Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	72.96
Liaison	Audrey McSain
Submission Date	Feb. 16, 2022

STARS v2.2

Lehigh University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	10.51 / 12.00	Ainsley Lamberton Administrative Director Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

453

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

16.11

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:

56.41

Research Inventory

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

2020-2021_Faculty_Sustainability_Research_Inventory.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

Several departments in the College of Engineering, opted to re-submit FY20 data. All other data is FY21.

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

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.

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:

This data was not impacted by COVID-19 and is representative of a normal year.

There are more faculty members doing sustainability research, but we only were able to get names and research interests for 73 of them.

It is important to note that number of departments in the AC-1 section (31) and PRE-5 (32) differs from this section (39) due to some courses belonging to "interdepartmental programs", rather than a specific department, whereas in AC-9, faculty belong to specific departments.