2011 Annual Report - Kankakee Community College

Sustainability
Measurable Goal
3. % student
understanding of
sustainability principles
4. % curricula
incorporating
sustainability concepts
What will you do to achieve
the goal?
- Identify a student
population to
measure
- Pre and post test
- Greening Your
Curriculum (GYC)
course
offered
- identify
Sustainability
Courses in course
catalog
- engage faculty in
Sustainability
discussions
When?
Timeline
Pilot Fall
2010
Pilot Fall
2010
How will you know
you accomplished
your goal?
Test scores will
improve
# of courses incorporating
sustainability
will increase
What Macro
/Micro
Scorecard
Target will be
addressed by
this goal?
Macro – Student
understanding
of
sustainability
principles
Micro – curricula
incorporating
sustainability
concepts
Use this
chart to provide
midyear
Accomplishments
submitted to
SPOC
January
Use this chart to provide
end-of-year Accomplishments
submitted to SPOC
May
6 Freshman students
quizzed to establish baseline
level of knowledge
These students got an average
of 51% of 27 quiz questions
correct
13 faculty in 13 different
program areas took a “GYC”
course in Fall 2010
These faculty all developed
lesson plans to incorporate
Sustainability into classes.
GYC eight-hour course approved
as professional development
for all faculty
members. Plans to make
the course a hybrid with preand
post-meeting assignments
60 courses in 32 program
areas were identified as
containing Sustainability
Provide detailed
recommendations
for next year
Follow-up with retest
of pilot group prior to
graduation 2012
Goal = 80% correct
average
at graduation
Administer quiz to
new group of Freshman
students in Fall
2011
Offer GYC program
again in Fall 2011
Use same approach
to train faculty and
develop Sustainability
content lesson plans
Develop a way to
designate courses
listed in catalog as
having Sustainability
content
Target = 5% of
courses with Sustainability
designation
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