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Gabe Estill, Director of Academic Assessment 18 th Annual Community College Assessment Fair February 21, 2014 Moraine V

Sustainability and Assessment. Gabe Estill, Director of Academic Assessment 18 th Annual Community College Assessment Fair February 21, 2014 Moraine Valley Community College. About My Institution. Located in Palos Hills, IL 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago

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Gabe Estill, Director of Academic Assessment 18 th Annual Community College Assessment Fair February 21, 2014 Moraine V

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  1. Sustainability and Assessment Gabe Estill, Director of Academic Assessment 18th Annual Community College Assessment Fair February 21, 2014 Moraine Valley Community College

  2. About My Institution • Located in Palos Hills, IL • 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago • District population: ~400,000 • District square miles: 139 • Approximately 18,000 students

  3. College’s Official Sustainability Statement • “Moraine Valley Community College will carry out actions in all operations, academics, and in our community that meet current needs, while taking care to protect and enhance the social, environmental and economic resources needed by future generations to enjoy a quality of life equal to or greater than the present.”

  4. Center for Sustainabilitymorainevalley.edu/sustainability

  5. Major Accomplishments

  6. Three Primary Focus Areas • Operations • Teaching • Assessment

  7. Operations • Facilities • Waste • Food Service

  8. Teaching • Greening Your Curriculum (GYC) Project

  9. GYC Program • 6-week Online MVLA (Moraine Valley Learning Community) course • 6-week online GYC 102A – Green Economy & Social Justice • 6-week online GYC 102B – Eco-Literacy & Local Connections • 20-hour face-2-face Prairie Project • Various other 1-4 CTL (Center for Teaching & Learning) hour workshops – online & face-2-face

  10. Assessment • Wait. What about student learning?

  11. Origins of Sustainability and Assessment at MVCC • 2011 Sustainability Symposium • AQIP General Education Project Why Gen Ed? • AQIP Action Project • Sustainability as a Gen Ed Outcome • Multiple disciplines • Create well-rounded students

  12. Merger between Sustainability and Gen Ed • Why Gen Ed? • AQIP Action Project • Sustainability as a Gen Ed Outcome • Multiple disciplines • Create well-rounded students

  13. Getting Started Our Definition of Assessment • Measuring, documenting, and improving student learning • Answers three primary questions: 1.) What do we want students to know and be able to do? 2.) How will we know? 3.) How will we improve?

  14. Main goal • Gradual building of sustainability into the academic community at Moraine Valley by infusing sustainability into the curriculum across the disciplines

  15. The Process Address two needs: 1.) Create measurable outcome 2.) Develop rubric 3.) Provide assignment criteria 4.) Collect data 5.) Analyze data 6.) Use the results

  16. Gen Ed Learning Outcome Students will: Recognize one’s legal, ethical, social, and sustainable responsibilities

  17. But how? Students will: 1.) Identify the ecological processes and how choices affect the environment 2.) Demonstrate awareness of social justice and equity issues and their impact on the global population 3.) Distinguish ethically responsible business practices.

  18. Rubric: brainstorm and development Two 90 minute sessions: • Define meaning • Create device

  19. Rubric: brainstorm and development Team tasked with creating a rubric that could be used easily across a variety of courses that infuse sustainability into their curricular and instructional practices. Two Admin (Sustainability and Assessment) Two Faculty (Biology and History)

  20. The Rubric • http://www.morainevalley.edu/studentassessment/pdf/SustainabilityInfoSheetRubric.pdf

  21. Pilot Four courses in Spring 12 • BIO 112 • EAS 120 • EAS 125 • NAT 111 N = 312 Included additional courses in Fall 12

  22. Results • Strengths: Relevancy • Opportunities: Application

  23. Results • Strength: Relevancy • Opportunity: Application

  24. Using the Results • Weave into department assessment plans • Create resources bank for instructors • Keep measuring, keep documenting, and keep improving • Indirect offshoots of this project (in development): • Sustainability 101 course • Green graduation designation

  25. My Questions for You 1.) What are your institutions’ challenges related to sustainability? 2.) What are your institutions’ challenges related to assessment? 3.) Do your institutions have a sustainability credential for students? 4.) What are the holes in higher education’s commitment and practices related to sustainability?

  26. Resources and Contact For more information and resources, visit http://www.morainevalley.ede/sustainability http://www.morainevalley.edu/studentassessment Contact info: estillj@morainevalley.edu pressellers@morainevalley.edu zurawski@morainevalley.edu

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