Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 55.03
Liaison Sara McIntyre
Submission Date Aug. 10, 2022

STARS v2.2

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

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.03 / 12.00 Amy Turner
Director of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
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Total number of employees that conduct research:
159

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
35

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
22.01

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
37

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
14

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
37.84

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

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. In 2021, we utilized the survey from AASHE to incorporate a question regarding sustainability research and followed up with previous faculty from earlier submissions to determine if they still conduct sustainability focused or related research.


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:
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