the authority of an intellectual tradition through which you develop the ability to think freely.

Be great to see an interview with Stacy Brown. The ex police chief on campus. did she get a 250k payout?

“These numbers will go up eventually. We just don’t know when or how”. Well, I’m glad he explained that so thoroughly. Try it in Dragon’s Den and see how well it goes down.

The problem for Evergreen is that saying "I have a degree from Evergreen" (post 2017) is probably worse on a job application than "I never finished high school". Not finishing high school could give an employer the impression that you lack dedication, that you're lazy, or maybe even that you're stupid, but graduating Evergreen could give them the impression that you're a radical psychopath. If Evergreen wants to recover, they need to change that impression, and in order to change that impression, they need to publicly disown the direction of the college for the past 5 years.

I started watching Benjamin’s videos about 2 months ago. I was briefly reminded of the Evergreen incident one day and wanted to find information since I hadn’t really understood it all at the time. I figured I’d watch an episode or two. I have finally completed watching the Complete Evergreen series as well as Exposé Evergreen. And I’m hoping Benjamin has more because I don’t know how I’m supposed to get through my evenings without this.

I like how you show the students attending the various seminars Bridges introduced in the months before the protests, juxtaposing them like that. It brings home the fact that while one can (rightly) criticise their behaviour, their pseudo-activism is very much taught and spoon-fed to them. This fact, and the fact that they're just caught up in a mass hysteria fuelled by false accusations, lies, rumours, current news stories, threats from outside the college, their own echo chambers and a spoon-fed and poorly thought out ideology... it does help me understand and put in context their preposterous behaviour a lot more. It shows why the students alone shouldn't be blamed, mocked and criticised - their words and actions were fully enabled and encouraged by those with power over them (faculty and staff). P.S. I love it every time you give George a good mocking. The guy is a glutton for punishment, after all. ;-)

I used to feel bad for George Bridges, assuming he had good intentions, and then I saw his yearly salary. He just went along with everything because he was making mad money. I want $300k a year. 🤑🤑🤑💰💰💸

You want to watch for those teachers who have a resume of failed alternate schools that they were the dean of.

Have they found anyone who will risk their health and reputation to take on the challenge of turning this disaster around, or is it impossible at this point?

I watched the fall of Evergreen from start to finish, and I'm watching this now. How these people managed to learn _nothing_ is part and parcel of the "left" (or whatever you want to call them) and their worldview. God willing we can mitigate and weather the damage they've caused to these kids.

Bravo Benjamin! Whatta great video. Thank you.

Bridges has no idea what a complete failure he is. How would you like to live in his world?

I grew up in a hyper religious household. My parents involved themselves in some really really scary and mental organisations. This reminds me of those religious organisations.

"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." (1911) - Booker Taliaferro Washington

Bridges is staying on to teach? Suggest he can't get a job elsewhere. I'm curious what there summer reserve is now... because, in the 2019-2020 chart, it looked like they will run out money in the 2022-2023 school year.

On enrollment decline: "Can we keep every student? Probably not. So who do we blame? Everyone and no one. -George Bridges

Oh, Christ. I just want to thank Benjamin for this. I've been fascinated with George Bridges from the first Evergreen video I ever saw, five years ago. The man is an absolute psychotic monster who continues to dedicate his life to poisoning kids with a level of race-based indoctrinated hatred that would make Joseph Goebbels blush. It would be super interesting if you could do follow up videos on all the characters from the Evergreen saga-- a sort-of, "Where are they now..." compellation. Basically, take that infamous picture of the Woke gang standing on a deck holding baseball bats, and tell us which Starbucks each one of them work at.

I would never let my kid go here. Ever ever

G. Michael Hopf’s quote comes to mind: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” He can pat himself on the back for “caring”. I don’t think he’ll ever allow himself to see how he contributed to the destruction of the institution he purported to lead. It’s disgusting.

I'm wondering how soiled the degrees from Evergreen will be/is seeing as not everyone can "redeem" themselves as publicly as our content creator. And this is a huge elephant in the room that the administration cleverly won't address

Thank You for this posting. I went and got my student out of there just this week. I wish you would have posted it sooner. Its unbelievable what is going on there right now.

What a critical example Bridges is of Jordan Peterson's "harmless man." Excellent job, Benjamin.

Excellent video. I loved the way you 'intersected' George's sanctimonious bletherings with the year-on-year hard data of collapsing student intake and retention. George can pontificate all he wants. The numbers tell the real story.

Who’s going to be Evergreen’s President after the 3 candidates bailed?

Thanks Benjamin. Scary stuff

2:45 - 6:45 Benjamin Boyce you are a very naughty man! LOL! I’m sure you had fun editing this..It’s truly great.

He was waving his hands around in a few of those. Scary.

The cut @5:55 is a masterpiece of editing.

