George Washington University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

https://sustainabilitycollaborative.gwu.edu/research-faculty

The initial inventory was compiled by the Executive Director of the Sustainability Collaborative and the Research Director of Sustainability, both of whom are faculty members. This list was shared with the university-wide Faculty Sustainability Committee, whose members come from various schools and departments, and the Committee provided additional content. We also received input from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). Once the initial list was done, it was vetted. First, Deans and the Faculty Sustainability Committee reviewed it. Second,emails went out to all individual faculty on the list, asking for their confirmation or amendments to the phrase or key words used in the inventory to capture their research effort. The list was shared with all faculty who appear on the list so to help facilitate their interdisciplinary research efforts. GW defines departments as those divisions with a department chair. 52 is the number of GW departments excluding the medical school (and de facto excluding nursing, which does not have departments)

Data source(s) and notes about the submission (public): 1) The reported number of GW faculty engaged in research is for fiscal year 2018. Not all GW faculty engage in research. To determine the number of GW faculty engaged in research, we obtained the number of principal investigators with sponsored research from a database maintained by the Office of the Vice President for Research. We believe that there are more GW faculty engaged in research, but this was the only data source available to us. 2) We did not count adjunct faculty in the total number of faculty engaged in sustainability research. This is because of the magnitude of the search, our notion that many do not undertake research, and most importantly, because of the potential for these faculty to leave. Nevertheless, we have included a short list of adjunct faculty in the research inventory list because the Faculty Sustainability Committee felt that it was important to highlight their research and to facilitate connections between researchers. 3) Unlike 1.2 STARs this 2.1 version provides a definition of sustainability research. In reviewing this definition, the pan-university GW Sustainability Faculty Committee noted that the 2.1 definition focuses on “economic prosperity” without an explicit reference to the critical dimension of social equity. This was seen as a shortcoming and our faculty advise that it be amended in future iterations.