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Standard 2:
Achieving Educational Objectives Through
Core Functions
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2.6: The institution demonstrates that its graduates consistently
achieve its stated levels of attainment and ensures that its expectations
for student learning are embedded in the standards faculty use to evaluate
student work.
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UC Santa Cruz Summary of Evidence |
To demonstrate that our graduates fulfill our
expectations, UCSC has recently participated in a series of surveys to
measure students attainment and satisfaction relative to other national
research universities and to our sister UC campuses. The
National Study of
Student Engagement [NSSE], a well-designed survey instrument that follows
directly from the literature on student engagement, demonstrates that our
students are substantially more engaged than those in the national cohort
on such measures as hours of reading and studying and personal
acquaintance with instructors. The
University of California Undergraduate
Education Survey [SERU21] demonstrates that UCSC students report similar
aspirations and progress towards those aspirations as students at other UC
campuses, but UCSC students give higher assessments than at other campuses
on such factors as: active solicitation of feedback, political engagement,
advising, social and cultural environment, and overall academic
satisfaction. Our local survey of graduating seniors, administered for the first time in spring 2003, shows remarkably
high levels of satisfaction with most aspects of the Santa Cruz
experience (information from this survey will be included as part of the
WASC educational effectiveness review).
To illustrate the success of our graduates, we like to
point to a national study demonstrating that UCSC graduates matriculate in
graduate schools at a higher percentage rate
than any other public research university except UC Berkeley.
We would also like to reiterate that the UCSC
capstone requirement encourages students to demonstrate high-level mastery and
synthesis of undergraduate course work. This, and the high participation
rate of undergraduates in independent research, contributes to the success
of our students in their subsequent graduate education.
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