Overall Rating	Bronze
Overall Score	31.92
Liaison	Tom Kovacs
Submission Date	Sept. 30, 2022

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Eastern Michigan University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	3.10 / 12.00	Thomas Kovacs Professor Geography and Geology

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

567

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

2.29

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

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

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

27.27

Research Inventory

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

AC9_Sustainability_Research.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

Information in File Upload

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

Survey sent out through Provost office followed up by targeted emails to faculty likely to participate in sustainability-related research. The total number of employees that conduct research are based on the number of tenure-track faculty. Sustainability research is based on the same definitions used for determining sustainability related courses (i.e. research that include 1 or more sustainability emphases and relate to a UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)).

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:

Faculty that conduct research are equal to the number of tenure or tenure-track faculty numbers for 2021 from the EMU Databook on EMU's Institutional Research and Information Management (IRIM) website.