Institutional Learning Goals
KU Institutional Learning Goals
Focused on enriching the student learning experience, KU established six institutional learning goals during academic year 2020-2021. The learning goals are intended to create a framework for aligning assessment efforts that are already occurring across all campuses and are an externalization of the university’s values around student learning.
Upon completion of their academic programs at KU, students will demonstrate:
Apply cognitive skills and a broad array of knowledge to promote inquiry, discover solutions, and generate new ideas and creative works.
Listen, question, and articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in a range of contexts using a variety of means and modalities.
Access, evaluate, and use qualitative and/or quantitative information to identify patterns, formulate and support interpretations.
Develop a critical and reflective awareness of social, global, and cultural differences (including ability, language, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, ethnicity, indigeneity, and/or race) and their impacts on relationships.
Demonstrate integrity and act responsibility with the interest of the larger community, environment, discipline, or profession in mind.
Establish, grow, and sustain productive relationships to effectively address key issues facing local, national, or global communities and solve problems that advance society.
Institutional Learning Goals Assessment
Institutional Learning Goal (ILG) assessment is conducted annually through assessment work that takes place in all undergraduate and graduate degree programs, the KU Core 34, and co-curricular units.
Academic and co-curricular programs self-identified alignment of their individual learning outcomes to the ILGs and report their contributions and student learning assessment findings related to that year's ILG.
KU Institutional Learning Goals Assessment
KU’s Institutional Learning Goals create a visible, conceptual structure around institutional assessment efforts and are an externalization of the university’s values around student learning. Reporting units have clearly articulated learning outcomes aligned to the institutional learning goals that are assessed on an annual basis. Comprehensive assessment for each area of assessment (KU Core 34, Degree Level and Cocurricular) take place on a four (4) year cycle. Through this process, units establish an assessment action plan that includes recommendations and action items focused on the improvement of student learning. During the years between comprehensive assessments, units provide annual updates on progress made towards the identified implementation and improvements. Comprehensive assessments occur the year prior to Academic Program Review to inform the Self Study Report.
| Programs | Creative Inquiry & Discovery | Effective Communication | Analytical Reasoning | Social Awareness & Cultural Diversity | Ethical & Professional Responsibility | Leadership & Collaboration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | 86.00% | 83.10% | 89.50% | 79.10% | 77.90% | 68.00% |
| UG Certificate | 91.3% | 69.6% | 73.9% | 43.5% | 39.1% | 43.5% |
| GR Certificate | 92.20% | 92.20% | 88.20% | 74.50% | 84.30% | 66.70% |
| Master's | 87.80% | 93.20% | 93.20% | 67.60% | 66.20% | 59.50% |
| Doctoral | 95.00% | 95.00% | 96.70% | 56.70% | 76.70% | 53.30% |