Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.52
Liaison Alicia Hodenfield
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2021

STARS v2.2

Sonoma State University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.20 / 12.00 Alicia Hodenfield
Administrative Manager and Executive Assistant
Administration & Finance
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
68

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
46

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
67.65

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
30

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
12

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
40

Research Inventory 

A copy of the inventory of the institution’s sustainability research (upload):
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
There is a separate tab in the attached spreadsheet, "sustainability research" and these projects are also included in the tab of the source this information was provided.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
the Office of Research and Sponsored programs tracks all research funded through their office, the Center for Environmental Inquiry tracks all research requests and progress/completion of these projects and the department of Geography, Environment and Planning (GEP) provided their current and recently completed research projects. These three were cross referenced and any duplicates were deleted.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
http://orsp.sonoma.edu/ and https://cei.sonoma.edu/projects

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