Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 49.88
Liaison Karen Marin-Hines
Submission Date Feb. 29, 2024

STARS v2.2

Texas Tech University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.09 / 12.00 Karen Marin-Hines
Campus Sustainability Officer
Operations
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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:
1,626

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
385

Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
23.68

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
77

Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
49

Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
63.64

Research Inventory 

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

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Research projects with FY23 academic department personnel wages were reviewed and classified as sustainable based on a combination of title,
agency, federal assistance listing number description, and scope of work. Research inventory includes the principal investigator of each sustainable
research project along with any non-student personnel paid from these projects in FY23.

Optional Fields 

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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