What are Academic Learning Compacts?
Academic Learning Compacts (ALC) are written agreements that satisfy guidelines issued in 2004 by the State University System/Division of Colleges and Universities. The Academic Learning Compacts require each State University in Florida to identify, by academic program, what students will have learned by the end of their baccalaureate degree programs, and how that learning will be measured above and beyond course grades. ALCs answer three basic questions: What will students learn by the end of their academic programs? Have they learned what they have been taught by their professors? How do we measure these quantities? Each Academic Learning Compact will include statements of the core student learning outcomes in the areas of content/discipline knowledge and skills, communication skills, and critical thinking skills that program graduates will have adequately demonstrated prior to being awarded the baccalaureate degree.
