Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	53.15
Liaison	Sara McIntyre
Submission Date	Dec. 20, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Sewanee - The University of the South
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	9.39 / 12.00	Nick Cookson Sustainability Program Manager Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability

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Part 1

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

159

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

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

22.01

Part 2

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

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

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

42.42

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:

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The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:

School of Theology (1): Andrew Thompson Anthropology (2): Richard O'Connor Celeste Ray Art/ Art History (2): Greg Pond Pradip Malde Biology (6): Kristen Cecela Thea Edwards David Haskell Jon Evans Deb McGrath Kirk Zigler Chemistry (1): Emily White Economics (5): Stephen Ford Aaron Elrod Yasmeen Mohiuddin Marc St-Pierre Katherine Theyson English (1): John Gatta Environmental Studies (4): Sarah Sherwood Russell Fielding Daniel Carter Keri Watson Forestry and Geology (5): Ken Smith Martin Knoll Karen Kuers Scott Torreano Chris Van de Ven History (2): John Willis Roger Levine Politics (2): Scott Wilson Paige Schneider Psychology (2): Sherry Hamby Karen Yu Religion (1): Sid Brown Russian (1): Mark Preslar

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

In 2013, all of the department chairs were contacted by the Office of Sustainability, asking who in their department were conducting "sustainability-related" and "sustainability-focused" research. Once this list of potential candidates was known, we contacted individual faculty. In 2014, for STARS 2.0, new faculty were analyzed through the same method. And in 2018, for STARS 2.1, course offerings for the previous year were reviewed and research affirmed by faculty.

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