Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 70.33
Liaison Neha Sood
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Rochester Institute of Technology
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.86 / 8.00 Enid Cardinal
Senior Sustainability Advisor to the President
Office of the President
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Part 1. Institutional sustainability learning outcomes

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:
Examine connections among the world’s populations: Acting wisely as global citizens requires the ability to imagine how one’s choices affect other people; courses in this category encourage students to see life from a perspective wider than their own and to understand the diversity of human cultures within an interconnected global society. Courses in this category may explore the interconnectedness of the local and the global in today’s world or in historical examples, and encourage students to see how global forces reverberate at the local level.

Part 2. Program-level sustainability learning outcomes

Total number of graduates from degree programs:
4,040

Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
1,445

A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
A subcommittee of Academic Senate reviewed a list of all RIT academic degree program goals and student learning outcomes. The committee then developed a list of search terms to help identify sustainability goals/outcomes contained in the spreadsheet. The following terms were used: sustain, environment, equity, social responsibility, global, ethical, systems thinking. The filtered results were then reviewed by the committee to identify which programs included all three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) in the learning outcome.

A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Computer Aided Drafting Technology AAS/AOS
Industrial Design BFA Program
Interior Design BFA Program
Environmental sustainability, Health and Safety BS
Media Arts and Technology BS
Packaging Science BS
International and global studies BS
Political science
Business – Marketing
Business Admin/ International busi.
Business Admin/Accounting (Bachelor’s)
Business Management
Management Information Systems
New Media Marketing
Mechanical Engineering BS Program
Software Engineering (BS)
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Microelectronic Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Environmental Sciences BS Program
Industrial Design MFA Program
Environmental Health and Safety Management MS
Packaging Science MS Program
Print Media MS Program
STS (MS)
Hospitality and Tourism Management MS
Engineering Management ME
Sustainable Engineering ME
Sustainable Engineering MS
Chemistry MS Program
Environmental Sciences MS
Master of Architecture
Sustainable Systems MS
PHD Engineering
Sustainability PhD

Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Learning_outcomes.xlsx

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
35.77

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability learning outcomes is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The numbers reflect the 2019-2020 academic year.

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