The POP score measures service. The Engaged Global Citizen measures the civic disposition behind it, across four dimensions, and sets each one against how much students say they value it. The distance between those two numbers is where most institutions find their work.
Each dimension is scored from students' own reports of their knowledge, their demonstrated skills, and their behaviors. Every item is answered on a zero to ten scale, and each dimension resolves to a percentage of its maximum.
Whether students work with people different from themselves, understand histories and beliefs other than their own, and can name the movements that shaped them.
Whether students use evidence, logic, and credible sources, and whether they engage opposing views to understand rather than to win.
Whether students vote, attend political events, or participate in organized efforts toward a public goal.
Whether students understand how power and privilege are distributed, and whether they act on that understanding.
The national EGC score is 60. The four dimensions beneath it vary more than the single number suggests, and regional differences are real.
Read together, the national pattern is consistent: students report valuing diversity and justice well above what their own behavior supports, while critical thought shows no distance between the two. Political involvement is the lowest score in the battery and the one most institutions are least prepared to discuss.
Regional overall EGC scores: Northeast 61, South 61, West 60, Midwest 55.
The POP score tells you how much service is happening. The EGC tells you what is underneath it. An institution with strong service in direct-need areas and a low political involvement score is looking at a service culture built on charity rather than public life, which is a different problem from simply serving less.
Taken together, the two answer the question a president is actually asked: whether the institution is producing graduates who serve, and whether it is producing citizens.
The Core and the EGC run in a single administration, on one schedule, at one price.
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