I'm french and I look at all this from a distance, eventhough I did follow what happened. I am surprised by the idea that Bridges seems unable to understand that he is part of the problem and, as such, he cannot and should be part of the attempt to find solutions. This man should be discarded. I guess that no other university in USA will touch him. This man is toxic. But he will continue to bring bad vibes on that university as long as he will be on campus. In other words, I think that this university will keep going down, and that the students will keep suffering. Congratulations for Benjamin Boyce for his videos. I have looked at a few of them already. I will keep watching. Rgds

Nice editing there Benjamin

Hahaha, perfectly timed ad break 😂

the man's a fuchtardian of the highest order who would have done well in a gulag offering up his fellow prisoners for punishment to ingratiate himself to the guards.

It's an old trick ... give artificially low projections and then announce the "good" news that your actual numbers beat the low prediction!

I saw that episode. "To Serve Man." The aliens landed, ended war, illness and starvation. Spoiler alert. It was a cookbook.

Only 6 min in and this is already a fun romp

Evergreen has succeeded in its goal advocated by students, guest speakers, and facility to dismantle and deconstruct the institutions. Perhaps a future Tech Mogul will purchase the land and buildings, putting it to more productive use for professional administrators and STEM graduates.

Sometimes I think educators/administrators from elementary school thru college are some of the stupidest people. We spend so much time doing all the wrong things. 31st in math literacy out of 79 countries and economies. Pathetic.

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. At this point, George needs to be committed.

George’s earnest attempts to get it right and be a good guy and to seek help to improve enrollment while enacting policies that drive students to quit and transfer elsewhere is excruciatingly painful to watch. Good work Benjamin!

I don't know what it is, but the picture of the "equity symposium" @24:08 just has me focused on the little kid at the center of the frame and the impending sense of doom I have for him and other young men to-be like him. Caption contest?!

Every time I try to watch these evergreen snippets , I end up having to cut out. It is just PAINFUL 😣 soooo much stoopid

Inadequate students, in Inadequate numbers. That's what they played for. Stupid game, stupid prize.

@36:00 when you start asking the rhetorical questions about whether or not it's a good idea to upend the entire system to try in vain to make everyone fit, the answer is 'of course not'. Not only is it destructive to the institution, but any challenge worth taking on is going to have some rate of failure. The ideological push to eliminate failure and to include everyone is ultimately guaranteed to succeed when we are all in the grave. Until then, there will always be people who can screw up a cup of coffee and we need to stop destroying institutions to make them seem less pathetic.

US military leaders in Vietnam, 1960s: "We had to destroy the village to save it." George Bridges, 2021: "I had to destroy the college to make it equitable." Nothing says diversity and inclusion like tanking enrollment and low retention rates.

Who knew the face of true evil would be bland and pudgy. With his dim eyed certainty and jowls stiffened with conceit he looks dreary and hideous all at once.

Okay, who else here is playing a game of guessing which face Benjamin will transition into next?

I have no idea how you have kept your sanity!

Very good video. This school is done, no pretending otherwise. Campus can be turned into a rehab center and mental health facility which Washington needs (whole west coast does). Not even being sarcastic that's a good use of this facility, could help thousands. No one should be living on the streets by choice or not.

Its sort of painful to watch this mans fall in such exclusive and brilliant detail

George "mouth noise" Bridges

This is straight out of Atlas Shrugged. This guy reminds me of Wesley Mouch, the sniveling, spineless bureaucrat from that novel.

That insignia at 21:22 killed me 🤣

The fact that George Bridges got another job in the field of education after this debacle is evidence of miracles.

You're a creative sleuth. I respect that. PS: 24:06 this lad's like "where are the boys even at?". Ah... my son... they are nowhere.

Times must be tough when the best thing you can say about an educational institution is that there hasn't been any shootings.

Did he ever get to pee?

Even if all his "Bridges" 🌁🌉were burned, he made off with over $1 Million.

I never fully underastood the word "useless" until I learned of this man.

Within the past week, there’s been a racial reckoning of some sort in my graduate program. Feels very, very similar to what I’ve watched throughout this long ass evergreen documentary. I’m really hoping that I’m just catastrophizing being that I’ve been aware of this trend for a while, but holy shit it sure seems similar. I’ve been doing my best to speak out against it. It’s quite lonely though.

This fool gives his final adieu wih the word Equity. Going down with the ship.

As a recovering HEROIN addict..i can see how VICTIMHOOD can become AS ADDICTIVE as Heroin

Checked the 2020 headcount numbers. According to the official page, the actual fall 2020 enrollment was 2,281. TESC is on track for ~1900 students this fall.

This is what happens when you combine a college with an "autonomous zone".

Ahh, a best of George clip!

im surprized that it is still open...

'That is not a cliff' lmao

George would have done better to not talk rather than trying to sell a sinking ship.

OMG, I know Benjamin caught it as he zooms in out it. But watch at the 1:10 marker. His eyes look up multiple times at the camera waiting for the QUEUE. LOL

If an opponent had wanted to make things look as bad as possible, they'd do what Dr Bridges showed in his slide (e.g. at 14:17)! They could have made it look less like 'a cliff' by starting the vertical axis at zero.

This is really hard to watch