| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.54 |
| Liaison | C Jane Hagen |
| Submission Date | Sept. 3, 2024 |
Virginia Commonwealth University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.82 / 8.00 |
C Jane
Hagen Sustainability Data Analyst Sustainability |
Part 1. Institutional sustainability learning outcomes
Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
Embedded throughout VCU’s General Education Program are six learning goals intended to strengthen students’ academic and career readiness skills. These include the sustainability-supportive learning outcomes of: Communicative Fluency - Achieve positive outcomes with others through interpreting both verbal and nonverbal information, social perceptiveness, empathy, persuasion, and negotiation; able to select key pieces of a complex idea to express in words, sounds, and images, in order to build shared understanding Ethical Reasoning - Demonstrate the impact of ethical decision making on civic contexts and structures Global and Cultural Responsiveness - This competency’s primary goal, achievable only after several courses with this competency, is for students to advance equity and justice on local and global levels, well informed by historical and political contexts. - Demonstrate sensibility to actions’ consequent reciprocal reactions
Part 2. Program-level sustainability learning outcomes
Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
Total graduates were determined based on the most recent year with complete graduation data. Data is based on graduates from programs in Spring 2023, Summer 2023, and Fall 2023. Graduates from multiple programs are counted for each program they graduated from. Programs that required a sustainability-focused course or programs that had a sustainability focused learning outcome were used to determine the graduates of programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability. See documentation for individual program details.
A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Anthropology Bachelor's Biology Bachelor's Biology Master's Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's Chemical and Life Science Engineering Bachelor's Environmental Studies Bachelor's Environmental Studies Master's Geographic Information Systems Certificate Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Psychology Bachelor's Public Health Master's Science Bachelor's Sport Leadership Master's Sustainability Planning Certificate Sustainable Innovation Certificate Urban Revitalization Certificate Urban and Regional Planning Master's Urban and Regional Studies Bachelor's
Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
https://connected.vcu.edu/faculty/outcomes/
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