Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.13
Liaison Traci Knabenshue
Submission Date March 3, 2021

STARS v2.2

West Virginia University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.15 / 8.00 Traci Knabenshue
Sustainability Direcor
Auxiliary and Business Services
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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?:
No

Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
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A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
WVU does not issue institution-level learning outcomes.

Part 2. Program-level sustainability learning outcomes

Total number of graduates from degree programs:
40,302

Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
739

A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
WVU's Assistant Provost for Curriculum and Assessment came up with a list of majors for us from U.S. Department of Education Classification of Instructional Programs codes and his own institutional knowledge. We then inspected all learning outcomes from each of those programs to determine which has clearly articulated sustainability requirements.

A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Forest Resources Management
Environmental and Energy Resource Management
Energy Land Management
Wood Science and Technology
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Wildlife and Fisheries Resources
Environmental and Community Planning
Fashion, Dress and Merchandising
Landscape Architecture
Master of Environmental Geology
Master of Landscape Architecture
Energy and Sustainability Development LLM
Community Development Policy and Practice (Certificate)

Sustainable Food Farming* This program is new and has not existed long enough to matriculate graduates.

Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Three

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
1.83

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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