Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 81.02
Liaison Sam Lubow
Submission Date June 29, 2016
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Stanford University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 Moira Hafer
Sustainability Specialist
Office of Sustainability
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
2,153

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
404

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
18.76

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
88

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
66

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
75

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:

Please see attached documentation, which includes information from both the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy faculty research databases, among others.


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

All tenure line faculty at Stanford conduct research. Sustainability researchers were evaluated on the implications of their research on future social, environmental, and economic well-being in society. Only tenure-track faculty currently doing research directly pertinent to sustainability outcomes were counted toward the total faculty performing sustainability research on campus. Information was ascertained on faculty research through databases maintained by the Woods Institute for the Environment, the Precourt Institute for Energy, and the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. Research from all other schools was also included by identifying departments that might include sustainability research and perusing the descriptions of each faculty member's research within that department to detect stated sustainability outcomes.

In terms of departments involved in sustainability research, a department was included in the total if:
i) One or more of the confirmed sustainability researchers is listed under that department; and/or
ii) One or more of the confirmed sustainability researchers is listed on the department website as a faculty or affiliate of that department.


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