Overall Rating Reporter - expired
Overall Score
Liaison Kathleen Hilimire
Submission Date Feb. 1, 2021

STARS v2.2

Fort Lewis College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Kathleen Hilimire
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
144

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
31

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
21.53

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
20

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
14

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
70

Research Inventory 

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:
I emailed faculty (see below) and used self-reported blurbs about research. I also read faculty bios from the directory for tenured and tenure-track faculty and reported those blurbs as well: https://www.fortlewis.edu/academics/schools-departments/faculty-directory

On 2/3/20, I sent the following email: Dear faculty,

Please let me know if you conduct research that deals with topics of the environment or sustainability.

What?
If you are currently conducting research related to the environment and sustainability or have done so in the past three years, please send me a short blurb explaining the research (1-5 sentences).

When?
Send me your blurb by Friday, 2/7/20.

Why?
FLC is nationally recognized as a Princeton Review Green School. We receive points towards these accolades based on the number of faculty engaged with environmental and/or sustainability research. I will post the blurb you send me on the FLC sustainability website unless you ask me not to.

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:
These data are from February 2020.

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