Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 32.46
Liaison Feng Teter
Submission Date Aug. 7, 2020

STARS v2.2

California State University, Fresno
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.05 / 8.00 Beth Weinman
Associate Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
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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?:
Yes

Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
Sustainability-supportive

A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:

1. Developing a foundational, broad and integrative knowledge - graduate students will articulate the implications of challenges within their field in a societal and global context.
2. Improving intellectual skills - ...skills to everyday problems and complex challenges. Graduate students will hone skills...to address local, regional, and global issues in their respective fields of study.
3. Applying Knowledge - by integrating theory, practice, and problem solving to address real world issues using both individual and team approaches.
4. Exemplifying equity, ethics, and engagement - students will form and effectively communicate their own evidence-based and reasoned views on public issues, interact with others to address social, environmental and economic challenges, apply knowledge of diversity and cultural competencies to promote equity and social justice in the classroom and community, value the complexity of ethical decision making in a diverse society, acknowledge the importance of standards in academic and professional integrity, and demonstrate honesty, tolerance, civility in social and academic interactions. Building upon this at the graduate level, students will apply these values in the creation of scholarly and/or aesthetic works that enrich the human experience.


Total number of graduates from degree programs:
12,011

Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
3,075

A brief description of how the figure above was determined:

The number of graduates from degree programs requiring a concept of sustainability was determined by reviewing the learning objectives of each major, and counting students graduating in the past two years from degrees that have standard operating assessment protocols (SOAPs) with measurable sustainability-related learning objectives. Tableau dashboards with degree data for 2018-19 and 2019-20 from our Office of Institutional Effectiveness was accessed 10/29/19 for the data.


A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:

Kinesiology
PMHNP Nursing
Public Health
Rec Administration
Biology
Environmental Science
Geology
Geography
Enology
Animal Science
Liberal Studies
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Construction Management
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering


Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Two

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
25.60

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:

Programs with clearly connected social and ecological dimensions have bee updated:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16s8624fcwC8iIiBL4kGLYe4YnaFPIcBe5bjMA-lRAqI/edit?usp=sharing
Programs currently without clear enough articulation have been removed from degree counts.
Tableau 11/20/20 degree counting for 18-19 and 19-20:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMYlSRvnmMHpac7sk_Usv3EE4dyw-Xie/view?usp=sharing


Programs with clearly connected social and ecological dimensions have bee updated:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16s8624fcwC8iIiBL4kGLYe4YnaFPIcBe5bjMA-lRAqI/edit?usp=sharing
Programs currently without clear enough articulation have been removed from degree counts.
Tableau 11/20/20 degree counting for 18-19 and 19-20:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMYlSRvnmMHpac7sk_Usv3EE4dyw-Xie/view?usp=sharing

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