Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.66
Liaison Enid Cardinal
Submission Date March 30, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Rochester Institute of Technology
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.19 / 12.00 Enid Cardinal
Senior Sustainability Advisor to the President
Office of the President
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
421

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
109

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
25.89

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
57

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

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
64.91

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):

A keyword search was utilized to sort through the university's research grant database. Keywords included: Environment, Ecology, Ecological, Sustainability, Sustainable, Social Responsibility, Socially responsible, Renewable, Energy, Social, Life cycle, Poverty, Community, Ecosystem, Climate change, Carbon, Waste, Water, Supply chain. Bios of the faculty from the list were then reviewed to ensure their research interests did in fact have a tie to sustainability.


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