| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.14 |
| Liaison | Bremen Leak |
| Submission Date | July 10, 2024 |
Brigham Young University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.03 / 8.00 |
Bremen
Leak Associate Director Sustainability & Continuity |
Has the institution adopted one or more sustainability learning outcomes that apply to the entire student body or, at minimum, to the institution's predominant student body?:
Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
The aims of a BYU education state, “A BYU education ... prepares students ... to improve the moral, social, and ecological environment in which they and their families live.” All instruction, programs, and services should therefore contribute "toward the balanced development of the total person," preparing individuals to "meet personal challenge and change" and bring "strength to others in the tasks of home and family life, social relationships, civic duty, and service to mankind." Students are likewised encouraged to care for one another and to care for the earth, as President Russell M. Nelson of BYU's sponsoring institution, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, taught in an April 2000 worldwide message.
Total number of graduates from degree programs:
Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
Degree programs with at least one sustainability-related learning outcome were counted as requiring an understanding of the concept of sustainability. In the attached inventory (see the "Learning Outcomes" tab), the 35 programs with at least one sustainability-FOCUSED learning outcome are marked as green. The number of graduates of these programs appears, provided by Enrollment Services' Academic Reports team, also appears in the attached inventory.
Programs with at least one sustainability-INCLUSIVE learning outcome are marked as yellow and do not include graduate counts, as those programs with sustainability-FOCUSED learning outcomes do.
A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Website URL where information about the sustainability learning outcomes is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
See sheet 2 of the attached spreadsheet: Learning Outcomes.
Total graduates in 2022 = 4,533 (April) + 912 (June) + 666 (August) + 1,561 (December) = 7,672 (see the "Degree Recipient Demographics" tab under "Statistics for Graduation."): https://enrollment.byu.edu/registrar/graduation-by-the-numbers
Number of students who graduated in 2022 from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability came from Academic Reports on 5/16/24. See attached inventory.
Aims of a BYU Education (see "Intellectually Enlarging"): https://aims.byu.edu/aims-of-a-byu-education
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