Michael Zimmerman is vice-president for academic affairs and provost at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. and founder and director of the Clergy Letter Project. In 2004, he organized a letter-writing effort among Wisconsin clergy to ask Grantsburg, Wis., school officials to keep evolution at the center of the district’s science education. The district had earlier agreed to include alternative theories to be taught, but then reversed itself. About 200 clergy from Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist and other churches wrote letters to school administrators asking them not to single out evolution for “special scrutiny.” The campaign turned into the nationwide campaign known as the Clergy Letter Project, which has collected more than 10,000 signatures.
| Website | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Zimmerman_(biologist) |
| Email address | provost@evergreen.edu |
| Email address 2 | mz@theclergyletterproject.org |
| Phone number | 360-867-6400 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, education, Science & health |
| Locations | North America, United States of America, Washington |
| Languages | English |