Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.05
Liaison Juliana Goodlaw-Morris
Submission Date June 30, 2017
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STARS v2.1

California State University, San Marcos
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.90 / 12.00 Juliana Goodlaw-Morris
Sustainability Manager
Safety, Risk and Sustainability
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
186

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
31

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
16.67

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
31

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
19

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
61.29

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):
We used our registered researchers through our IRB process to determine total number of faculty/staff researchers. To determine number of academic departments (or equivalent) we reviewed all the departments the faculty/staff belonged to (within the IRB process), and only counted each academic department once. For the faculty/staff that conduct(ed) sustainability research we surveyed them and determined whether or not their research fit STARS criteria. Faculty/staff were only counted in this process. CSUSM prides itself on having a large number of students conduct research, and about half of the IRB results included students. We did not include students in this break down of researchers and departments. However, we did included Extended Learning (continuing education) and the Library (who have tenure-track faculty).

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