College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University HLC Quality Initiative Summary Report

Authors

Kathryn A. E. Enke, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow
Shane Miller, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2017

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Higher Education

Abstract

This Quality Initiative (QI) sought to identify more systematically how the College of Saint Benedict (CSB) and Saint John’s University (SJU) structures, programming, curriculum, and environments promote or inhibit healthy gender development among CSB and SJU students. CSB, a Catholic Benedictine residential liberal arts college for women, and SJU, a Catholic Benedictine residential liberal arts college for men, share a common academic program, while maintaining separate residential life and student development offices. Gender is a central component of our missions. As single-sex institutions working in partnership with each other, we have a unique obligation and opportunity to focus on gender development. The project sought to 1. Examine the current status of gender development on campus; 2. Examine the impact of gender-related policies (or lack thereof) on gender development and gender inclusion on campus; and 3. Examine the gender development impact of several high impact academic programs. The project involved hundreds of CSB and SJU faculty, staff, and students across multiple disciplines and institutional areas in designing and conducting six distinct projects to address the research goals. The Primary Investigators (PI) established connections among the various projects and shared findings with internal and external communities throughout the course of the QI project.

Comments

Individual reports from each study are also posted. See:

LEARNING AND SEX: A Report on the Analysis of Single Sex Sections of First Year Seminars at CSB/SJU, 2014-15, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres and Sucharita Sinha Mukherjee

Transgender Policy and Practice Development for the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, Mary Geller and Doug Mullin OSB

Exploring Men’s Motivations for Studying, and not Studying, Abroad, Shane Miller

Sexual Misconduct Discourses within a Gendered Campus Environment, Kathryn A. E. Enke

Recommended Citation

Enke, Kathryn A. E. and Miller, Shane, "College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University HLC Quality Initiative Summary Report" (2017). Academic Affairs Publications. 1.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/academic_pubs/1