Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	80.87
Liaison	Megan Butler
Submission Date	Jan. 26, 2024

STARS v2.2

Macalester College
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	10.27 / 12.00	Megan Butler Sustainability Director Sustainability

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

167

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

25.75

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:

53.33

Research Inventory

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

Research_Inventory__STARS.xlsx

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:

The research inventory was conducted by collecting data from Academic Departments via a survey, surveying faculty members about their research, and going through the faculty website of each academic department to count the number of tenure track faculty members conducting research and identify faculty members that conduct sustainability research based upon their recent publications and research interests.

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Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

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