New York University
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

DEGREE LEVEL Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Graduates: 996 total enrolled Environmental Studies Program (cross-school, administered by NYU College of Arts and Science) Graduates: 146/year Minors: 36/year Estimated total: 728 Bioethics: Life, Health and Environment Program (cross-school, administered by NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science) Graduates: 10/year Estimated total: 20 Center on Environmental and Land Use Law (NYU School of Law) Graduates: 175/year Estimated total: 525 Environmental Conservation Education Program (NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development) Graduates: 60 total enrolled Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education (NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development) Graduates: 24/year Estimated total: 48 Certificate in Sustainable Design, Construction, and Development (NYU SCPS Schack Institute of Real Estate) Graduates: 150 total enrolled Science, Health & Environmental Reporting (NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Journalism) Graduates: 28/year Estimated total: 56 Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (Courant Institute of Mathematics) Graduates: 8 total enrolled Master of Science in Global Affairs (NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies) Graduates: 300 total enrolled Individualized Concentrations (NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study) Graduates (with sustainability-focused concentrations): 15/year Estimated total: 60 Stern Undergraduate and Graduate School of Business Students (taking specific sustainability-focused courses): Graduate: 1149/year Undergraduate: 625/year Estimated total: 7096 Core curriculum includes one or more sustainability-focused courses with specific subject matter which would necessitate proficiencies that correspond to sustainability learning outcomes, in order to graduate. Global Liberal Studies Program Graduates: x/year Half of degree seeking students take a core course in environmental science. Environmental Health Science (Graduate School of Arts and Science, and Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine) Graduates: X/year COURSE LEVEL Food Studies Program (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development) Students (specific sustainability-focused courses): 210 + PhDs, total Biology, Chemistry, Economics, History, Social and Cultural Analysis, Sociology, Urban Design and Architecture Studies (College and Graduate School of Arts and Science) Students (specific sustainability-focused courses): X/year Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU Tisch School of the Arts) ~80 taking sustainability-focused courses, total Available at http://www.nyu.edu/sustainability/academics.research/academic.programs.html

NYU is engaged in an active dialog with faculty around appropriate shared sustainability learning outcomes, and until this process is complete, the institution will not list individual attributes which do or do not constitute proficiency in sustainability for graduating students. However, principles and subjects similar to those with which the institution identified sustainability-focused coursework have been applied in estimating current student population engaging in coursework or academic programs which will generate these proficiencies.

To estimate how many students are reached by sustainability learning outcomes, NYU considered the following: 1) If an academic program has a specific "core course requirement" for a course in the "sustainability focused" listing (see ER-6), NYU assumed that the course standards for success require a student to internalize a learning outcome for sustainability, and counted all students in that academic program toward the goal. 2) If an academic program offers a course requirement for a sustainability-focused course but doesn't require students to take that course in particular, NYU asked the program how many of their students from the total take it. 3) If an academic program doesn't require the sustainability-focused course(s) listed, but specifically refers to sustainability learning outcomes in their overall program materials, their graduates were included. The numbers NYU generated are estimates based and were provided by academic programs on a voluntary basis. Not all programs had reported back at time of submission.