Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	47.09
Liaison	Tom Hartzell
Submission Date	June 28, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Calvin University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	7.71 / 12.00	Becky Haney Associate Professor Economics

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Part 1

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):

240

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

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

Part 2

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

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

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

46.43

Research Inventory

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:

Calvin FAR Sustainability 2015-2016.pdf

The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

The list is available online from the Faculty Activity Reports: https://calvincollege.quickbase.com/db/bfvin7iyc?a=q&qid=335 [Accessed by going to this web page: https://calvin.edu/offices-services/provost/resources/faculty-resources/faculty-activity-reporting/report.html and then selecting 2015-2016 College-wide Sustainability FAR report.] NOTE: Faculty headcount (the denominator) is estimated based on previous year.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

All faculty are expected to self-report their scholarly activities and designate any of those activities that are related to sustainability.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The numbers provided for this credit were taken from the 2014-2015 FAR public reports. The total # of faculty (overall and then for Sustainability-related research) were taken from the totals line at the bottom of the report. To compute the department totals, the report was run for each of the three Divisions. The total line at the bottom of the report gave the number of departments. NOTE for next year these two major initiatives should be included/captured in our data: 1. Calvin has added a significant focus on sustainability research and applied scholarship. This was adopted and approaved in AY 2015-26 and began operations in summer of 2016 - The Clean Water Institute of Calvin College. 2. The Henry Institute of has also begun a major focus on water rights and land use/rights during AY2016-2017. Kevin den Dulk took a sabbatical in fall of 2016 to study these issues.