Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.25
Liaison Audrey McSain
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2020
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STARS v2.1

Lehigh University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.00 / 12.00 Alan Snyder
Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies
Research & Graduate Studies
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
540

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
110

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
20.37

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
32

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:
62.50

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:

Names will be requested from the deans of the respective colleges in future years.


A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

1.) surveying the deans to identify departments and professors engaged in sustainability research

The types of faculty included were all tenure track faculty and professors of practice.


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 (32) 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 (32) 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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