Colorado Mountain College
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Colorado Mountain College Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs).

See number 2 below which includes a focus on integral social, economic, and environmental well-being. Graduates of educational programs at CMC demonstrate the following outcomes. See also the online list of these outcomes, specifically the explanded definitiion for "Involvement" (https://coloradomtn.edu/academics/islo/?ss360SearchTerm=institutional%20learning%20outcomes). For each program, students will demonstrate one or more subcomponents of each outcome.

Students will demonstrate various intellectual and practical skills for personal, creative, and professional pursuits by learning about human cultures and the world around us. Learning experiences are focused on engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring, and practiced extensively across the curriculum and co-curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance.

Competencies and Dimensions:

Inquiry and Analysis:

• Identify a topic -Incorporate information & existing research
• Integrate various points of view
• Select or develop a design process
• Analyze and interpret evidence
• Draw conclusions Critical and Creative Thinking: Creative:
• Demonstrate originality & ingenuity
• Take risks -Solve problems
• Embrace contradictions
• Think innovatively
• Connect, synthesize, and transform ideas

 Critical:

• Explain an issue(s)
• Utilize context – relevance of context
• Utilize context – identify assumptions
• Formulate an argument
• Incorporate evidence
• Understand implications & make conclusionsCommunication Written and Oral:

Oral:

• Illustrate organization
• Develop a central message
• Address language
• Execute delivery
• Integrate content and supporting material

Written:

• Employ rhetorical knowledge
• Develop content, including visual
• Apply genre and disciplinary conventions
• Use sources and evidence
• Control syntax, mechanics, and visuals

Quantitative Literacy:

• Interpret information
• Represent information
• Perform calculations
• Apply and analyze information
• Communicate using mathematical forms
• Address assumptions (stats) Information Literacy:
• Determine the extent of information needed
• Access the needed information
• Evaluate information critically
• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
• Use information ethically and legally Teamwork/Collaboration:
• Contribute to team meetings
• Facilitate the contributions of team members
• Contribute individually outside of team meetings
• Foster a constructive team climate
• Respond to conflict

Problem-Solving:

• Define a problem -Propose a strategy
• Evaluate potential strategies
• Apply a strategy
• Evaluate results

2. Students will develop the knowledge and skills to serve and contribute to the integral social, economic, and environmental well-being of local and global communities in order to enact the college’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Learning experiences will be anchored in active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges.

Competencies and Dimensions:

Civic Knowledge and Engagement—Local and Global:

• Promote diversity of communities and cultures 
• Connect and extend civic knowledge
• Relate civic identity to civic values and commitment
• Utilize civic communication
• Lead civic action and reflection
• Collaborate across civic contexts/structures

Global Learning: 

• Build self-awareness
• Examine perspectives
• Promote diversity
• Share personal and social responsibility
• Understand the social, economic, and environmental well-being of local and global systems
• Apply knowledge to contemporary global contexts

Intercultural Knowledge and Competence:

• Espouse cultural self-awareness
• Understand cultural worldview frameworks
• Practice empathy
• Communicate verbally and nonverbally
• Nurture curiosity -Possess openness attitudes

Ethical Reasoning and Action: 

• Espouse ethical self-awareness
• Understand different ethical perspectives/concepts
• Recognize ethical issues
• Apply ethical perspectives/concepts
• Evaluate different ethical perspectives/concepts

3. Students will pose challenging questions, address complex issues, and develop cooperative and creative responses through integrated, multidisciplinary, and innovative experiences. Learning experiences will be focused on the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems.

Competencies and Dimensions:

Synthesis and Advanced Accomplishment Across General and Specialized Studies:

• Connect to experience 
• Connect to discipline
• Transfer knowledge
• Integrate communication
• Reflect and self-assess

Foundations and Skills for Lifelong Learning:

• Nurture curiosity
• Enact initiative
• Pursue independence
• Transfer knowledge
• Reflect and self-assess

To gather a total graduate count for students, it was necessary to reach out to institutional research to gather the required numbers. A staff member from institutional research was able to send a complete count of all graduates from FA22 - SP23  with the degrees that students graduated from.

First, we established that we would take graduates from the 2022-2023 academic year. This included graduates from the Fall of 2022 and Spring of 2023 semesters. After establishing the academic year, we counted the graduates from degree programs that required an understanding of sustainability. By going to each degree program on the Colorado Mountain College degree program website: https://coloradomtn.edu/programs/.

For each degree program that students graduated from, we checked to see if the learning outcomes included aspects of sustainability. If the learning outcomes included aspects of sustainability, then the degree program required an understanding of sustainability. If the learning outcomes did not include aspects of sustainability, or it was questionable, we looked at which courses were offered in the said degree program via AC-1. If at least one course was sustainability-focused, we counted this degree program as 'requiring an understanding of the concept of sustainability'.

• AA.ENV - AA: Environmental Studies Emphasis
• AGS.ORL - AGS: Outdoor Recreation Leadership
• AS.E - AS: Environmental Science Emphasis
• AS.ESM - AS: Ecosystem Science & Stewardship Emphasis
• BA.SS - BA: Sustainability Studies
• BA.SSB - BA: Sustainability Studies Business Emphasis
• BS.BA - BS: Business Administration
• BS.BAACC - BS: Business Administration - Accounting
• BS.BAENT - BS: Business Administration - Entrepreneurship
• BS.BAFIN - BS: Business Administration - Finance
• BS.BAMGT - BS: Business Administration - Management
• BS.BAMIS - BS: Business Administration - Management Info Systems
• BS.BAMKT - BS: Business Administration - Marketing
• BS.BARES - BS: Business Administration - Resort Management
• BS.BASKB - BS: Business Administration - Ski & Snowboard Business
• BS.BASUS - BS: Business Administration - Sustainable Business

Data Sources: All data were retrieved from the Colorado Mountain College catalog (https://catalog.coloradomtn.edu/) and Helen Andersen (Registrar). Registrar data can be found in the uploaded spreadsheet titled: AC-2-degree programs inventory-FINAL