Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 64.13
Liaison Michael Kensler
Submission Date Feb. 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Auburn University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Sarah Hamilton
Associate Professor and Director
Academic Sustainability Program
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Total number of employees that conduct research:
1,571

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
400

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
25.46

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
59

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
53

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
89.83

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

A searchable, continuously updated database of all faculty engaged in sustainability research is available: http://acadsustain.auburn.edu/people/directory/. The attached research inventory reflects information in this database as of August 2021.


A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

The Director of the Academic Sustainability Program collected information about sustainability-related research projects of faculty using a combination of methods, including perusal of faculty biographies and research agendas for over one thousand faculty members; direct contacts with department chairs and the deans of all research-related academic units; and consultation with faculty representatives from each academic unit who serve on the Academic Sustainability Advisory Committee. Draft inventories of faculty and their interests are submitted biannually to deans and academic unit representatives for corrections and additions from their units. The faculty directory from which this inventory is compiled (available at http://acadsustain.auburn.edu/people/directory/) is continuously updated by the Director of the Academic Sustainability Program pursuant to new information.


Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Data on the total number of researchers at the University was compiled by the Office of Institutional Research. Job categories considered for the purposes of this calculation are include professors at all levels, extension specialists, instructors, and lecturers. Please note that instructors and lecturers do not have a research component to their positions, but they have been counted because many pursue a research agenda independently.


Data on the total number of researchers at the University was compiled by the Office of Institutional Research. Job categories considered for the purposes of this calculation are include professors at all levels, extension specialists, instructors, and lecturers. Please note that instructors and lecturers do not have a research component to their positions, but they have been counted because many pursue a research agenda independently.

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