Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 55.77
Liaison Susan Kaspari
Submission Date July 16, 2022

STARS v2.2

Central Washington University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.62 / 12.00 Susan Kaspari
Professor
Geological Sciences
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
305

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
78

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
25.57

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
37

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
26

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
70.27

Research Inventory 

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

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
A list of all tenure/tenure track faculty was acquired from the office of the provost. Faculty in departments who would not be expected to conduct research were omitted from the tally (Music, Theatre Art, Art and Design). Non tenure track employees were not included in the tally because for most they do not have allocated time to conduct research. Some information on faculty conducting sustainability research was reported through the ADCO inventory that Provost Fellows Susan Kaspari and Heather Spalding conducted in conjunction with the sustainable course and learning outcomes inventory. Additional faculty conducting sustainability research was determined by doing searches in the Faculty 180 database. The remaining identification of faculty conducting sustainability research was determined by cross-referencing the 2019 STARS reporting, which was done primarily from pulling descriptions from department websites. A few additional faculty were identified as conducting sustainability research, primarily in Anthropology, Geography and Geology.

Optional Fields 

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