Gwynedd Mercy University 2025-2026 University Catalog 45
ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING
GMercyU is committed to providing quality education and to ensuring students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful. Assessment of student learning provides the information faculty and staff need to make improvements in program structure, course content, and pedagogy. To this end, information is collected at the course, program, and institutional levels. All student performance data are aggregated and confidential. For any questions related to the assessment processes, please contact the Director of Assessment and Continuous Improvement.
University Student Learning Outcomes
Continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students prepare for twenty-first century challenges by gaining or becoming:
ULO1. Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World: Through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.( Focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring.)
ULO2. Intellectual and Practical Skills, including: Inquiry and analysis; Critical and creative thinking; Written and oral communication; Quantitative literacy; Information literacy; Teamwork and problem solving.( Practiced extensively, across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance.)
ULO3. Personal and Social Responsibility, including: Civic knowledge and engagement— local and global; Intercultural knowledge and competence; Ethical reasoning and action; Foundations and skills for lifelong learning.( Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges.)
ULO4. Integrative and Applied Learning, including: Synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general and specialized studies.( Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems.)
ULO5. Immersed in the Critical Concerns of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas for: Women— advocating for the lives / rights of women; Earth— encouraging sustainable practices; Non- Racism— urging a dismantling of institutional racism; Immigration— supporting persons who have been displaced; Non-Violence— promoting peaceful discourse / discernment / decisionmaking.
- NOTE: For a full description of all Program-Level Learning Outcomes, see Program Information Pages.