Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 79.37
Liaison Jillian Leach
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

California State University, Chico
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Sandrine Matiasek
Professor
Geological and Environmental Sciences
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Total number of employees that conduct research:
232

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
82

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
35.34

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
52

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
42

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
80.77

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

(attached)


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

The inventory was obtained by combining three sources of data:
1) List of submitted research proposals between 2018-2020 from Chico State Enterprises using sustainable development/diversity search criteria
2) List of research by Faculty Associates of the Center for Water and the Environment
3) Results from a December 2020 survey asking faculty and staff to self-identify if conducting (sustainability) research


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

This data represents funded research projects between 2018-2021.

CWE Faculty Associates: https://www.csuchico.edu/cwe/faculty-associates/index.shtml

Sustainability Research Survey: https://www.csuchico.edu/sustainability/_assets/documents/sustainability-research-chico-state-2021.pdf


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