Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 31.41
Liaison Hannes Gerhardt
Submission Date April 20, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of West Georgia
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.82 / 8.00 Hannes Gerhardt
Sustainability Director
Department of Geosciences
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Number of students who graduated from a program that has adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
464

Total number of graduates from degree programs:
4,541

A copy of the list or inventory of degree, diploma or certificate programs that have sustainability learning outcomes:
A list of degree, diploma or certificate programs that have sustainability learning outcomes:

Document uploaded.


A list or sample of the sustainability learning outcomes associated with degree, diploma or certificate programs (if not included in an inventory above):

This is a partial list:
RN to Bachelor's Program, corresponding sustainability learning outcome: Students will participate in analysis, critique, and reform of healthcare regulatory, policy, and financial systems that influence nursing and healthcare environments.
Further explanation: Healthcare environments include being in the world and interacting with the world; this includes persons, cultures, the healthcare system and other aspects of the constructed and natural world. A concern for environment is essential due to the social political, and economic influences on health and the healthcare system.

Master of Science of Nursing Program: Apply quality improvement and safety principles within an organization to improve education, and practice outcomes.
Further explanation: The MSN students design evidence based quality improvement projects to address current and future health related needs of our community of interest. Additionally, they evaluate organizational, political, cultural and economic trends that impact cost, safety and quality of healthcare.

Doctor of Education Program, corresponding sustainability learning outcome: Function as a change agent, innovator and leader with the continuous pursuit of quality improvement in the nurse educator role.
Further explanation:
As future nursing educational leaders, the EdD in nursing education students will apply aspects of inquiry, communication, and continuous evaluation to address future challenges to sustainability and responsibility at the local and global level. This critical analysis will include environmental, social, and economic dimensions to sustainability.

As future nursing educational innovators, the EdD in nursing education students will collaborate with other disciplines through interdisciplinary projects and research as a means to promote integrative thinking and practice to promote innovations.

Lastly, the EdD in nursing education students, as future nursing educational change agents, will engage themselves within the higher education community to promote activities and systems that are economically stable, environmentally sound, and socially just. Further, the students will function as change agents not only within the higher educational community but also the global community as ethical civic leaders who can impact sustainable global communities.


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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The numbers provided represent 2 years of graduates, (2012/2013 and 2013/2014).


The numbers provided represent 2 years of graduates, (2012/2013 and 2013/2014).

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