Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 72.78
Liaison Troy Goodnough
Submission Date Feb. 10, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Minnesota, Morris
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.23 / 8.00 Troy Goodnough
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
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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:
UMN Morris also has a set of Student Learning Outcomes that shapes a student's education. One particular learning outcome covers all of our graduates and is sustainability-related:

Morris Student Learning Outcome #3: An Understanding of the Roles of Individuals in Society, through active involvement with diverse communities and challenges, including:

• Civic knowledge and engagement—local and global
• Intercultural knowledge and competence
• Aesthetic/artistic engagement
• Environmental stewardship
• Ethical reasoning and actions

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KRBBqd_QQYE9ldvyxQ8IDPO9iL3YFA2f (p. 5)

Part 2. Program-level sustainability learning outcomes

Total number of graduates from degree programs:
388

Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
108

A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
UMN Morris has data about: 1) how many students graduate from each major, 2) what disciplines have adopted the Sustainability Learning Outcome (SLO), which is described below. With the data from 1 and 2 above we are able to determine how many students graduate from each program, and how many of them graduated from a program that have adopted the SLO.

A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
The following disciplines below have the same sustainability-related learning outcome below.

Sustainability Learning Outcome:
Students will develop an understanding of sustainability (including social and environmental dimensions) from a [Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, etc.] discipline perspective.

Disciplines subject to this learning outcome:
Anthropology
Biology
Chemistry
Environmental Studies
Environmental Science
Geology
Philosophy
Theatre

Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
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:
27.84

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:
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