| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 54.92 |
| Liaison | Leila Lamoureux |
| Submission Date | Dec. 9, 2024 |
Babson College
AC-2: Undergraduate Programs
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
9.33 / 15.00 |
David
Blodgett Associate Professor Faculty |
2.1 Institutional sustainability learning outcomes for undergraduate students
Online resource detailing the institutional learning outcomes for undergraduate students:
Publication detailing the institutional learning outcomes for undergraduate students:
Are one or more of the institutional learning outcomes for undergraduate students sustainability-focused?:
Text of each institutional learning outcome for undergraduate students that qualifies as sustainability-focused:
Integrated Sustainability
Recognize and apply integrated systems approaches to simultaneously address social responsibility, ecological integrity, and value creation in decision-making processes.
Are one or more of the institutional learning outcomes for undergraduate students sustainability-supportive?:
Text of each institutional learning outcome for undergraduate students that qualifies as sustainability-supportive:
Communication
Develop and express ideas strategically, through written, oral, and visual formats, to a specific audience for a desired purpose.
Problem Solving
Analyze and assess ideas and data to make decisions and recommendations appropriate to situations and stakeholders.
Ethics
Identify, analyze and resolve ethical issues arising in the professional context.
Collaboration
Collaborate with and learn from others to accomplish a common goal or create an original work.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Lead people to recognize and act on opportunities with consideration of context.
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2.2 Undergraduate programs with sustainability-focused learning requirements
List and description of the institution’s sustainability-focused degrees, certificates, and majors for undergraduate students:
Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused concentration or minor for undergraduate students?:
List and description of the institution’s sustainability-focused concentrations and minors for undergraduate students:
Environmental Sustainability
It’s vital that all entrepreneurs and young professionals, whatever the field, have a clear understanding of what environmental sustainability is. Particularly, it’s imperative professionals know how their environmental business decisions affect ecosystems, natural resources, and future generations.
The environmental sustainability concentration is a study of how sustainability has become a primary driver for innovation, social justice, and business success as supply chains became more transparent over the last few decades.
Does the institution offer at least one undergraduate qualification focused on a subject other than sustainability that has a sustainability-focused learning requirement?:
List and description of the institution’s undergraduate qualifications focused on subjects other than sustainability that have sustainability-focused learning requirements:
Justice, Citizenship, & Social Responsibility
When you learn about social justice, you explore how individuals and communities construct and find meaning in the world around them.
The justice, citizenship, and social responsibility concentration gives you an understanding of how cultural and ethical structures are inherited, cultivated, and perpetuated locally and globally, and how they animate and orient human experience. It’s a great counterpart to your business degree and pairs well with other concentrations such as entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, legal studies, leadership, and social and cultural studies.
As you learn about social justice and social responsibility, you will take at least one philosophy course and round out your four-course study with choices across other disciplines, including history, environmental, and civil rights courses. You will also get a deeper understanding of integrating these elements into the workpalce, specially with corporate social responsibiliy courses.
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2.3 Percentage of undergraduate qualifications awarded that have sustainability-focused learning requirements
Total number of undergraduate qualifications awarded:
Number of undergraduate qualifications awarded that are sustainability-focused:
Number of undergraduate qualifications awarded that are focused on subjects other than sustainability but have sustainability-focused learning requirements:
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*Babson only offers one degree program for all undergraduate students: Bachelor of Science in Business Management. Students can select from over 25 "concentrations" which are somewhat similar to majors at other campuses. A sustainability focused course is required for all undergraduates for the class of 2025; for the class of 2023, since these students have earned their qualification in Business Management, we have calculated the number of students who took at least one course with sustainability-focused learning requirements. These courses include those with SES or NST2 designations.
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