Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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Overall Score | 70.35 |
Liaison | Katie Maynard |
Submission Date | March 2, 2018 |
Executive Letter | Download |
University of California, Santa Barbara
AC-2: Learning Outcomes
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.09 / 8.00 |
Katie
Maynard Sustainability Coordinator Geography & Sustainability |
Total number of graduates from degree programs (i.e. majors, minors, concentrations, certificates, and other academic designations):
Number of students that graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
Percentage of students who graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Does the institution specify sustainability learning outcomes at the institution level (e.g. covering all students)?:
Does the institution specify sustainability learning outcomes at the division level (e.g. covering particular schools or colleges within the institution)?:
A list or brief description of the institution level or division level sustainability learning outcomes:
Does the institution specify sustainability learning outcomes at the program level (i.e. majors, minors, concentrations, degrees, diplomas, certificates, and other academic designations)?:
A list or brief description of the program level sustainability learning outcomes (or a list of sustainability-focused programs):
Do course level sustainability learning outcomes contribute to the figure reported above (i.e. in the absence of program, division, or institution level learning outcomes)?:
A list or brief description of the course level sustainability learning outcomes and the programs for which the courses are required:
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We focused on program-level learning outcomes because this was the level where we had the most complete set of outcomes.
The above calculation includes the number of students who graduated from a program with at least one sustainability learning outcome over the two-year period from 2014-15 to 2015-16. This total number of graduates from all degree programs is likewise calculated over the same two-year period. We were only able to use data from this period because data from the 2016-2017 year is not yet available and the 2017-2018 year is still in progress.
We likely double-counted on double-majors, due to the difficulty in separating that data out.
Learning outcomes were mostly pulled from the Assessment of Student Learning, completed as part of the WASC Accreditation process (http://assessment.ucsb.edu/plo). We used the WASC outcomes to justify undergraduate learning outcomes.
We could not find specific program-level outcomes at the Graduate level; the WASC outcomes were more general and did not adequately address each specific program. For this, we used information from credit AC 4 (Graduate Programs). More information about the PhD and MESM in Environmental Science and Management can be found below, respectively:
http://bren.ucsb.edu/academics/phd.html
http://bren.ucsb.edu/academics/MESM.html
In reporting, we ensured that we only included degree programs with learning outcomes that addressed all three components of sustainability: environment, economy, and society, or that at least included environmental issues and broadly addressed “impacts to society” (which we counted as the social/economic side).
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.