Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.76
Liaison Audrey McSain
Submission Date Nov. 16, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Lehigh University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.32 / 12.00 Delicia Nahman
Sustainability Officer
Office of Sustainability
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
498

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
83

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
16.67

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
37

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
20

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
54.05

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:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

The research inventory was compiled using several methods.
1.) Using an inventory of all currently sponsored projects and their titles to determine which were sustainability related
2.) Searching department websites to identify professors engaged in sustainability research
3.) Identifying sustainability research in Lehigh's Research Review http://www1.lehigh.edu/news/publications/research-review/vol-1-2016
4.) Contacting specific professors or departments


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:

Note that number of departments in the AC-1 section (31) differs from this section (37) due to some courses belonging to "interdepartmental programs", rather than a specific department, whereas in AC-9, faculty belong to specific departments. These courses are listed under department titles such as "Interdepartmental Arts" or "Interdepartmental Engineering" in AC-1


Note that number of departments in the AC-1 section (31) differs from this section (37) due to some courses belonging to "interdepartmental programs", rather than a specific department, whereas in AC-9, faculty belong to specific departments. These courses are listed under department titles such as "Interdepartmental Arts" or "Interdepartmental Engineering" in AC-1

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