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Michigan State University: Academic governance endorsed a set of institutional learning goals and constituted the University Committee on Liberal Learning to serve as stewards of the goals. The committee focused on delineating learning outcomes, formulating ways of creating coherence and transparency across all aspects of the curriculum and co-curriculum, assessing learning outcomes, and communicating outcomes to the university community. The goals focus on students’ abilities to integrate discipline-based knowledge within a liberal arts context; make informed decisions that reflect humane, social, ethical, and aesthetic values; utilize a variety of media to communicate effectively; comprehend global and cultural diversity; reason using scientific and quantitative knowledge; critically analyze information using multiple methods; and become effective citizens of local, national, and global communities. Faculty developed and implemented assessment instruments for Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning and, based on newly designed rubrics, pre-post test information has been gathered in first year writing courses. The remaining four learning goals will be the focus of work over the next four years. The Liberal Learning Goals have been mapped to data from the National Survey of Student Engagement and to a series of longitudinal surveys conducted by MSU Residence Life. Survey results provide a better understanding of student behaviors and the extent to which students gain the knowledge, attitudes and skills associated with the institutional learning goals. Importantly, these data provide valuable information that will drive curricular change.
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