Calvin University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

All graduates of Calvin College must meet the Core Requirements. One of the Core Curriculum principles (sec. 5.9 Stewardship -- see below) includes sustainability. Stewardship is a core virtue that is an expected learning for every student of every program at Calvin. How to best assess this learning outcome by program is a consistent challenge that programs face. From "An Engagement with God’s World: the Core Curriculum of Calvin College:" (found online here: https://www.calvin.edu/admin/provost/documents/core-curriculum.pdf) 5.9 Stewardship The world and all it contains has been entrusted by God to the care of the human race. We are to cultivate it, tend to it, learn from it, delight in it, develop its manifold potentials, and manage it in ways that benefit the entire human community and other living members of the bio-sphere. We are not to waste it, spoil it, or use it up for ourselves at the expense of others. Yet there are many forces in our culture that would prompt us to squander the time, talent, and resources that God has graciously placed at our disposal. We often treat our natural environment as if it were infinitely resilient; we sometimes spend our days as if we had all the time in the world; we discard our things as if there will always be more; we expend our energy on frivolous activities as if there will always be time for the important things later; we let our talents lie fallow as if there will always be someone else to take up the slack. The community at Calvin College should strive to set a good example in the wise management of time, talent, energy, and resources. Students at Calvin should become aware of the irreplaceable value of the gifts God has given them and the responsibilities attached to those gifts, and thus come to see themselves as stewards, not mere users, of the creation. Where appropriate, issues of stewardship should be addressed in our classrooms; where possible, students should be invited to participate in activities on and off campus that manifest care for God’s creation--mending what is broken, cleaning what is soiled, nurturing the frail, conserving the scarce, saving the valuable.

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The Calvin Core curriculum virtue of "Stewardship" is nearly identical to the use of the term sustainability. It is a learning outcome for all Calvin Students, but currently there is not an explicit list of college-wide learning outcomes that are routinely assessed.