Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 57.84
Liaison Paul Edlund
Submission Date Feb. 19, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Montana State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.07 / 12.00 Mathew Bain
Intern
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1 

Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
981

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
107

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
10.91

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
34

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:
58.82

Research Inventory 

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 MSU Office of Research and Economic Development queried for research with "Sustainability" in it's description or listed as a keyword. In the future, researchers will be required to indicate whether or not their research is considered "sustainability" research to ensure a more accurate research inventory. This inventory also includes non-academic departments that conduct research or have a faculty or staff member who is conducting research. These departments are not included in Part 2 of this reporting field, but are listed in the attached research inventory.

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