Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	67.63
Liaison	Konrad Schlarbaum
Submission Date	March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Colorado Colorado Springs
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.30 / 12.00	Jenny Russell Director of Institutional Research Institutional Research

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Part 1. Sustainability research

Total number of employees that conduct research:

244

Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:

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

11.48

Part 2. Sustainability research by department

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

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

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

46.34

Research Inventory

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

STARS_AC9_Info_v2_2.xlsx

Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:

See attached.

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:

UCCS Office of Institutional Research queried the Watermark database using a list of keywords compiled using the STARS definition of 'sustainability research.' Further verified numbers of employees, departments, and sustainability-specific research. Included faculty tenured and tenure track research only. Documentation of all research is attached.

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability research is available:

https://libguides.uccs.edu/sustainability

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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