Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 49.37
Liaison Beth Klein
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2025

STARS v3.0

State University of New York at Cortland
AC-6: Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.45 / 10.00 Beth Klein
Professor and Sustainability Coordinator
Childhood Early Childhoon
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6.1 Percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research

Total number of academic departments engaged in research:
26

Number of academic departments engaged in sustainability research:
13

Annotated list or inventory of the institution’s sustainability research by department:
Description of the process used to identify the institution’s sustainability research:

Initially developed a list of full-time faculty that have shown interest in sustainability related activities and known sustainability scholars. Reviewed college documents that share faculty research projects, google scholar, research gate, etc. to confirm research projects related to sustainability.


The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:

Percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research:
50

Points earned for indicator AC 6.1:
4.45

6.2 Incentives for sustainability research

Does the institution provide incentives for academic staff to conduct sustainability research?:
No

Description of the sustainability research incentives for academic staff:

The campus has multiple faculty research incentive programs that support sustainability research, however, none solely support sustainability research.


Does the institution provide incentives for students to conduct sustainability research?:
No

Description of the sustainability research incentives for students:
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The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:

Points earned for indicator AC 6.2:
0

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