Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 57.31
Liaison Feng Teter
Submission Date Dec. 4, 2023

STARS v2.2

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

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.69 / 12.00 Feng Teter
Sustainability Analyst
Office of the Provost
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Total number of employees that conduct research:
212

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
35

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
16.51

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
71

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
15

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
21.13

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

An inventory of all research projects was obtained through the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. They highlighted research specifically related to sustainability, which can be seen in Column Q in the inventory sheet. The inventory lists principal investigators and departments involved for each research project, which we used to find the numbers reported here. Numbers listed in this reporting tool refer to approved projects for AY 2021-2022.


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

All projects identified in the submitted inventory are sustainability research projects. Projects that list a Dean's Office or Provost Office as the home department were excluded since the faculty/staff in those offices do not necessarily conduct the research. Even though there are about 43 projects listed in the inventory, some of the researchers are listed on more than one research project. We only count a specific faculty/staff member once to avoid double counting.


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